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Enough fentanyl coming in to kill everybody in the country. Isis smugglers, and all the numbers you just heard. Can the c. R. Be a way to get leverage to get ill leave that up to others. Well, and let me say this and we should wrap up. But some of yall may know brandon judd, the head of the National Border patrol union, brandon is a good friend. Ive spent a lot of time talking with Brandon Judd About what the Border Patrol sees and one of the interesting things brandon says, he says they dont pa...

Rather small problems when you think about the practical implications here. so the white house has started to ratchet up the pressure on congress. last week they had janet yellen call senator mcconnell, talk to him about what the consequences could be and what yellen has said is that the fed has been taking extraordinary measures in the treasury to keep the funds flowing. that can only go until october. so mid october, they are going to run out of tools and levers that they can pull. press secre...

This week. she is the person sort of representing republicans here. if she does come to some sort of agreement with the white house, is that going to stick? does she speak to the rest of her party? >> no, absolutely not, not in any way, shape or form. we have to see if one day she might or might not. but as garrett and anna know well, we talk to a lot of republicans on capitol hill, not very few but a good portion are not interested in a trillion dollar bill. steph, i cant emphasize enough the s...

Were against president obamas deficits and how come you are for republican deficits? isnt that the very definition? >> so where does that leave us, guys? we have a two year budget bill plus a spending gap passed but we will be back here on march 23rd for the spending portion. this is the fifth continuing resolution since all this began. steve: im confused why do we have to go back if they voted on it yesterday or last night? >> good question. because they had the votes, bipartisan votes for a bu...

Conference committee. get up to the crisis and three or four members get together with the president and do all our work. were irrelevant thats frustra fact that last year congress passed 30% of the number of bills that any other congress has ever passed. senate has bewhich the place that legislation goes to die. let me just ask the congressman. i know you guys have put together other proposals but one of the key sticking points at the moment is revenues and the view of the white house that have...

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