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Trump alone. Wow. Fascinating. Thank you. Cnn this morning continues right now pochlt. This is cnn breaking news. It is the top of the pour. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Monitoring two big stories right now. Jim jordan about to give a News Conference in minutes as he tries yet again to become House Speaker after failing multiple times. We are also following several big developments in israels war with hamas. Today President Biden is back from the war zone and calling on congr...

That are happy to see this day come. >> youre exactly right. and he -- i said once on conservative radio, he deserves a medal of freedom. this guy is a hero, because at the center of all of these political storms that he faced, he described, he never wavered. his commitment was to the institution. the other book-end to his accomplishments is that he never became anything other than a regular guy. and, you know, i know you covered the popes visit. i really think there was something about being fa...

>> nbc has a report out, could the black caucus leverage votes in race for the speaker? and one of the things that is in here, it could come down to third or fourth ballot where the congressional black caucus, you can correct me on the number, i think its 46 members. they could be a bloc that could determine who the next speaker is. who would the cbc be looking for? >> i will tell you i can say pretty comfortable the cbc will be voting for nancy pelosi as speaker. >> any of you have -- suzy, did...

You dont anymore. midterm elections have become nationalized because of the way the media works, because of the way the party works. and its unlikely that youre going to see many legislators just running local anymore. republicans are going to run on president obama, on health care, on arguments about the economy. and a lot of democrats might separate themselves from president obama, but theyre going to talk about extremism in the republican party, theyre going to talk about the need for a highe...

Current congress which is led by the house and to which boehner responds, are you kidding me? we know this is not a valerie jarrett problem. its far bigger than that. this is about people that dont want to move and the brinksmanship that is plaguing the united states capitol. >> bob, the brinksmanship in d.c. is undeniably one of the biggest political stories of the year, if not the political story of the year. any hope that this is something that is going to subside in 2014 or is that also goin...

Boehner. his constituents in ohio have their own opinion of the job he is doing. here is joe johns. >> reporter: this is where john boehner came from, working class cincinnati. he has been in congress since 1990 and now at a pivotal moment in washington and in a bitter battle over obama care. house speaker john boehner has a 48% unfavorable rating which is an all-time high in cnn polling. >> nobody knows what the rules are. >> reporter: andys cafe, which boehners family owned, the shutdown was n...

Outlines of a solution coming clear in which boehner is going to sell letting the bush tax cuts for the top income expire to his people as a down payment on tax reform. the way that would work is this. that change will raise about $80 billion in 2013. so that is a democrats down payment, what they get, that $80 billion. democrats by the same token will give up $80 billion in spending cuts, be it from discretionary spending or entitlements to match what republicans are giving them on taxes and as...

in taxes, thats the headline from mitt romneys tax returns. it was released today. going to have a breakdown ahead. right now romney is on the campaign trail, hes in tampa focusing his attention on president obama. were actually waiting to hear from him and what hes calling a prebuttal to the presidents state of the union address. and rick santorum campaigning in stuart, florida, this hour. florida primary just seven days away. republican candidates are facing off for more -- one mor...

having it? >> its not that simple. they have to come up with some compromise, some sort of plan that can pass the senate and go back to the house of representatives and pass there something that the president could sign that would allow the united states to raise the debt ceiling and avert some sort of financial disaster come tuesday. its not simple at all, so they need to work together. the mainstream, main leadership, democrats and republicans, they need to find a way to come up with...

for the first time in the history of our country unless there is a compromise or they accept my bill, were headed for economic disaster. its time for republicans to step forward. theres been some movement today. as i indicated on the floor, i was having a meeting in my office this afternoon with some splun and that fell through. as they were walking into a conference, three republican senators said they were interested in my bill, interested in compromise. they need to step forward. ...