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Its a 50/50 tie, they have to depend on vice president harris to break a tie. so, to do this, when every single republican opposes them, they have to get all 50 of their members together to vote and then have vice president harris break the tie. right now we know that senators joe manchin and kirsten sinema oppose getting rid of the legislative filibuster. we think that there are others who are very nervous about that because they know they are going to be in the minority some day and the filibu...

People act. we could talk six ways to sunday about manchins motivations here, but lets talk about, if youre a democrat, how do you even go about dealing with this now? what does this now mean for the democratic agenda at large? >> reporter: geoff, its an excellent question and its obviously a question that senate majority leader chuck schumer is having to grapple with. but the reality is this was always going to be an uphill battle for leader schumer to get any of these democratic priorities pas...

>> and its attempting to get some kind of framework conceded to an advance by mitch mcconnell. >> she wants senator schumer, the minority leader has asked specifically for four witnesses, four top white house officials in the john bolton, the acting chief of staff and michael duffy, the omb official who wrote that to email asking the pentagon to keep it hush hush. so schumer has asked for these witnesses and also some documents. mcconnell is resisting. and pelosi wants to give schumer a little b...

He was one of two democrats to vote against moving forward on the impeachment inquiry. he has made clear he planned to vote against both counts on impeachment on the floor of the house and privately all weekend hes been on the phone talking to fellow new jersey democrats about his decision to switch parties. the president urging him to switch parties and we expect him to do and as you mentioned, the six staffers resigning really leaving be a hole in this office, this freshmans office. these staf...

Who rescinded daca and started this whole mess to begin with. that was the deal that he promised graham and durbin when they talked on the phone last week and that was the deal also that was on track when he inv e invited schumer to the white house just on friday and what happened in all three of those situations, ana? the great dealmaker became the person who blew up the deal. so schumers absolutely right. how can you negotiate with someone whos like jell-o. with someone who says one thing to t...

>> lets discuss with republican congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania. he visited the region surrounding niger over the summer as part of a congressional delegation. sir, good to have you on the show. >> thanks, chris. great to be with you. >> so schumer doesnt know how many are in niger. president obama put the soldiers there in 2013, 800. it seems as though theres been an increase since then. senator graham says he didnt know and that this is an unending war without boundaries. let me ask y...

Schumer and trump can set their animosity aside, especially schumer, by saying people dont necessarily want american politics to be so polarized. they want a secretary of state. they want an attorney general. i think people are happy to have a thorough vetting. but to have months and months without these nominees being confirmed is not only offensive, its why people in the house and senate have single digit approval ratings. so schumer and president -- senator schumer and president-elect trump c...

One of the main pillars of his argument was, we have to do this in order to ban the cost curve which is happening. the deficit is shrinking. premiums are going to go up, but by not as much as they would have without the affordable care act. >> was he right to go to affordable care act rather than deal with the economic problem? >> i agree with david. he did deal with the middle class, and middle-class issues -- >> no he didnt. >> terrific for senator schumer, who is a brilliant political strateg...