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Bidens build back better act. it includes universal pre-k, paid family leave, a cap on medicare costs and immigration reforms. all of it accomplished by democrats, no help from republicans. instead of working with dems to make all of that possible for the american people, minority leader kevin mccarthy decided to do whatever he could to derail the bills passage. how? by giving a record-breaking nearly nine-hour floor speech, among the longest and arguably most rambling recitals in history. >> th...

Medicare costs and immigration reforms. all of it accomplished by democrats, no help from republicans. instead of working with dems to make all of that possible for the american people, minority leader kevin mccarthy decided to do whatever he could to derail the bills passage. how? by giving a record-breaking nearly nine-hour floor speech, among the longest and arguably most rambling recitals in history. >> theyre big carrots and they chop them and charge you more and you buy them. >> however, m...

>> mat schlapp, the chairman of the american conservative union. very close to donald trump. member of the george w. bush political team. he says its a gift because donald trumps want to run against washington again. in order to do that, in other words, to run against washington, not only does he want to run against democrats, he wants to run against republicans a bit. if you look at his 2016 campaign, he said he was going to clean up washington. he basically gutted the republican party to do it...

Dig into some of this. mat schlapp is the chairman the american conservative union. matt, good to see you. >> good to be with you again. >> paul ryan is a fund-raising machine. >> he is. >> thats something that is important. is that going to continue? can he continue to raise money for republicans if hes resigning? >> well, inthe bigger impact for paul ryan is he has been a thought leader for a hoang item. he and i were actually staffers together a long time ago in the house of representatives. ...

Anybodys words is really being disingenuous as to the tone and content of the entire event and being quite disrespectful to the people who were in the room. who are really the ones speaking. [applause] sean kellyanne conway lets give her a big cpac welcome. we appreciate it coming up, new developments on the phony anti-trump clinton bought and paid for dossier, sara carter, gregg jarrett, mat schlapp all with us. stay with us. ♪ ♪ this is something that im

>> all right. gentlemen, thank you for presenting both sides of this. i appreciate it. good to have you tonight. another topic that needs our attention. the president says americans are dreamers too. what did that mean? how did that line land with people? that is something that needs to be debated. we have two great people. navarro and schlapp.

Of every elected official in this chamber is to defend americans. to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the american dream. because americans are dreamers too. >> all right. we can take it a lot of ways. the american dream. if you want it youre a dreamer. but, how are americans like this one group of people were talking about who are in so much jeopardy right now? ana navarro. we have political and mat schlapp former political director for president george...

Have the right to do that. if you want. >> he certainly has the right. had e created the deadline. lets get to the bigger question. about what hes saying about citizen ship. everybody is devices will be hot with the drama going on in the political right. somewhere steve king where ever he is. and jim jordan and the right of the gop are screaming about this. lets get going. cnn political ana navarro and mat schlapp. path to citizen ship. how will that play? >> this is all very dicey. as we know w...

That, number one, i qudo not age with you on that. second thing, its a negotiation. both sides are going to get to say whats acceptable, whats not acceptable. >> i dont disagree with that. >> ana is right, theres a real question with conservatives like myself about what the final package looks like. i think its a very live wire. this very easily might not happen because they dont strike the right balance. by the way, on immigration, its almost impossible to find that balance. i give the presiden...

Abby: wasnt it 2015 when our own sean hannity interviewed donald trump then and even asked about 2016. thats when he said yeah, im actually really considering making run a for it a lot of interesting history with cpac. you mentioned the big talk was this is our time we won this election. the vice president last night gave a warning of like we have got work to do. steve: yeah. abby: he said we cannot blow this time. yes, we won this election but we have got to keep working hard for this. pete: sp...