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>> needed on both sides for sure. for the white house a tough balancing act. these are maybe the only people you were really negotiate with. same time youre really trying to run them out of town. i think the issue for the white house, though, in terms of the squeeze and change strategy, in order to win these seats you have to have a good amount of political talent. right? so they are used to being able to, i think, command the right voters and being able to strike this balance. >> and one more w...

Russians in europe. is it because they think that you would have to have u.s. teams on the ground then because of the logistic challenges and refueling challenges that that would cross a line or the united states needs a more modern tank? >> from the u.s. perspective and heard a version of it it is that these are big, heavy, expensive gas guzzling logistical nightmares that involve a trained crew but everything you need to support and maintain it on the battlefield. thats a key point. what is ea...

>> i think from the white house perspective, though, they feel like they still have a few months, and if they keep spelling out catastrophic consequences it puts it on congress and the new republican majority to act and do something so i think were going to hear a lot of things like what brian deese said. >> so is there an off-ramp? joe manchin is on the ballot in 2024. kyrsten sinema is on the ballot. do more moderate centrists in the senate find some way to do a modest spending reduction and t...

No response there. that is the height of irresponsibility by kevin mccarthy. he could have put her on house administration. there is many committees you can plug someone like her where she cant do real damage but rena showed there is a danger element here with george santos, foreign adversaries would be champing at the bit to exploit. when youre this caught up in legal woes, you dont have an off ramp and this makes you susceptible to blackmail. shes somebody as well. shes not demonstrated the ju...

Peace, we have to use other tools in our tool kit. to be sure, we got a violent -- im not going to be content until chicago is the safest big city in the country. we make meaningful progress year over year. bringing down homicides. 14%. shootings, 20%. carjackings down. 10%. we wont rest until people feel safe because they are safe. that means weve got to use other tools like -- making investments. doing developments. mental health. support. affordable housing. the things that create opportunity...

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Carefully as people start looking for an off ramp to this chaos were seeing unfold in the house. >> ali, if that were to happen, and remind people where mccarthy was back in 2015, 2016, when this similar fight was going down. >> mired in a different position in the caucus. jordan wasnt on his side at that point. i think brendan is right. the goal posts have seemed to move here multiple times. i think one of the key takeaways from this morning as we heard people like scott perry and lauren bobert...

Here? >> well, gaetz was always a never mccarthy, and he will stay that way, but scott has been outspoken on fox news and you heard him there just now, and he didnt say i will never vote for kevin mccarthy, and theres a potential for the reality that maybe if you dont want to vote yes for mccarthy, you vote present and that changes the magic number mccarthy has to count to, and it could be an off-ramp there, and this is not the kind of press conference you want if you are kevin mccarthy on the a...

Its a move that would weaken the speaker and make it easier to oust members. mccarthy holding to a compromise in his words of that being five members who could ban together to oust a speaker, but thats not what conservatives want. they want it to be one single member who could trigger that motion to vacate the chair. thats one of the sticking points here. but again, this first ballot was unsurprising. we always knew mccarthy was going to lose that one. the second one was going to be challenging,...

The united states. to do so would be suicidal. thats one of the things important for us to convey to them, to pyongyang, that our commitment to our treaty ally in south korea is rock-solid, that includes conventional and nuclear forces. he crosses any of those lines, he can count on a destructive response. but if he doesnt, we need to try and lower the tensions, use diplomacy to give him any kind of an off-ramp, and a reason not to be so fearful that he will get attacked and that he expands this...