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"deadline" right now. ♪♪ hi there, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. the gop is entrenched in another civil war today, this one intrastate, not intrachamber, but gop versus gop all the same. in one corner the talented mr. ripley of kevin mccarthys house republican conference, and in the other his hometown republican detractors who say he should resign for telling, quote, lie after lie. the second political thrilla in manila political-style duel isnt at all how the republicans plann...

And so over and over and over again, this entire city is hearing these thunderous booms from the sky. This is reality for People Living here, and then the response often is airstrikes in gaza. Now though things seem to be a bit different because as israel prepares for a Ground Incursion, it just has been more quiet in gaza than we have seen right now. We have seen a bit of black smoke coming from gaza today, but in the very beginning, i mean, it was fearsome, it was terrifying with the airstrike...

>> when john boehner was speaker, and there were situations like this, what he would do is bring the member into his office and say either you leave on your own volition, or i will have you removed. thats not -- thats a very far cry from where we are today. i guess i would say a few things. the media climate is different and the whole host of other things are different. i think donald trump and his ability to stay on the stage for as long as he did probably contributed to this, but, no, this has...

Evidence out there on that particular issue. >> why doesnt it matter enough for them to weigh their vote differently? >> because of the consequence of what, at the time, of a hillary clinton presidency and its effect on them and their family directly. and i think its one of those things which is an indirect, just like bill clintons activities in the white house as democrats looked at it, was an indirect annoyance or problem or ethical lapse, but it didnt directly affect their families. and thats...

It was a plus. but they lied about it. the credibility matters. the obama example is a distraction. this is not a morality argument. nobody cares about the stormy daniels affair. its whether he lied about it and whether he broke the law. >> the president did not break the law. >> we do not know that. >> i think we do know that. >> how do you know that? they changed the story three times. which do you believe? >> lets see how the facts unfold. but it is my opinion analyzing the facts they didnt b...

Like china look at themselves in the mirror, if you will, and continue to support a regime that brutally starves its own people that puts them in forced labor camps that tortures political prisoners. how can you continue to support that regime, not only from a political security standpoint but from a moral argument standpoint? whether that lands here in china, whether that changes things at all, thats to be seen, it probably wont. but that gives maybe a glimpse into donald trumps thinking, what ...

Are out defending your fill loss, if i it has got nothing do with that, it has got to do with vengeance and going to be great to watch. >> let me bring in our nbc news political director chuck todd who has just interviewed newt gingrich on this very subject. chuck? >> i did. and a few things i asked him in particular, this idea that you know, youre sounding like a democratic talking point, sounding like president obama and he made a morality argument. first of all, he said, number one, i dont wa...

Who i think was unreliable from the get-go. he told the story initially that he made tea for the warring factions, calmed everybody down. only later that his story has been enhanced to include the argument on the after deck of the boat. and the suspicion in his mind that r.j. was responsible. >> bill: this is the guy causing the cops to reopen it? this captain? >> the book ironically. >> bill: there is a book. >> ironically was written in 2009. >> bill: by whom? >> published by the captain. >> b...

Who i think was unreliable from the get-go. he told the story initially that he made tea for the warring factions, calmed everybody down. only later that his story has been enhanced to include the argument on the after deck of the boat. and the suspicion in his mind that r.j. was responsible. >> bill: this is the guy causing the cops to reopen it? this captain? >> the book ironically. >> bill: there is a book. >> ironically was written in 2009. >> bill: by whom? >> published by the captain. >> b...

Their bill, as theyve designed it now, in its most optimistic form, would leave another 15 million, 20 million people without any insurance at all, and so all those same sob stories will exist after this bill takes full effect. so it seems like they couldnt really embrace the morality argument because in their moral choice, they were leaving out about half the people. >> yeah. they should have started with single payer. i mean, even if they werent going to get it, it is what most other western d...