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Colleagues on the other side of the aisle. and some in my own conference that weve got to fix this problem. i will continue to support a measure that will go through reconciliation, the 51 vote threshold. im willing to look at what the democrats may be willing to offer. the problem is, it seems to be nothing more than whipping around the edges. and we simply cannot do that. we cannot sustain it. it will continue to destabilize the markets and i think will put people at risk more so than what we ...

The aisle. and some in my own conference that weve got to fix this problem. i will continue to support a measure that will go through reconciliation, the 51 vote threshold. im willing to look at what the democrats may be willing to offer. the problem is, it seems to be nothing more than whipping around the edges. and we simply cannot do that. we cannot sustain it. it will continue to destabilize the markets and i think will put people at risk more so than what we try to get done she weeks ago. >...

The battalion forces. thats where the rubber meets the road and afghans are losing dozens per month. embedding at the battalion level does not meet the threshold of the u.n. definition of mercenary. they would be attached as long-term trainer advisers. >> are they military employees of the united states or people that -- they are contractors? >> military employees of the afghan government. imagine them as a skeletal structure to all of those afghan battalions so it works reliably. they need air ...

Colleagues on the other side of the aisle. and some in my own conference that weve got to fix this problem. i will continue to support a measure that will go through reconciliation, the 51 vote threshold. im willing to look at what the democrats may be willing to offer. the problem is, it seems to be nothing more than whipping around the edges. and we simply cannot do that. we cannot sustain it. it will continue to destabilize the markets and i think will put people at risk more so than what we ...

Where a lot of their witnesses are, makes things go faster and more smoothly. and then theres another suggestion that perhaps theres something about being in washington that would be a more favorable venue for an eventual trial. the jury pool or other conditions, there have been a lot of political trials in washington. they often do not go well for the defendants. >> asia, do you think its possible or likely that the president would be subpoenaed by the grand jury to testify? >> he could be. ken...

Youre saying its 0 okay, but the onus is on the journalist to vet out -- i dont think i trust journalists to be that threshold -- >> i dont trust the government to do it either. you could twist this to be a national security risk. i didnt want to do anything that could mess with our free press in this country. one of the most wonderful things. >> agreed. heres my question. who is it? priebus is gone. scaramucci is gone. bannon is still there. thats an issue. is it a jeff flake? who are the peopl...

And that is one reason for this large number of leaks. >> one of the things janet th napolitano, former prosecutor said, the threshold for when you go after the media, should be a very high bar. should be a threat to national security, not just a political embarrassment. >> and i think part of whats going on is theyre so embarrassed by all thats going on, but also because the career officials, ones who have a loyalty to their institutions, not just to the president, are saying we really need to ...

Most other nations around the world, their immigration that comes to their country comes first because they want to be part of a certain job or job field and they are coming to the country bringing more skills to be able to advance that. canada and australia. he is trying to shift it to a system focused on emotion -- economic. >> shannon: most people agree the system is broken. it is enough to get to debate this which we saw with a challenge on healthcare. >> i hope it is something we can procee...

You have september morn coming there. you have the debt ceiling, the ability to get a budget done. those are both in september. september morn, neil diamond. >> i got that. >> how big a deal is that? >> this is something where you have democrats say lets craft something bigger with our priorities as well, forcing majority leader mcconnell to say, no, theyre out of sync with republican priorities, well probably have to do this with reconciliation, just 51 votes. the president provokes the republi...

Insurance markets. a move welcome on both sides of the aisle. >> weve got to fix this thing because its not working. the status quo is failing the people i represent in ohio and it deserves to be fixed. >> what weve learned is when you do it with one party, it becomes political. >> as congress appears content to let the process play out, the president is growing impatient. in a skating tweet he wrote, republicans in the senate will never win if they dont go to a 51 vote majority now. they look l...