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Day. nobody is being excluded based on gender. write about what is actually happening. were having a discussion about the real issues. >> privately separate republicans say not a woman or women was an unforced error, shep. >> shepard: mike, some democrats are just about as critical as this bill as the house democrats were. >> thats right. theyre picking apart the bill that passed in the house and calling ate broken promise to working people. a key democrat just moments ago called it scary. >> a ...

Doing, quite frankly, her presentation was elegant. >> right. >> it wasnt unmeasured. it was invoking history. >> right but we are not talking about her -- >> jeff session has a very, id say, controversial history. >> we are talking about -- yeah, but -- come on. they have worked with him. >> given the muslim ban. >> my dear friend from alabama, my buddy from alabama, oh, jeff session, my good friend. we are here with jeff sessions -- and then, suddenly, he is appointed. he is a bigot and despit...

Has done is its just made democrats more emboldened to continue to fight the trump cabinet nominees and also the trump and republican agenda. >> leigh ann, thank you. with me, a member of the intelligence committee and homeland security committee. nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> the issue, what happened last night with elizabeth warren, would you have shut her down? >> its not a matter of shutting her down but build comedy again. a rule affectionally called rule 19, you can impugn anoth...

He is going to go down that and he walks in and it is his. kellyanne conways and he owns it. whatever decisions they make they will have to live with. >> downside gets interesting. you remind us all, crisis does not announce itself. george w. bush, none of us god forbid saw 9/11 or katrina coming. the presidency is a long grind and thats what you have seen up close. how will he handle consoling americans, reading letters from americans who dont like him or agree with him and what you call the se...

It. whatever decisions they make they will have to live with. >> downside gets interesting. you remind us all, crisis does not announce itself. george w. bush, none of us god forbid saw 9/11 or katrina coming. the presidency is a long grind and thats what you have seen up close. how will he handle consoling americans, reading letters from americans who dont like him or agree with him and what you call the set pieces. summits and six-nation tours of africa and europe. >> what we have seen for pre...

In the future are hurt. thats hagels position. so, theyre working on it. theyre going to start making phone calls as soon as today or tomorrow to the employees and try and get as much of the defense department as they can back on the job as early as they can. don? >> barbara starr at the pentagon, barbara, thanks, as always. and next up, the white house. president obama took aim at house speaker john boehner today saying boehner could end this shutdown right now. cnns jill dougherty has the ve...

It is raw. but they also need the resources to do it. is it an easy thing to do? >> it is a relatively easy thing to do. you can find instructions for how to do this on a bunch of web sites. its not perfect. as we snaw in 2010? times square, it can fail. one of the beauties of this device is its simplicity. if you do it right, it is going to explode. its not going to blow down buildings but can do damage to people. >> on capitol hill, federal officials are resesting a letter sent to senator roge...

the republican candidates take the stage in this, their last face-off before the florida primarily. ill moderate tonights republican debate right here on cnn. everyones talking about the tension on the tarmac. in your face airport encounter between arizonas republican governor. what was that all about? and newt gingrich vows to establish a permanent colony on the moon. will that idea take off with voters? im wolf blitzer on the campus of the university of north florida in jackson...

Support family network that some of them have and thats why organizations like the american legion, soldiers angels, books for soldiers and other groups are there to make sure that none of these soldiers go without packages, particularly during the christmas season. >> you were deployed before, mark, what does it mean? >> it means a lot to get -- to get packages, you know, when youre in bosnia or afghanistan like i was, there are times when you have, you know, a lot of time on your hands with no...

Without funding, it is not their own fault. we were on the floor of the house reading letters from people who indicated ive lost a job not through the fault of my own. those who are working, this payroll tax, for example, will put 1,000 or $1500 in the pockets of 160 million americans and frankly i dont want to call a democratic proposal, martin. but a realistic proposal was proposed by the democratic senators, and its an easy fix. it is a small percentage surtax on the top 1%, 300,000 persons n...