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Thanks leaders reid and pelosi and senators schumer and mccaskill. it adds permanent resources that continues to bolster security along the southwest border, supporting our efforts to crackdown on transnational criminal organizations and reduce the trafficking of people, drugs, currency and weapons. the bill is important in two respects. first, it adds new resources to the border. second, it makes permanent many of the assets that this administration has surged along the border during the past 1...

Thatç he is any worse for that. what are your concerns and whether you join senators schumer and gillibrand and the others and melendez in wanting an investigation of this? >> i absolutely do join my colleagues in wanting an investigation of this. it is -- it has been out for a while, but its not too late for an investigation. two points. the first obvious one is what role did bp play in convincing the british government to agree to this and the release of megrahi. the second thing is, even if...

Of power right now from the latino caucus really wanting to get comprehensive immigration reform through. senators schumer and graham have been working on a bill. theres a blueprint in place. theres no set timeline as to when that bill will see the light of day. congressman gutierrez says the president should not be in new york today talking to wall street bankers. he should be working on comprehensive immigration reform. quite remarkable. new concerns about an ash cloud from the iceland volca...

Senator schumer and by senator lindsay graham, republican of south carolina, would require everyone who is employed anywhere in the united states which includes us and almost everbody watching us now to carry this card. its not just immigrant whos are lawfully here and not yet citizens or even persons who are unlawfully here. but everybody would have to carry this card. so we go from a society which for 230 years was open and free. you can move wherever you want. the police just cant stop you an...

Surprised that democrats and republicans have combined on one theme that khalid sheik muhammad and his four cohorts will not be tried in new york city, the administration all but admits its not going to be there. >> i am not at all surprised. im a little bit disappointed in myself in that i planned to write the piece that we talked about this weekend back before christmas because i had come to the conclusion in just talking to a lot of people that i never believed that khalid sheik muhammad woul...

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Calling for an investigation. >> this cannot become a partisan issue. the stakes are too high for our country. >> newsroom starts right now. thanks for joining us. im boris sanchez in for fredricka whitfield. senators are pushing for an investigation into claims that russia intervened in the election to help donald trump. in a joint statement, democratic senators schumer and reed, and republican senators, mccain and graham, said recent russian interference in our election should alarm every am...

Reserve says well reach in a few days. reaching it could push our nation in unchartered territory. a lot to work on, capitol hill right now is quiet. so what did they do today? its important for us to know. we begin our coverage live from capitol hill. what else do we know? >> reporter: we got some pretty good sense of what happened at the white house meeting. thchs a meeting attend bipartisan leading senate democrats including harry reid. also attend by senators schumer, durbin and patty murray...

So-called bipartisan gang of eight, senators working on a compromise immigration proposal. word coming this weekend that an agreement is near. well ask senators schumer and flake about that. first, i want to go around quickly with our first of two political roundtables to frame whats at stake in these debates. joining us the former senior adviser to president barack obama, david axelrod. former congressman and chairman of the national republican campaign committee, former virginia james davis, p...