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new election wins, republicans are about to hold another presidential debate without their front-runner. both parties studying the results and assessing their 2024 strategies as donald trumps gop rivals are getting ready to take the stage. president biden is touting his partys new wins as defeats for trump and maga republicans. democrats political hopes rising amid fresh evidence their defensive abortion rights is a winning issue even as the presidents bleak poll numbers are raising so...

>> if he wins, hes been chosen by the people of montana, who their congressman is going to be. im going to let the people of montana decide there is no time where a physical altercation should occur with the press or just between human beings. >> i mean, he is denouncing the behavior and some of them are, others are not, but its not a ringing sort of no, this should not happen. >> right. >> theyre not backing away from gianforte. >> theyre not backing away from their candidate whom vice presiden...

Before meeting in person with the elder trump. and politico says trumps oldest son sat in on meetings and called perspective nominees. so much, critics say, for the clean break between the trump administration and the trump children. back in july don jr. even joked he might be the head of interior. >> i dont no if id be the head of it or just informing them. rest assured for all the hunters and shooters out there, they know i had his ear. >> reporter: zinkes montana roots may have worked in his ...

Well, now maybe -- just maybe thats okay for a guy who hunts varmins, but for the rest of us, that dog dont hunt! >> right now montana senator, john walsh, the man appointed to finish max baucus term is coming up against republican steve dans. hes already got the job but its tough to tell from his ad since he hasnt rolled out a new one since a week after being appointed. >> washington is broken. too many put themselves, their party, the special interests ahead of us. but i understand what courag...

Takes shape here. chris coun chris kuntz joins us from wilmington. thank you for being on the show. we were just getting into this in the last segment, if the goal here for democrats, if the goal is to address the sequester, to get that turned off or get a big part of that turned off at least and the sort of contours of these discussions as reported are sort of -- theyre small in scope, maybe not talking about revenue like we were before, not talking about the concessions that president obama wa...

Have just enough time to put in place a new budget that replaces the sequester, so that really is the goal. this is quite different than the not so super super committee you were talking about. we dont have the expedited path to the floor, the special legislative way of taking whatever deal we work out and getting it right to the floor without a filibuster, which the super committee had. so the scope of our total goal is a little bit more constrained. the other thing that i think, steve, makes i...

Plan facing a vote in the senate. its a critical week for the trump presidency. with his only major legislative victory hanging in the balance. >> hows the tax bill going, sir? >> i think the tax bill is going very well. we had a meeting on it today. its going to be a tremendous tax cut. >> reporter: and a critical month ahead for republicans with the year end spending bill looming to keep the government open. >> i think the tax bill is doing very well and i think the republicans are going to be...

>> reporter: republican senator steve dans from montana saying that he has concerns about this bill. he wants to see changes made to it before he could potentially support it. this is such a crucial week for republicans, pushing for it on this bill. republicans in the white house are trying to find the votes necessary to score their first legislative win of the trump administration, but the votes at this moment are not there yet. >> were going to get this done soon, get it to the presidents desk...