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Right now, the house just narrowly pass aed a budget plan that passed in the senate a week ago today. there you go, a big win. republicans needed to get this budget bill to pass to ease the way on tax reform efforts they hope to begin next week. without a budget, they would need 60 votes to get any tax plan through the senate. now its just 51. >> 60 is a threshold that derailed a lot of other legislative efforts, including the repeal and replace obamacare efforts. its not a united front. some go...

Because the democratic party moved so far left. when republicans are confident of how theyll do in the midterms that creates a confidence among insurgents who think they can challenge incumbent without costing the party a seat. one of the reasons you see enthusiasm behind this. in regards to senators corker and flake. bob corker was the senate who made possible the iran deal lowering the threshold for obama to move that deal through congress and jeff flake, since at the senate, campaigned as a c...

The president continues to say that he called bob corker to have this conversation where corker begged him to endorse him in tennessee. and bob corker says, thats not true. so why does the president insist on repeating these misstatements? >> i wasnt in that meeting. but on the issue of iran, senator corker did work with the obama administration to change it to a 60-vote threshold to disapprove as opposed to the 60-votes to approve the treaty. so i think that the presidents criticisms there are ...

Parliament is particularly symbolic and thats i expect something that will also address in some way or another here when he talks for the first time as the president of the german parliament and of course here is an important point that this blunder star there are six parties as compared to four in the last one to start the free democrats have across the five percent threshold and were back in a parliament and for the first time as you mention the far right in your fiftys also in parliament and ...

Percent the civic democrats are just ahead of the far right s.p.d. party in the battle for second place with eleven percent results suggest a total of eight already could surpass the five percent threshold to win parliamentary seats. well joining me now is pov apolo from berlin correspondent for czech radio under bobbish he uses a lot of anti-establishment rhetoric in his election campaign he earned a reputation in fact as the czech trump what was it that he said or did that convince voters hes ...

Business. i dont think anyone can be the adult in the room with donald trump. rather paul manafort was going to be the adult in the room and priebus, the establishment figure was going to create more discipline around him as president and now john kelly cant even do it. trump is going to be trump and thats what were all coming to understand. >> jason, it hasnt just been about john kelly. people have looked at h.r. mcmaster and general mattis and saying if worse comes to worst, if donald trump tr...

Adult in the room with donald trump. rather paul manafort was going to be the adult in the room and priebus, the establishment figure was going to create more discipline around him as president and now john kelly cant even do it. trump is going to be trump and thats what were all coming to understand. >> jason, it hasnt just been about john kelly. people have looked at h.r. mcmaster and general mattis and saying if worse comes to worst, if donald trump trying to go for the nuclear football and i...

Distractions as possible to hide the truth. here are some of the examples of the liberal mainstream media and action, just to remind you. take a look. >> we want to start with this we can rush the. >> its as if they are no shoes on the trump human centipede that are not about russia. russia, prussia, russia. >> the cloud about collusion with russia will hang over his head no matter where he stands. >> a devastating political chapter in american history. the president meddling in the russia probe...

They wanted to create as many distractions as possible to hide the truth. here are some of the examples of the liberal mainstream media and action, just to remind you. take a look. >> we want to start with this we week in russia gait. >> its as if they are no shoes on the trump human centipede that are not about russia. russia, russia, russia. >> the cloud about collusion with russia will hang over his head no matter where he stands. >> a devastating political chapter in american history. eviden...

Was not supposed to be here and almost imperilled the budget. he said im here. he wasnt here because he was dealing with a urinary tract infection. some said senator cochran was nudged to vote. he raised his hand at the wrong time. so if theyre not able to vote, that could imperil this. on december 12, there will be a special election in alabama. roy moore, a conservative republican against doug jones. we dont know how they would vote on this. roy moores campaign said they had nothing to add whe...