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Lack of accomplishments, the president is pushing republicans to dump the filibuster rule and only require a simple majority of 51 votes to pass a bill, instead of 60. >> if we dont, the republicans will never get anything passed. you are wasting your time. >> reporter: not majority leader, mitch mcconnell says, that is not a starter. >> there are not enough votes as i said to the president and all of you, to change the rules of the senate. >> reporter: trumps frayed relationship with mcconnell ...

>> surely you dont expect us to be easier on you because youre a woman? >> absolutely not. thats not how my momma raised me. >> that was nbcs kelly odonnell reporting. last night planned parenthood president cecile richards, she appeared on nbcs the rachel maddow show and addressed this funding debate in congress and whether its all about scoring political points. >> i do think it may be something that they find is politically effective within their caucus or within the republican primary. but i...

Congress is close to passing a stop gap bill to avoid an immediate government shutdown. the measure keeps government funding at current levels through december 11th. cleared a key procedural hurdle in the senate on monday and could be approved in the house as early as today. this lasts until december where there could be huge fights over funding planned parenthood, raising the debt ceiling and more. with new leadership in place by then, a shutdown becomes a real possibility. on the same note, ...

Are called prudential judgment where the pope can have an opinion like on climate change and on immigration, where catholics do have the freedom to disagree, though we take when the pope says very seriously. so theres a hierarchy in regard to the importance of the issues that the pope talks about when we look at the doctrine of the church. >> this senate considering of course that continuing resolution to avoid a possible government shutdown. the democrats say they are ready to filibuster any st...

Odds of this turning out beautifully really arent that great. >> gop leaders are playing down talk of a government shutdown, but some conservatives seem to be determined to use the spending legislation to strip funds from planned parenthood. what are you hearing about that? >> well, this is really the big concern of the leadership in congress. the deadline is the end of the month, end of september, otherwise, the government is without funding. the plan really was to pass a stopgap bill, a tempor...

Real politics. the federal government could be on the vernal of shutting down. as a battle is brewing over the fiscal year. today they said they will approve a stop gap bill that will keep them running till december. republicans also plan to insist on spending cuts. president obama denounced the move. >> you have never seen in the history of the united states, the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party, and trying to force...

November 2009. >> it is another short term fix with one week to go the democratic controlled senate has passed a stopgap bill to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year. as the measure provide $982 billion. the bill lost in the $85 billion of federal spending cuts that went into effect at the beginning of this month. the house is expected to approve the bill. it could vote as soon as today. >> theres a startling new figure out that shows at least 1 million children in the ...

It requires the government to keep current staffing levels at detention centers for undocumented immigrants. boosts embassy security by $2 billion. and funds the government through september the 30th. but if the gop is working to mitigate disaster for defense, theyre far from rolling back the sequester reductions. democrats wanting to restore head start or health care funding, of course, came away empty handed. indeed, new estimates from the congressional budget office show that under the stopga...

Here in the states. >> were they using the military as negotiation tactics? i hate to say pawns, but as part of the negotiation in this process? >> i think that was in the back of their minds. i dont know what went on inside the room, whether or not that was a big part of the discussion. i think, clearly, everybody felt strongly that the military needed to be paid. its the reason why when the republicans pass their latest stopgap bill, they included the full pay for the military going out into s...

Getting a check. the troops should not be a political football. that should not be a game. >> and newt gingrich, you may remember, he was a key player in the last government shutdown. he tweeted the president was using our men and women in uniform as bargaining chips. for president obama and the democrats, the stopgap bill is a distraction. a cynical republican ploy that blocks the real budget deal. but the democrats are playing their games, too. hyping the republicans ideological agenda. repres...