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its tuesday, november 14th. congress has until friday to pass a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. speaker mike johnson might get support from house democrats on his two-step strategy to avoid that shutdown. well explain that plan. plus, special counsel jack smith responds to donald trumps push for cameras in the courtroom in his federal election interference case. meanwhile, the former presidents eldest son takes the stand again in the civil fraud trial against the famil...

Out to -- and make it easier for voters and watchers to understand that, you know, extortion is illegal and these actions were improper and problematic. but it will be very important for democrats to stay on message and make a mark right away especially with the white house rolling out counterprogramming with president erdogans visit to the white house on wednesday. >> so the president, his strategy seems to be just keep on tweeting. keep on talking to reporters. deny anything was wrong. republi...

Process isnt being held up. youll see at the beginning of the hearing theyll do a motion to adjourn. theyll do a motion to have a subpoena for hunter biden right there, anything they can do distract away from the substance theyll hear and draw the line towards the process because thats what they think is their best winning argument. >> the president, is he worried at all about public hearings and how that might sway public opinion? the numbers on impeachment has been ticking upwards. do they thi...

I mean, before you get there, the rules process, you wrote today in an nbc news think piece about how republicans should understand the rules process because theyre the ones who wrote the rules for these committees. >> right. >> lets all understand something here, for the last 25 years, 20 of them republicans controlled the congressional committees. they controlled the investigators. we saw through benghazi, these are the same rules being used right now by democrats. they dont like not having a ...

Articulate people telling the story of a president who lets forget quid pro quo. its one of the things to muddy the works. who extorted a vulnerable country by holding up military aid. >> republicans aware of the high stakes are preparing to defend the president by tearing down the investigation. according to politico, theyll continue to paint the process as politically motivated by minimizing mr. trumps role in any shadow campaign and pushing debunked conspiracy theories about ukraines alleged ...

In the process and things? >> its a set tell mike step in the right direction i think theres a number of the resolution draft that we have seen it does have a rules process and perhaps some changes will come out. the most important thing is we are now going to have sunshine that we have all been waiting for from these now many weeks because how can we assess witness credibility, we cant. how can we know whether ambassador taylor was persuasive or whether his testimony lacked persuasive power onc...

Example ok lets take the stability for pact yes right fact is that since it was introduced not a single year has gone by without at least one member countries firearms is breaching you remember the commission president because from his claim in twenty sixteen france was given that youre so wrong. exactly whilst were a sample of your i dont perfectly well i share your criticism about that because indeed it seems to be an assault offered to speed judgement on the public finances if youre a big cou...

That is unprecedented in modern american political history that you have a president who has his own party in control of both houses of congress and that president is in office for his first year and they pass nothing. it just doesnt work that way. but thats how its worked this year. now mostly what its looked like when theyve tried to pass something, weve been able to see that because of the kinetic activity of their repeated failures to kill obamacare, to kill the affordable care act. when don...

They try to pass something, seen that because of the kinetic activity of their repeated failures to kill obamacare, the affordable care act. when trump was sworn in, the congress had been sworn in 2 1/2 weeks. they were sworn in january 3rd. original plan was to use that time getting obamacare repeal ready. be ready by the time he got there. wanted it shined up, introduced through rules process, voted on and ready for brand new presidents signature, maybe even on the afternoon of inauguration da...

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