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The biggest threat to the united states. russias economy is the size of frances. >> tucker: texas. >> cmon! now russia and china are doing military exercises and we are on sideline going okay, we have to act really mean on everything with russia because of the mueller investigation. it had a profound policy effect i think on the government. >> tucker: yes. >> and we will never know really the effect on the american people, the geopolitical position. that must be examined. >> tucker: on the socia...

Were just trying to get that pushed through. >> ive heard you speak on this and passion nall about helping those who continue to live impacted by the toxins of those days following 9/11, firefighters, policemen and women. how will this bill help them? >> thank you for having me. im passionate because people are sick and dying. ive been to 181 funerals. the pain, the struggle. the fight is real. when this went into effect the conversations are now do i put gas in the car or do i put food on the t...

He says dont be silly but adds, you started it. and who cares democracy is broken? it took dealt la just six days. by removing a tax break from the airline. still no word out of washington on when well see legislation to make schools safer. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to le"the lead." chaos has been part of how donald trump has run his businesses, how he ran the country. is there something boris this weeks maelstrom? an ally of the presidents tells gloria borg per this past week has been...

Its just deja vu. i cant tell you how many times ive been on shows like this after a mass shooting, having conversations about the politics and what happens next. frankly, we all know what happens next. thats the only policy response from the government is to lower the flags at half-mast. we know that congress is not going to do anything. there wont be a policy response in washington. you know, whats worse than that, don, i was reading a study from harvard business school in 2016, they studied t...

>> and what would be -- i guess, can you give an example of something that happened, where reconciliation was not allowed because of this byrd rule that someone tried? so we have a real-world example. >> well, one issue that i remember very well was in 1995 when they had a very large reconciliation bill. and there was a provision that was in that bill, which provided that no federal funds could be used for abortions. it was my view that that violated the byrd rule, even though it did score, it w...