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andrea mitchell picks up with news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the debt ceiling legislation clears the house with a bipartisan vote. a showdown in the senate starting today. a handful of senators in both parties demanding amendments that could delay final passage past mondays default did the line unless leaders can win agreement to overcome their objections. >> time is a luxury the senate does not have. if we want to prevent default. any needless delay or last-...

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Be speaker, will come in with her own agenda and her own priorities and her own sense of whats important and it wont be the same as donald trumps. and why would she at this point take anything mick mulvaney says as holy writ or indeed any deal that gets negotiated as holy writ given donald trumps record of simply going back on deals that everybody else thinks are made deals? and so i dont quite -- to me that is the huge stumbling point to anything. theres no incentive for democrats to move knowi...

Correct that nancy pelosi will be speaker, will come in with her own agenda and her own priorities and her own sense of whats important and it wont be the same as donald trumps. and why would she at this point take anything mick mulvaney says as holy writ or indeed any deal that gets negotiated as holy writ given donald trumps record of simply going back on deals that everybody else thinks are made deals? and so i dont quite -- to me that is the huge stumbling point to anything. theres no incent...

Gene, you see the numbers there. and the caucus saying until hell literally freezes over. >> right. so i think youre analysis is correct that nancy pelosi will be speaker, will come in with her own agenda and her own priorities and her own sense of whats important and it wont be the same as donald trumps. and why would she at this point take anything mick mulvaney says as holy writ or indeed any deal that gets negotiated as holy writ given donald trumps record of simply going back on deals that ...

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