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candidates had a great night th squad had a bit of a scare. ilhan omar barely surviving her challenge. it shows americans are not buying progressive politics. >> good morning. lets get to businessman tim michaels he beat rebecca clay fish for the republican nomination for governor. while michaels received president trumps backing. his promise to take a stand against the left agenda. >> it seems like we are on a slippery slope toward socialism and it is being cloaked behind all these ot...

Always going to fight for american workers. >> the goal is for the president to spend less time talking about washington process. the staff is supposed to handle most of that. fresh evidence today the challenge is the same no matter who takes the white house lead. the house speaker nancy pelosi says, sure, can you lose a piece or two of the presidents big safety net plan but the speaker says you cant start over. democratic senator joe manchin says the party must do exactly that, start over. with...

Waited for generations for this investment and dont want us to slow down and have the usual washington process where just clearing your throat takes a couple hours it seems. >> i am familiar with that style of speaking on the hill. senator, theres another deadline today getting less attention, thats on the reconciliation package, $3.5 trillion bill not nearly as far along as the bipartisan one. the majority leader wanted all democrats ready to go forward on this, wanted agreement the 50 of you s...

That will be up to general kelly. general kelly respects jared a lot. and general kelly will make that call. i wont make that call. >> were back to "hardball," or romperoom in the case of the white house that is president trump punting on the decision of the security clearance of jared kushner. his decision to stay on the sidelines have left kelly and kushner at an impact. kelly does not plan to recommend to the president that he grant kushner a waiver. but he sun likely to resign if trump ultim...

Way health care is distributed and provided, health insurance, i should say, in this country. it would take the federal money, obamacare and change it and push it all over to the states. so because this is so new and because this is under such a time constraint, theres a warped speed trying to bone up on this and thats just in terms of the process making a lot of people uncomfortable starting with john mccain and he might even be okay in the long term with this really big change, but its too qui...

It harder for them to both cast that vote and then know that theyre going to be taking this political hit. >> its also given members of the senate license to say, okay, this isnt what we want to do. lets slow down. lets look at this again. and youre hearing that from across the republican idealogical spectrum. its not necessarily tea party. its not necessarily moderate. youre hearing it from a lot of republican senators who just want to take a step back. >> let me jump in for one second. this is...

About anything else. but hes been really, i mean, one of the best moments this week is when he was so upset at all the attention christie was getting, that he began attacking the idea that christie had in his speech, that everything was messed up in washington. and you had rand paul defending washington, defending the washington process. i think this goes back to the whole idea that there are these different ideas in the republican party. every time, lake, when christie tried to give a serious s...

Week, when he would like to talk about anything else. but hes been really, i mean, one of the best moments this week is when he was so upset at all the attention christie was getting, that he began attacking the idea that christie had in his speech, that everything was messed up in washington. and you had rand paul defending washington, defending the washington process. i think this goes back to the whole idea that there are these different ideas in the republican party. every time, lake, when c...

Coming over to the white house and they were having this fight again. hes just not going to negotiate. >> heres the interesting thing. people dont care about the debt ceiling being raised. the "wall street journal" just said, the people say dont raise the debt ceiling so the president has to turn around public opinion on that. >> this one, i bet he can turn around. because this one, people are so frustrated with the washington process, so frustrated with the discussion of a shutdown, if he can g...