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He can get nancy pelosi as many votes as she wants in order for her to be elected speaker of the house, she deserves the victory, she has earned it. he cites in particular tom reed, the republican, who told me he would be open to voting for pelosi if he she endorsed certain rule changes. so far pelosi has not endorsed, and says she intends to win with democratic votes. and today, jim, pelosi making phone calls to her members expressing confidence at the end of the day she will have the votes and...

Going to fight for rule changes. they must have enough votes to hold up the speaker vote which requires a majority of the whole congress. bills should come out of caucus and go to the floor if they have a reasonable level of support. in that well in fact open up the floor to a lot more votes. and thats because they want to be able to vote on things that may not be necessarily the choice of the house leadership. we dont want to go to the freedom caucus by the way. we want to get them into the flo...

Growing movement that maybe we would be better off and somebody like jeffress from new york is being floated as possible contender and i thought that was -- if youd asked me a week ago i would have said forget it, shes it but now not so sure. paul: i would assume she would say, look, i helped you win back the majority, i raised a lot of money, you know i can do this job, i did it before and why dont we negotiate transition, you can fight over who succeeds me but give me the next two years and i ...

Of all the rule changes. it might benefit you to change status. do the work now so youre ready to go in 2019. >> exactly. >> number one. >> capital equipment you talk about. >> correct. accelerate into depreciation. you can spend up to $1 million on capital equipment. j.j., you dont really is a to paper for the stuff. put a down payment down, finance the rest. still historically low interest rates. get it into service by the end of the year. boom. get a full years deduction up front. a really bi...

1st of next year. with all the rule changes, it might benefit you to change status. do the work now so youre ready to go. so thats number one. >> okay. capital equipment you talk about. >> correct. accelerated depreciation. because of tax reform, you can spend up to a million bucks now on capital equipment. and you dont really have to pay for this stuff. you can put a down payment on the equipment, finance the rest, and its still historically low interest rates. get it into service by the end of...

Kavanaugh fight, i know that. it was after that your facebook page was, bingo, gone. >> there is no real reason. spent nine months begging them when they rolled out the new rule changes. they would not contact us to give us the meeting to go over the rules we want them to remain in contact to go with these rules. they didnt want to help us. we were begging them. i sent 50 emails directly to our facebook contact katie harvin and she was ignoring it. any other person, any other company? they would...

And then pt was aftit was after your facebook page was, bingo, gone. >> there is no real reason. spent nine months begging them when they rolled out the new rule changes. they would not contact us to give us the meeting to go over the rules we want them to remain in contact to go with these rules. they wouldnt. they didnt want to help us. and we were begging them. i sent 50 emails directly to our facebook contact katie harvin and she was ignoring it. we were -- any other person or any other comp...

Whole senate would have to overrule and strip the jurisdiction of the committee. its way down in the procedural weeds, but we have seen mitch mcconnell blow through those rule changes around the supreme court nominees. i dont think theres a perception he would hesitate to do that again. so i would look at the committee as a significant weather vane, and if jeff flake is willing to stand up in committee, that could tell you a lot about what could happen on the senate floor. it could precipitate w...

His vote, that could stop it in the committee. >> it could, lawrence. although the reality is theres kind of only one scenario whereby jeff flake could stand in the way. they could, essentially, they would force a vote where the whole senate would have to overrule and strip the jurisdiction of the committee. its way down in the procedural weeds, but we have seen mitch mcconnell blow through those rule changes around the supreme court nominees. i dont think theres a perception he would hesitate t...

Federal level, at the circuit level, has been one of those successes and don mcgahn has been behind a lot of that. >> absolutely, which is why you got that tweet from chuck grassley and why mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, put out the most effusive statement in a very long time. >> he said hes the best white house counsel hes ever known. >> hes ever known. and the reason is theyve been able to push through just a huge number of conservative judges. and in part thats because of rule c...