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Congressional republicans are already saying weisss new status makes him a Fire Wall Insulating President Biden and his Justice Department and could actually impede congressional efforts to get to the truth. Look into that. Also tonight, the Justice Department has moved to officially dismiss the now defunked plea deal with the president s son. Correspondent dazed spunt has the details from the Justice Department. Good evening, david. Reporter bret, good evening to you. The legal jeopardy for the...

College as well as expanded medicaid coverage for things like dental, vision and hearing, those likely arent making it in this reconciliation bill. so what the president started doing last night he started floating some solutions to that, some stop gap measures. specifically looking at things like possible $800 vouchers for hearing that will take effect or in some ways supplement the efforts they were trying to do on medicare, increasing pell grants which could get them closer to sending more pe...

Directly with mitch mcconnell. and we can assume from what happened tonight that mitch mcconnell didnt budge from his position. we know, brian, that congress is crisis activated institution. for the last three and a half months theyve been running on a series of these stop gap measures. until now they had no reason to turn off the lights in the federal government as they might in less than a hour. the difference here is that democrats are dug in. they believe they have political leverage. they b...

In that sense. thats really unfortunate. especially coming off a day where he said, any sort of daca deal which should be a deal of love, a deal that deals with people who are here through no fault of their own, which includes people who are protected by this temporary status, who have been here, are going to school, are working, and so its just a terrible way to refer to a group of people. i dont know how else you dress that up. >> an official response from the deputy press secretary. the state...

And at the end of the week what theyre going to have is not the health care bill and maybe a one week extension for the budget. >> what does that say about republican government? they had the house. they won the senate. they said give us a republican president and we will show you we can get things done. we have stop gap measures to keep the government open or at least start moving, advancing their signature promise of the last five, six, seven years, repeal and replace obamacare. >> theres a re...

Not going to say anything is easy, but the one thing you could do in the short term, and we need to do stop gap measures so there are no copy cats, the airlines do have discretion and we would have discretion on banning ammunition. alaska airlines allows 50 pounds of ammunition. if you remove that from the scene, then you would obviously take away the ability to use a gun other than as a blunt instrument. but in some court cases, ammunition have been -- has been defined as included in part of th...

Unconstitutional to latino voters that didnt like the law. i think arizona was on the forefront of this anti-immigration law. now that the court struck it down, other states are hesitant to pat laws. it will change immigration policy more broadly as you look forward. >> alice, do you aagree that the reaction from mitt romney as he lands in arizona today for this fund-raiser, he needs to be swift and come out with something specific in response? >> he has spoken on this topic. i agree with govern...

Temporary measure. as president, i will settle for stop gap measures. >> bret: to the point you made earlier, steve, is that selling on the broad scale? >> well, you know, i think he is basically saying there, no, im not going to rescind it until we have something to put in its place. that is appropriate for him to clarify that. look, i mean, it would have been helpful i think had he done it earlier. i agree with what charles said and to an extent what kirsten said in terms of the timing and the...

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Year 2009. but this president is operating by not having a budget passed in the normal order of things so the government knows how much money its going to spend over the next twelve months, but instead by a series of continuing resolutions and stop gap measures. its unbelievable. we have not had a highway funding bill which traditionally has been a six year bill, weve not had one since 2009. we have people across the country trying to figure out what are the five or six years going to look like ...