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Was pretty bold during that testimony with his questions, his statements. what do you make, terry, of what were watching today, the disarray for republicans in trying to find a person that is their leader? >> yeah, i think, quite frankly, that if there are any moderate republicans in the house, they have been completely cowed by the extremists. and its a real shame. you know, there is nothing wrong with doing business with democrats. the republicans actually have the ability to do that. its call...

Moderate republicans, and he said what the majority of my colleagues, almost all of my colleagues on the democratic side agree with. that is that in order to make decisions, we need to work together. we need a governing majority of the house. the republicans need to reject passing legislation only with a majority of the republicans in congress. we can find common ground. we should reach across the aisle. in fact, with congressman dan webster, one of the candidates for speaker, he and i dont agre...

Because what we should be doing is democrats and republicans should be getting together, working on important legislation, getting the government running again and making sure that we create jobs and grow the economy. none of that is going to happen likely with any of these republican choices that keep being mentioned for speaker. >> when you take the train north and go home to your home district, the jersey shore, what are you hearing from people about your job, about our elected officials in g...

Economy. the stagnation with wages, the stagnation in the job market. look at all of the political candidates right now that are running for president. number one issue, national security. our standing in the world and the need to address foreign policy, the need to have an aggressive plan, and we feel congress needs to assert our role and our position in so many of these issues. we have seniors who are saying the issues of retirement security need to be brought to the table. tax reform, it need...

In 2016. this is a renewed war on women, women view it as a renewed war on women, and people -- you know, i had an activist in oklahoma who was talking to me saying these guys going after planned parenthood, theyre promoting policies that kill women because when women dont get reproductive health care maternal mortality and infant mortality rates go up sharply. so that is how women out in the united states are looking at these hearings. and im glad we have champions on this committee. i think it...

House of representatives without a clear front-runner for speaker of the house, controlled by the other party. what do you make of just what went down in the gop caucus today? >> its good to see you, brian. i think its just very unfortunate and indicative of the fact that with this chaos that the republican majority in the house just cant run the government. as chris said, we have very important business to do here, whether its investing in the economy, in jobs and infrastructure and instead, we...

Called "the gang that couldnt shoot straight." the house republicans appear to be the gang that cant shoot each other straight. while its got an amusing aspect for democrats, im not surprised you havent been able to get policy from her. shes a very well-mannered person. i think she was taught gloating is not something you should be caught doing. i gets more profound than this. we have a serious issue here. a substantial part of the republican party, this is manifesting itself both in the preside...

Presidency. do you believe at the end of the day the republican caucus will come up with a good name, a suitable name, a compromise name, a uniter? >> well, i think it will be interesting. paul ryan is obviously going to be under a lot of pressure to take that job. i understand that he doesnt want anything to do witness. its difficult. your previous interviewee, congresswoman blackburn, very carefully avoided answering your question about who shes for for speaker, saying its up to the house as i...

Against these republican leaders that are so adamantly going after a beloved institution, namely planned parenthood. >> what do you make about the latest investigation about planned parenthood to move forward even though republicans, they say the organization didnt break any laws, this was during wednesdays debate. so why do you think this lingers? >> well, i think that the arch conservatives in the republican party and by the way, these are the men and almost all men, who want to take over enti...

Time, the government was shut down because this same group of republicans on the right had insisted, if you cant get obamacare basically taken off the books, the whole government should shut down ppt it shut down. polls show voters overwhelmingly blaming the american congress for this. the ratings for the republican congress and the republican party were low. fast forward to a year after that shutdown and republicans had not only a very good leaked night in 2014, they actually reached the highes...