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Wanted to cut funding in the bill. they are referred to as moderates. what is moderate about allowing the planet to burn? >> you know, there is nothing thats moderate. look, for me, when we talk about these differences, i just want to be really clear about this. increasing child care, attacking the climate change problem, increasing the minimum wage, expanding medicare, all of those things, the overwhelming majority of americans want to see. and thats democrats, republicans, independents, a majo...

They are referred to as moderates. senator, what is moderate about allowing the planet to burn? >> you know, there is nothing thats moderate. look, for me, when we talk about these differences, i just want to be really clear about this. increasing child care, attacking the climate change problem, increasing the minimum wage, expanding medicare, all of those things, the overwhelming majority of americans want to see. and thats democrats, republicans, independents, a majority of america wants to s...

Thats what we are going to be watching for. >> jennifer, it is really clear what is on the line here for democrats. what does it look like for republicans? >> well, they are the masters of throwing sand in the gears. they not only want us apparently the default. they want the government to shut down. thats another deadline, separate from the debt, which basically means we wont pay our bills. this basically says we dont have enough to keep the government open, the lights on right now. they would ...

Bill from more conservative voters. so these are the people manchin listens to a lot. >> you know elise, i think earlier in the show we had either a full screen or -- i dont think it was a video of mitch mcconnell saying this. im going to para phrase. but mitch mcconnell said that he -- i think it was he praised -- prays for manchin and cinema and sends him his love. when i read it, i thought, oh, mitch is trolling. totally trolling the democrats. he could nt careless. he doesnt love them. he lo...

Throwing sand in the gears. >> it seems like we need, very soon, state by state polls to understand what might happen in the senate, direction we need questions on the polling in maine. susan collins could be interested in what voters in maine are thinking about. and other states where republicans are up for reelection where it could really turn their vote one way or the other on impeachment. >> yeah, and those senators, we will hear from their constituents as well. it would be nice to have some...

If youre going into an impeachment fight, which of those bases would you rather have. so i think looking at what trump did today, i think he looked at what happened over the last three weeks and he said whatever were doing it isnt working and we have to try to stop that somehow. throwing sand in the beers. >> it seems like we need, very soon, state by state polls to understand what might happen in the senate, direction we need questions on the polling in maine. and other states where republicans...

A donald trump. so they put a remedy in the constitution so that someone like a donald trump could be stopped. and its just absurd that congress is not acting. this is not a popularity contest. this is not a beauty pageant. we are talking about their constitutional duty. we have donald trump who truly believes he is above the law, period, full stop. hes obstructing congress. he is obstructing justice. and nothing hes not going to stop unless congress steps up and stops him. >> one thing that was...

Of donald trump. its to make directives like that and i think we will probably find that that may be what motivated michael cohen to lie to congress. >> harry litman, let me ask you about that. this pattern of lying is something that in donald trumps mind, he described in an interview sunday to cbs. even with the definition of a crime is seems to be lost on the chief executive of the country, the person who sits atop the federal law enforcement bureaucracy. >> yeah, i mean, from a policy standpo...

Impulses, but, as we know, the president casts a wide net with who he was talking to and apparently he was talking to folks that were firing him up, pushing him to want to pursue comey and hillary clinton. and, you know, the white house counsel was doing his best to serve his client. >> and the article also says, susan, that the president is deeply disappointed in the fbi director, christopher wray, whom he now sees as weak because he wasnt assertive enough in launching an investigation of hilla...

Why is rudy so messy? he works for a really messy client. >> i think what rudy giuliani is trying to do is get in front of the american people with evidence he knows thats bad thats going to come out in ways. he executes in a very bad way and says things that are not true on national tv, ratchet that back, and his client undercuts him. he has the right idea. >> are we all falling for his trap? thats what hes doing, throwing sand. hes throwing up as much confusion, were all talking about that rat...