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is going to be a permanent member of this team. well see. and so that is what theyre working on now. >> and kaitlan, judge cannon, we should point out, shes a trump appointee. she did a trump-friendly ruling that was overturned months ago. i know that there are people on the prosecution team who are wary of her. how does the trump team view her? do they think that shes going to be an asset? >> theyre thrilled. i mean, they could not be happier to have her on their team -- or to have he...

Lemon controversy to a big and Important Supreme Court case. Thats coming up. Stay with me for that. While our top story right now are the new developments in the first criminal trial of a former president. This is now under two weeks away and a Judge Toughening the gag order for defendant trump and rebuking his efforts to as they put it, inject fear into the trial while attacking family members. They discuss the threats to the case. This is a response in part to the d. A. Prosecuting trump and ...

states senate today, senate majority leader chuck schumer is going to join us. and rachel, this new information tonight, the new tape of donald trump making a call to georgia to an election official, this one before christmas. so earlier than the one that we already heard is just such stunning additional information about what was clearly an ongoing campaign to try to change the result of that election. and as you point out, he seems to cross the legal line repeatedly in these phone ca...

and as you point out, he seems to cross the legal line repeatedly in these phone calls. >> and it also fills in some of the pieces about who was involved in this campaign and what the pattern of corrupting events were. again, this may be a racketeering investigation in georgia based on actions and statements from the district attorneys office. but the white house chief of staff really did turn up bodily in person, surprise, at the audit in georgia when they were auditing the absentee b...

Or are your hands completely tied because youre in the minority? >> well, no, we are in the minority but our hands are not tied. first of all, if you know about appropriations bills, they have to pass in the house. they have to pass in the senate. there needs to be republicans and there needs to be democrats. its bipartisan, bicameral. and then the president signs it. if we dont get that kind of cooperation the president will not sign the bill. its probably one of the only pieces of legislation ...

Or take governing process hostage and hurt. the american people and the citizens and everyone who relies on them to do certain things. he tries out and folds on it. take a long a him right after the election. >> do you expect that when the democrats take over the chairmanship, youll get hit with a blizzard of subpoenas, from the investigation to your cell phone use to your tax returns. >> then youre going to, if that happens, then well do the same thing and government comes to a halt. >> governm...

Shutdown. he derailed it with his tweets and with the shithole comments last week, and that blew everything up. and democrats saw an opportunity to use that for political leverage to try to get something on daca, thinking that republicans would get the blame for the shutdown because in the past, they have. i think that theyre overplaying their hand at this point. the cnn polling today, i think, was very revealing, showing that the majority of americans cared more about stopping the government fr...

Next ten years, that ends up being about $10,000 in additional tax savings per taxpayer. its a big, big reduction in individual rates and goes at the problem of those people in high tax states lowering their expected tax liability. >> neil: do you think people that pay no income tax should get a break? i ask, senator, because marco rubio is a fan of increasing the child care credit. with $1,000, its north of 1,600. he wants it at $2,000. say what you will and a box of money to the federal govern...

Democrats wont let another appropriations bill in the senate except the one that they want, so consequently they take the entire process hostage, and thats what causes the shut dow down. i just have to tell you, shannon, if everybody else could forget everything else i say in this interview, if we are going to drain the swamp in washington, we have to pull the plug on the senate filibuster. it is the only hope for us to get accountable clarity in our appropriations process. >> shannon: something...

Presumably to subdue what the suspect is. >> what do you make of his response? you heard what noah said, and the press core was brought out as if was over and he was done. he took a minute and a half and he is back onstage, back on his rally speech. >> i thought it was a great impromptu moment for him. he said nobody said it was going to be easy for us, and he went right back into his speech, not all of it on prompter and then unfortunately right after started talking about the sequestration pro...