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Cheers: To the musical legacy and more left behind by the legendary Lofton “Coffee” Butler, who passed away this week at 93. From his early musical beginnings in the Southernmost

The agent wrote: I’m saddened to write this because I’m a proponent of free speech and have been brought up to allow everyone to have their say. But I also realize that there are other considerations that institutions are faced with. This afternoon I was contacted by the University of Michigan instructing me to withdraw their invitation due to the removal of funding from the donors, because of their interpretation of Ms. Walker’s comments regarding Israel. They are Not willing to fund thi...

Week on a resolution, and they have the votes to turn back this national emergency, but not to override a veto. they keep pointing out the fact that president obama had executive orders, but did president obama ever assert a national emergency based on this? >> no. the thing that they keep glossing over is that there were national emergencies -- i think there are still over 30 ongoing national emergencies. but what president obama -- and i dont think any other president ever did since the nation...

$32 trillion for medicare for all. are they vulnerable on this.? >> it does make it difficult to push back on things where theyre talking out of both sides of your mouth. easier to be a fiscal hawk when youre not in charge of the purse string. it is a challenge for republicans to come up with that positive agenda that does demonstrate the fiscal responsibility they talk about. >> dana: zach, how much is the energy on the left, progressive side of the democratic party going to cause headaches or ...

Security for a border wall. they couldnt accept that money without an act of congress authorizing it. there is a reason for that. you dont want any rich person to control what government is spending without any accountability from the legislators branch, thats the reason congress has the power of the purse string. no, this is unrealistic and viable. >> this is why i love the internet, in addition to go fund me, others have it to build an escalator over the wall. >> ladders. >> ladders over the w...

Republican leadership needs to get on board with that wall because they control the purse string. they control the legislative agenda. we must have a wall and i think after this kate steinle verdict of last week, it is going to be the impetus to get this done. im hopeful that the wall, building the wall, theme funding of the wall will be something that will be in our budget for next year 2018. >> tucker: that is kind of t the question for you. so there are members of the republican leadership wh...

Republican leadership needs to get on board with that wall because they control the purse string. they control the legislative agenda. we must have a wall and i think after this kate steinle verdict of last week, it is going to be the impetus to get this done. im hopeful that the wall, building the wall, the funding of the wall will be something that will be in our budget for next year 2018. >> tucker: that is kind of the question for you. so there are members of the republican leadership who ar...

More women consume wine than men. were looking at two industries. wine and beer. we know that beer is $240 billion. so if were not improving the jobs for young americans, what happens to that industry? because they are doing well in places like china. >> well, the interesting thing -- im going to get back to your question in one second. >> sure. >> while men drink more beer, men have been drinking less beer over time as have women. weve been switching more to wine and weve been switching more to...

Stop working until i get something. im going to shut down the whole plant until i get something. you get fired. >> so, hes against strikes. who knew? all the people that supported him, he was against them. >> who knew? >> so earlier i pointed out that government is working exactly the way its supposed to. in article one, sections 1, 2, 3 of the constitution, founding fathers outlined the house of representatives were the population to hold the purse string. senators were elected in states that h...

Republicans should reject it. do you want to respond? >> i dont want to shut down the government. i dont think many of my republican colleagues do. we want to give the senate, ted cruz, lee, these guys have been asking for a bill, attached to the cr, that would defund obama care. they asked for it, we gave it to them. lets see them deliver. >> if they dont, what are you going to do? what if they send you back legislation a continuing resolution that will fund the government, they send it back to...