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Spending. border security, coal miners get an increase in healthcare and pensions the national institutes of health get $2 billion of additional funds and money to help police protecting the trump family in new york. no cuts to sanctuary cities, no cuts to planned parenthood. with me now rachel campos-duffy and jessica tarlov. good to see you both. i want to play a sound bite on how charles krauthammer things. >> trump and the republicans got rolled. they ended up with nothing really. there is n...

Work. >> so hes addressing you there, hes addressing your former colleague there and you want to hear him address miners directly today at his campaign rally. what do you make of what he said there? >> you know what, as of right now, we still have a panel that are laid off but 100 days isnt very long. i mean, i hope and pray that what he does with the regulations will lead to the coal companies hiring more miners. but right now theres over 20,000 of us that will lose our health care and -- at th...

The nuclear option. now you need a simple majority in order to confirm supreme court justices. really important cases coming up in the next several months on religious liberty, immigration, counsel for people on death row, as well as security issues when it comes to pensions paid all of those cases will finally get excited. >> kimberly: greg, your thoughts. >> greg: i think youre missing the biggest story. they finally have a full nine which means softball. they have been waiting to fill out the...

>> in terms of whats happening in parliament, we know that parliament has not been suspended for the day. we know the prime minister and the chancellor was in the houses of parliament when it happened. >> we can talk to someone who saw the prime minister being taken away. andrew bridge and, mp joined us right now. what did you see? >> we were just on a division, so the lords amendment to the pensions, there is a series of votes. we were very close with a lobby voting behind the prime minister in...

By the countries that went bankrupt and make sure those countries get the pensions and the health care that they desperately need. [ applause ] >> so since youre working in the mines and coal is a boom bust business, folks agree with that, right? >> yes. >> times get good, people get flush, people get jobs, everyone goes under, right, comes back. theres always that sense that maybe its going to come back. do you think that the president could get the mines opening again? can you imagine a future...

>> yeah. of course i do. these guys are heroes. how many of them -- and by the way, while were talking about the issue, you may know, phil, that right now there are tens of thousands of coal miners who were promised health care when they retired, whose families were promised pensions and got a congress, including senator mcconnell from the coal state of kentucky, which is holding up legislation to make sure these families have the health care and the pensions that they were promised. so -- if yo...

Way, while were talking about the issue, you may know, phil, that right now there are tens of thousands of coal miners who were promised health care when they retired, whose families were promised pensions and got a congress, including senator mcconnell from the coal state of kentucky, which is holding up legislation to make sure these families have the health care and the pensions tt theyere prised. so -- if you think about all of the mines who suffered and died from black lung disease or all o...

These guys are heroes. how many of them -- and by the way, while were talking about the issue, you may know, phil, that right now there are tens of thousands of coal miners who were promised health care when they retired, whose families were promised pensions and got a congress, including senator mcconnell from the coal state of kentucky, which is holding up legislation to make sure these families have the health care and the pensions that they were promised. so -- if you think about all of the ...

Promises that were made to them by the countries that went bankrupt and make sure those countries get the pensions and the health care that they desperately need. [ applause ] >> so since youre working in the mines and coal is a boom bust business, folks agree with that, right? >> yes. >> times get good, people get flush, people get jobs, everyone goes under, right, comes back. theres always that sense that maybe its going to come back. do you think that the president could get the mines opening...

Campaign promise. >> greg: there is no way you can be reversed santa claus. >> dana: the federal government, the actual workforce, has been flat for the last 20 years. to bobs point, its hard to make additional cuts. one thing that will definitely end up with fewer people is the number of federal employees that will retire in the coming years is high but that means they will get their pensions. then you have to figure out, make sure youre funding it. a good solution for some of these jobs could ...