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Not making much headway. you are bringing it back -- what you do about the millions -- >> access to high-capacity weapons, access to purchase weapons, if you have criminal history -- >> tucker: you are not hearing me. what do you do? do you ban them? >> how about we have a stop gap in the discussion. >> tucker: we can have a discussion. >> the cdc cant even do the research to answer the question because the nra and republicans want let them. how about we allow the cdc do the research? >> tucker:...

May have a reaganesque point. >> and the world has a way of grasping attention. the way hes seen to act decisively with respect to international challenges, that will put wind in his sails and earn respect from american people and even from some democrats. leland: our thanks to john roberts. despite calling the 100 day marker quote, ridiculous. president trump packed a lot into this final week leading up to it. in the days since that piece was aired, the president signed five more executive orde...

As undecided. has anything changed for you? >> no, still there. were working through the bill. there were changes. we just saw the amendment a few days ago. and i want to make sure, i think when youre talking about a sixth of the economy, you have to take your time and figure out where to go. so, im still there and hopefully will have a decision soon. >> congressman, thank you so much for coming in. >> any time. >> we appreciate it. for all of our viewers, an update from the house floor, as the ...

Secretary john kelly. secretary kelly, thank you so much for joining me this morning. lets start with the border wall with mexico, and how it relates to keeping the government open. if congress doesnt send president trump a government funding bill by midnight on friday, the government will run out of money and a shutdown would begin. so will the president go to the mat and insist on funding his border wall as part of the stop gap government funding measure? >> dana, i think it goes without sayin...

Entirety, asked quite frankly will the president draw the line here? will the president of the united states shut down the government, if he doesnt get the border wall funding? >> so will the president go to the mat and insist on funding his border wall as part of the stop gap government funding measure? >> well dana, i think it goes without saying that the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall, so i would suspect hell do the right thing for su...

Will the president go it at mat and insist on funding his border wall as part of the stop gap government funding measure? >> dana it goes without saying the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall. so i would suspect el do the right thing or i would suspect he will be insistent on the funding. >> sounds like the president is ready for a fight. with just days until a possible government shutdown, the president added funding for that wall along wit...

>> democrats are not going to be doing anything to pep. lets just be honest, angela, on this one. but the other factor of this is they need to keep the government funded. they need to pass some kind of stop gap, continuing resolution, whatever you want to call it, funding bill by the end of the week. you know how the hill works. can they do both things at once? >> i think its nearly impossible. kate, you said earlier in the broadcast that this bill is still being workshopped. if theyre still neg...

Party, you know a party who is willing to say, okay, $1.4 billion for a wall. this is a party five years ago saying, okay, were not going to give out flood relief or disaster relief unless theres a way that you can offset that cost and now were talking about 1.4 billion for a wall that eventually some day will be paid for by mexico. >> thats bipartisan with regard to who is in the white house, congress -- look, their main job, when all is said and done, their main job is to fund the government a...

Problem in syria which as you know is a multi-faceted problem on that side of the border. the united nations saying this weekend that because the cease-fire is mostly holding there, it could open the door for political solution to the civil war. you buy that? >> no. i dont. the cease-fire is holding in certain areas but if you look in the area in the central part of the country, we still see the kurds and the syrians and the free syria army going at each other on their way to ridding isis. alt...

Too big and it is also collapsing under its own weight. >> jesse: too big to fail. >> kennedy: of medicaid were so great and the answer to everything, then that could be the stop gap until you have replacement legislation, and systems in place. >> that is an interesting idea. >> kennedy: that is one of the things that republicans had come up block grants medicaid to the states, and let the states and figure out how best to issue that money to the people who are living there, and also have health...