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Would start to get it moving and go back to the days of tip oneill and ronald reagan. you can talk to each other and you can have debate on issues and still come to the center of agreement where youre not getting everything but in the majority maybe get 80%, good, lets move forward. our country needs that and our voters demanded that and thats what we were supposed to be doing with our majority. >> right now, there is a bipartisan event going on on the kentucky side of the bridge between covingt...

Anger and maybe theyll want to play ball. >> all right. congressman davis, thanks so much. dana bash, i keep hearing this expression of hope from republicans that democrats are somehow going to be part of the extrication, the resolution here. what do you think? >> i think if the shoe were on the other foot, good luck. so maybe ultimately after we get, you know, days and weeks maybe even a month into this, maybe, but i just dont see it. i just want to return to what you were asking the former con...

The frustrated 202 other republicans who want kevin mccarthy to be speaker. the 20 republicans who dont dont represent more than a tenth of the conference that we have right now. mike gallagher gave an impassioned speech that 200 are very energized to stick this out right now. more so than ive ever seen before. >> let me ask you, congressman, on the left side of the screen our viewers are seeing a democratic president in the home commonwealth, kentucky, a republican senate leader mitch mcconnell...

Inside the who is who have looked at this with a level of some amusement. white house officials were keenly aware of the figurative opportunity of a split screen when the president arrived in kentucky with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell to talk about one of his bipartisan achievements of his first two years. they didnt expect a literal one. you saw the chaos on the house floor as the president stood with leader mcconnell talking about the $2 billion going to the bridge, and while they li...

The states of kentucky and ohio to joinsly build a new bridge and repair this bridge behind me. it was built 60 years ago to accommodate about half the traffic of who it actually has today. so, ultimately, what president biden is here to talk about is what can be done when democrats and republicans work together, and also, of course, this contrast. already the president was looking to kick off 2023, as he faces this new reality of divided government in washington by touting the bipartisanship, s...

For the president who tomorrow will give a speech on border security. >> in an about face, president biden is planning to visit the southern border during a trip to mexico city next week. >> thats my intention. we are working out the trip right now. >> bidens first wasnt on the radar last month. >> more important things going on. >> last year the white house deemed it not worth while. >> its an issue of what is most constructive. >> with democrats no longer controlling both chambers of congress ...

They refuse to work with the rest of the team, were going to be forced to work across the aisle to seek that bipartisan leader, and we have some names in mind but we really want to focus on kevin mccarthy right now and thats the important thing. >> how worried are you about the potential damage that is being done to the republican party? we were showing earlier in hebron, kentucky, where there were a number of bipartisan leaders including joe biden, including mitch mcconnell, including sherrod b...

Earmarks or $16 billion that didnt allow us to secure the border. 45 billion for oukraine without a single vote on the floor. >> bret: i understand that. i really do. do you know who first used the swamp, talked about the swamp was former president trump as e was campaigning to be president. this statement endorsing mccarthy i think its a dangerous game and frankly, if theyre not happy with him they can do something about it at a later date. i support mccarthy and i support getting the deal done...

Governors of kentucky and ohio were able to get money for the bridge. it has been a symbol of the crumbling infrastructure now on the pathway changing that to some degree, and the president will be with this bipartisan group to tout clear results from something he was able to put into place, and i think if you listen to what manu was laying out and the circus atmosphere there is to some degree with this house republican majority as it tries to get its bearings, and you think about what the presi...

Reporting has been as much as theyve gotten into whats happening right now. theres one thing to note going forward. there are procedure reasons as to when they need answers. there are committees likely to investigate the biden administration. those wont launch until theres a speaker. theres also the optics. president biden on wednesday is going to be traveling to kentucky to appear at an event to celebrate his bipartisan infrastructure law with republican leader mitch mcconnell. thats a split sc...