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Bush -- the iraq war still in place, sanctioning, trying to put in place sanctions to keep other foreign actors usually from abusing our relationship with them. nuclear proliferation, again easy for me to say -- clinton did this in the middle of his first term saying, biological chemical and nuclear weapons are a huge danger to our country and to the world. we need to direct resources to deal with any americans who are working on proliferation. we need to cut that back. so, you know, theres all ...

Well have a lot more later in the program. joining us now with reaction to our top story, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is with us. kevin, lets start with the speaker of the house, lets start with the u.s. constitution article ii section 3, and your thoughts and interpretations. >> well, youre right, article ii section three says the president has to come and present to congress. since 1913, woodrow wilson, theres been 83 times -- not presidents, a number of times they came there to prese...

>> sean: explain what the privilege resolution does. that gives you the opportunity to get an up and down vote. >> it gives everybody an opportunity to vote for this. those democrat freshmen who do not like the action of what this speaker is taking -- ive heard from senior members of the democrats, the chair of agriculture committee, he said give trump the money. the arms services chair says walls work. even the number two steny hoyer believes in having a barrier or a wall. what speaker pelosi i...

President trumps radar, maybe the president would use that as a pretext to get rid of rod rosenste rosenstein. that will be the cynical version of what they are trying to do. they say of course that look, our concerns about rod rosenstein are very legitimate, it is true maybe that we are in the small minority in congress who feel this way, but we have legitimate concerns. >> and there is also the potential here for them to put paul ryan and others in leadership in a potentially tough position. t...

Bring it up in a privilege resolution. a privilege resolution says anybody at any time can bring up this issue and disapprove. i think there is a middle ground we can work there. also there is a provision which basically says if any russia energy interest has 1% of minority partnership in an energy company, our energy companies would be prohibited from being involved in that project, which would counteract russian energy in the market. i think theres ways to get this done and im extremely, extre...

Gentleman from california, mr. mccarthy, seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i offer a privilege resolution and ask for its immediate resolution. >> the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk will first number the resolution. >> house resolution 503 resolved that the clerk be instructed to inform the president of the united states that the house of representatives has elected paul d. ryan, a representative from the state of wisconsin, speaker of the house of representatives. >> without object...

Confederate battle flag emplem as part of its state flag will benny thompson doesnt fly that flag, even though hes a mississippi congressman. as mississippi debates changing their flag this year in the wake of the charleston massacre congressman benny thompson states he doesnt think the u.s. capital should fly that flag either not as long as it has that flag on it. democrats were so mad about republicans trying to put back up confederate flags in national parks that nancy pelosi stood up and put...

My understanding is democrats pulled the event, youre going to pull that bill, we want you to vote on taking down flags here in the u.s. capital that are state flags, like mississippi, for example, that bear the confederate symbol. whats going to happen with that? >> well, our hope is that the privilege resolution will get a hearing. representative thompson of mississippi files such a privilege resolution and followed by nancy pelosi who has a similar privilege resolution. my hope is well get a ...

To vote on taking down flags here in the u.s. capital that are state flags, like mississippi, for example, that bear the confederate symbol. whats going to happen with that? >> well, our hope is that the privilege resolution will get a hearing. representative thompson of mississippi files such a privilege resolution and followed by nancy pelosi who has a similar privilege resolution. my hope is well get a hearing and this will be resolved that this should not continue. we have come a long way in...

Lets do this as a privilege resolution. lets vote on it now. goes right to the house. lets vote on it. lets see how many republicans vote to keep this confederate flag flying. john boehner and other republican house leadership freaked out. the last thing they want is all the republicans in the house going on record with their vote in favor of or against the confederate flag. thats the last thing they want in the world. republican house leadership freaked out and said, no, no, lets get rid of thi...