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Blasio, on a different end of the political spectrum from the president out in front of trump tower railing on the tax plan. schumer is going to be trying to impress upon this president as much as possible the effect this is going to have in new york, in his home state, but in other states, and some of these members of congress who represent these districts, yes, new york is a blue state. statewide, but there are districts that could be vulnerable that are held by republicans, and if this tax bi...

Serving a long way from home on thanksgiving. your thoughts on what we heard there. >> the president trying to emphasize a stronger america. his comments, both resurgence in military strength and economic strength. he has a major economic policy initiative in tax reform on the senate floor later this week. or excuse me next week. and hes -- hes trying to project that confidence that he sort of ran on -- in his campaign of -- of making america great again. he tweeted at greg sargent an opinion wr...

With republicans on this. the leaders of the democrat party in power right now their base is determined to not give president donald trump or the republican party any wins. there is no real incentives to democrats to work with republicans to get legislation passed. >> there is an incentive. the good of this great country. >> i wish that counted. >> it does count. if we can stop fighting one another and stand together against our adversaries overseas as we heard with north korea and china and rus...

We have confirmed president trump on tuesday will meet with the big four congressional leadership. mcconnell, ryan, schumer, pelosi to avoid a government shutdown next month. thats going to require congress and compromise come up with a long-term or more likely short-term budget extension by december 8. bret. >> bret: phil keating live in west palm beach. thank you. alabama democrat senate candidate doug jones is fighting back against comments yesterday from president trump calling him a liberal...

The mother of all monkey wrenches into the bill. repealing the individual mandate. the nonpartisan congressional budget office said it would lead to 13 million fewer americans with health insurance. so were kicking 13 million people off health insurance to give tax cuts to the wealthy. >> theres schumer with his take on it and you hear this from other democrats. this isnt exactly the populous plan that the president trump in some ways promised on the campaign trail. >> no, but this is exactly --...

Senator jillibrand, i used to look at her as just senator schumers kind of puppet. thats how we discuss her. but this is not the jillibrand that we know. people in new york are looking at her differently. not just because of this, because of other things shes doing differently. theres nobody on the northeastern senate delegation whos done as much as she has, lets say for example of the hurricane sandy victims, i think shes a real incumbent for the presiden presidency. >> i worked with president ...

Picture that was given to her of her asleep with senator franken mock-groping her. so in a statement senator frankens office apologized to leeann tweeden. im going to read this statement here. quote, i certainly dont remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but i send my sincerest apologies to leeann. as to the photo, it was clearly meant to be funny but wasnt. i shouldnt have done it, end quote. we have various reaction on capitol hill. senator mitch mcconnell, the majority leader i...

Chuck schumer as my leader. >> its a brilliant play and something we see red state dems doing. once youre in the senate it, becomes harder to run against schumer because he is your leader and you voted for him. moving forward its the only way a democrat will win a state like alabama. >> i also think on the republican side, this has become such a personal fight between mitch mcconnell and roy moore and that republicans are recoiling in any way from mitch mcconnell that i think its -- it behooves ...

Country. >> i think mayors know how to get things done. >> hes a good mayor. >> mayor pete out there. weve got mayors from dayton, from columbia, south carolina, from nashville. we know that washington is so broken its up to us to show people how you can actually create jobs, fix this country and build our future. and i think people are frustrated not just with the white house but the inaction that -- >> why dont the leaders -- im watching nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. they just wait for the p...

To expand our tent and welcome him. its unclear to me if the schumer/pelosi wing of the party would have selected him as a nominee if they could have. the fact that he won that nomination withcauliffes help, deserves a lot of credit for how hes expanded that state. almost 6% of virginians said they love the way the state is headed. democrats shouldnt overreact. we should study these races, study all the races you mention, including phil murphys race. there was a nationalization there, but he als...