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Yemen. and a strong rebuke to the saudis and to the crowned prince. the first is the resolution passed with bipartisan support which says the u.s. needs to get out of helping saudi arabia in their war in yemen. it also rebukes the crowned prince rebukes the saudis for their role in the khashoggi killing. that resolution while a strong bipartisan statement, it was packed by bernie sanders and mike lee about as ideological opposites as youre liable to find. thats not going to go anywhere in the u....

There. eyebrows go up. who is he trying to help when he lied to congress? who was he trying to help when he violated the campaign finance rules? its fairly standard defense stuff. i look for a harsh rebuke from the southern district. >> let me get you in on this. talking about campaign finance violations. president trump, his defense i guess we can say in the reuters interview when it comes to campaign finance violations, it wasnt a campaign contribution f. it were it is only civil. if it is onl...

House of its not going to get past in the senate. >> the fact is you can get started that way. >> the house and get passed very easily and we do but the problem is the senate because we need ten democrats to vote and they wont vote. >> laura: pelosi challenge the president and republicans in the house. they might call her bluff. house republicans said late today they will try to pass a $5 billion funding bill for the wall. this would be a stunning rebuke of nancy pelosi. my question is would a s...

>> the fact is you can get it started that way. >> the house we can get past easily. we do. the problem is the senate. we need ten democrats to vote. they wont vote. >> laura: pelosi challenge the president and republicans in the house. they might call her bluff. house republicans said late today they will try to pass a $5 billion funding bill for the wall. this would be a stunning rebuke of nancy pelosi. my question is would a shutdown put pressure on schumer to cough up the democratic votes ne...

Nancy pelosi indicated to the president that she said, you guys dont have the votes. the president said i do. this is something that i engaged with paul ryan. there were two bills that failed earlier this year, different types of bills but failed in the house of representatives that would have provided full wall funding. thats why democrats are the lynchpin right now, neil. unless republicans can put their money where their mouth is and move a bill like that, they have to have democratic votes. ...

Stronger rules about how it handles issues within the congress. all of these things and some of which there is bipartisan consensus on. going to fall away? >> many of them are likely to fall away, particularly because we are running up against christmas which means a lot of these lawmakers want to get out of town. i think they will be happy to set aside the initiatives. that may leave them. >> they dont need a lot of cooperation to get things through in the senate. the resolution is one to watch...

The rebuke of lawmakers in the u.s. but again, were seeing this bond between mr. trumps inner circle and the saudis that seems to put business first over political norms. >> well, yes, weve known this as a pattern of behavior of various trump officials and so on. but it does speak to a bigger picture which is the importance of the saudis in regard to president trumps middle eastern strategy. and i think this kind of a dipping beneath the norms of behavior, diplomatic protocol and so oi think its...

The president bhoo wwho is a republican will need republicans to come it his defense to prevent a political rebuke, whether impeachment or something short of that. i think the most remarkable thing that weve seen is up until the last week, all of the public information that we had about where robert mueller was going was to associates of the president, was to people around the president, some closer than others, but never touching the president directly with a government accusation. and that is ...

Week theres going to be a vote to end u.s. involvement in saudi-led war in yemen. probably enough votes to get this out of the senate. the president could block it, veto it. it will be a symbolic rebuke of the presidents handling of this. and there are other legislative pushes that are serious that involve republicans like lindsey graham, who want to slap mbs with sanctions, suspend arms sales that the president has touted to promote the relationship between saudi arabia and the u.s. the preside...

Elie mystal, executive editor for "above the law," and michelle goldberg. a little earlier i had a conversation with texas congressman joaquin castro. i was actually surprised by his answer. he said at some point while no member of congress gets elected to impeach a president, its complicated, its not what they want to, do you cant keep denying this sort of information. and in this document it talks about the fact that the president may have conspired with michael cohen to commit a felony that i...