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Spending bill. its the policy for the pentagon and the defense secretary says in the middle of the war with -- helping support ukraine and the war with russia lets have clarity please. the house will vote on the senate version now of the -- to protect same-sex marriage and believe that will be done. the challenge to your point is that the president is negotiating and schumers negotiating with mitch mcconnell to get a deal on the big issues and you can sell to the house democrats who only have a ...

>> right, exactly. they had to phone it in because they are not having a positive impact, if you will, on such a tight race. in a battleground state they dont want to be the figures who will tip this one way or another not in favor of their candidate. so when we we look at trump, we havent seen him there. as well as for biden the same case and reminiscent of what we saw throughout the midterms and worked for a lot of candidates including democrats in terms of pushing their races in their favor. ...

Referrals, whoever they may decide to put on that list, they clearly want to put a unified front forward and i think thats essentially why were getting so few details about who was on the list, what provide tension crimes are on the list and want to present a united front when it comes to that final document. >> we will circle back when we get those details. appreciate the reporting, sara and elie. the law enforcement heroes who defended the capitol back on january 6th honored today in the ver...

Thank you for sharing runoff day with us. it is, yes, decision day in georgia. raphael warnock versus herschel walker in a big senate runoff. the winner comes to washington and offers the balance of power in a big way. plus, a december rush, congress must speed through a long list of must get done items. right now big divides on defense spending, vaccines and stopping a government shutdown including a new republican rift between mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy and today a watershed decision...

Criminal referrals and make them, to finish their final report and i think that they are still grappling with what exactly this document would look like that has to do with criminal referral, john. >> when a document like that gets to the white house we dont know what its going to say yet but is there a legal requirement that the justice department has to look at in a certain way or another branch of government which did a very thorough and important investigation sending along its advice and ju...

Pelosi and schumer and mcconnell grandstanding about the border and fentanyl and issues that republicans are trying to raise in the new congress trying to secure those votes to make sure heing abouts speaker then deal with what comes next. this is why mcconnell doesnt want to have to negotiate with him. >> what everyones end game is. kevin mccarthy is to get to tomorrow and then maybe get to the next day. [ laughter ] im really not trying to be -- >> very valid point. >> trying to maintain every...

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Period right after the election up to january 6th and thereafter and you can bet that thats what the justice department wants to talk about. >> but he did reject out of hand testifying in front of the january 6th congressional committee. lets listen to him speaking about that recently. >> yeah. >> congress has no right to my testimony. the very notion of a committee on congress and congress summoning a vice president to speak about deliberations that took place at the white house i think would v...

Colleague at "politico," congressional reporter nicholas woo. good to see you. with congresswoman elaine luria losing her reelection bid this last week, there will now be four members of the january 6th committee who are leaving congress in january. we also expect that the commission will be disbanded once republicans take over. will they finish their work in time? >> the committee is definitely going to finish its work before then. members have been insistent all along that theyre going to get ...

President of the united states to speak about deliberations that took place at the white house. the partisan nature of the january 6th committee has been a disappointment to me. it seemed to me in the beginning there was an opportunity to examine every aspect of what happened on january 6th, and to do so more in the spirit of the 9/11 commission. >> that was former president mike pence shutting the door on testifying before the house january 6th select committee. as a reminder, the committee is ...