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Strongly pushing back, tweeting, "when it comes to how to fight coronavirus, im making my decisions based on health care professionals, not political punditry." the treasury secretary has been shuttling back and forth between mcconnell and schumers office all day, trying to work this out. theyre optimistic, but there is still no deal. theyre hoping the checks will go out to americans early next month. but bottom line, we dont know when that will happen. david? >> mary, thank you. overseas this...

The guy who was engaged in genocide in the balkans. i was the guy when i was a senator that helped put together the chemical weapons treaty but on the issue of dealing with international relations and our standing in the world, i think that im happy to put my overall record against anyone running for president, particularly this president. >> many democrats, bernie sanders most recently, talksed about lack of energy that for democrats to prevail, theres going to need to be energy and excitement ...

The vice president and other top officials here at the white house. press secretary stephanie grisham releasing a statement just a short time ago that reads, quote, we are aware of the reports of attacks on u.s. facilities in iraq the president has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team now, this all comes after the administration was out in full force defending the decision to kill irans top general. lawmakers have been demanding answ...

Balkans, slobodan milosevic. i was the guy when i was a senator that helped put together the chemical weapons treaty but on the issue of dealing with international relations and our standing in the world, i think that im happy to put my overall record against anyone running for president, particularly this president. >> many democrats, bernie sanders most recently, talked about lack of energy, the need that for democrats to prevail, theres going to have to be energy and excitement around a candi...

House. press secretary stephanie grisham releasing a statement just a short time ago that reads, quote, we are aware of the reports of attacks on u.s. facilities in iraq the president has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team now, this all comes after the administration was out in full force defending the decision to kill irans top general. lawmakers have been demanding answers, and they want the intelligence behind the attack release...

Abroad and if they dont feel like they have the full story, theyre not going to be able to do their best and pursue the policies they think are the right ones because they dont know if the president has their back. >> i want to focus on mick mulvaney and this puts on nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to negotiate with mitch mcconnell to force him to testify. >> that is an important point in this great reporting by eric and his colleagues. paints a deeper portrait of the role mick mulvaney played in...

>> i think it is important that -- >> -- somewhat significant, right? mcconnell said this over a week ago shes the first one to come out and criticize him for doing so. there are a lot of republicans throughout the last three years on the hill who have been perpetually troubled by things that have gone on and yet they have continued to close ranks around leader mcconnell and around the white house ultimately in the end whether thats on the cavanaugh vote, whether thats been on impeachment, not a...

Fact it was a rabbis home. hanukkah. that leads to a strong suspicion that is a hate crime related to a federal crime. >> as we have been reporting all evening a terrifying 24 hours of violence and bloodshed with the attacks. one jewish targeting jewish people. another attacking christians. we have been talking about texas. you mention new york. a man with a knife barged into a rabbis home stabbing five people. lt house was filled with people celebrating hanukkah. new york senator schumer is cal...

Youre going to have more republican defections or democratic defections and thats going to be sort of this interesting tea leaf reading as were all chasing people through the halls. >> the beauty and glory of our job. thats a good point. i feel like weve been so focused on what republicans might be in play to vote for a different kind of trial than what mcconnell wants where theres actually democrats here who arent set on moving forward necessarily on this. clearly backed schumers push, but aren...

Trump. >> ive been dubious that the bidens would show up. i still doubt that joe biden would show up. but the biden i care about is hunter biden. if joe biden is nervous, how do you think hb would be -- his lawyer would never let him show up. so this is a moment be careful what you wish for. and you want a trial and witnesses and the republicans have ideas on that too and so why i think the ultimate thing will happen is both presentations and both parties will decide weve heard enough and lets m...