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And its repleat with examples. why because when they saw an obstacle in their path, still allowing the fillbuster to stay in place, they made practical changes to get things done. sometimes on small things and sometimes on really, really big things. like supreme court justices, which mitch mcconnell did, like the bush and trump tax cuts, the trump tax cuts, the recent ones for the wealthy, all on 51-vote margins. >> senator klobuchar, you have been telling this history in various ways throughout...

His parents said past the statue of liberty, and he came in to save it all those years later. congressman dan kildee of michigan, a member of the house ways and budget committee, and democratic whip. thank you so much for being with us this morning, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. >> you are sitting in the state of michigan, your thoughts on the life of lee iacocca, a man who had a big impact on your state. >> it felt like he was always around and always doing big things. he was a ...

Information from the administration. when you have an administration that just says no to subpoenas, as though they are, you know, just whispered suggestions and refuses to comply with requests like this, you have your lawsuit, well see where that goes, but it seems to me that our system was actually quite dependent on people being honorable people who complied with these things, even they werent forced to. what recourses do they have that are more extreme than requests and subpoenas, do you nee...

President trump plans to hold a campaign rally two weeks from today in north carolina, and it happens to coincide with a highly anticipated event. president trumps rally is scheduled for the same day as the testimony of former special counsel robert mueller before the house judiciary and house intelligence committees. kristen soltis anderson, not surprised by this, the president has made a practice of counter programming. >> absolutely. recall back during the primary debates on the republican si...

So this is a moral crisis of our time, a part of it at least. so we need to respond to it accordingly. >> yeah, i think youre absolutely right, professor. there are two more things i want to lean into that you said. julian castro, section 1325, the decriminalizing of the migrant is what basically is happening, and the reason julian castro brought that up is because of the zero tolerance, is because of the separation of family, is because what we have been seeing with kids in cages and one of the...

The supreme court mostly gave his administration a win, right up until the last point. the supreme court held that, yes, the administration or the government has the ability to include more than just head count type questions. they can ask questions about other things beyond just getting a number of people who live in the united states. we use the census for different things but ultimately at the end, the court concluded that, well, you know, your reason for giving is isnt so great, so were goin...

Put together with the story about the facebook group reported to be border patrol agents and put together now with the inspector generals report from the department of homeland security have painted a bleak picture and literally we are seeing photographs and pictures from inside the cells. does this change the conversation? does this moved the needle? does this improve things because so far that kind of attention hasnt done anything down at the border. >> you make a great point. now that were se...

You still have for the most part, the same kind of first and second tier of candidates that you had before. the top five is still mostly the top five. none of the sort of 1% candidates had a breakout moment but in that top five, things have been shaken up in a way that has got to be making kamala harris and elizabeth warren pretty happy. >> we talked about this in miami, which is for those of us in the political world, we know a lot about these candidates, we know where they stand. we think we u...

Dossier in the fisa applications>> there is also the possibility that somebody else who was in a position to know also said without the dossier there would not have been an application. those are two really, really big things. on the other hand, then you look at what you have now in the dossier. then you look at what the fbi, the justice department and democrats have been saying the last few days: this would be an assault on the rule of law. it would reveal american intelligence sources and meth...

His 1,100-day plan. im not going to bore the audience because theres ten things on the list. you know, it was about tax relief. it was about repeal and replace obamacare. school choice and education and the illegal immigration act. its really zeros on all of these things, at least so far. >> yeah, and you know what, its worth giving some credit for what they have done which is actually on the immigration side, theres been a lot of activity on that side. some of it is harder for us to see. >> the...