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Republicans are openly fighting against each other now. senate republicans are saying, well, we dont have enough votes to get rid of obama care but lets take it back to the house and let them hang tough. house republicans are saying, why isnt the senate republicans doing it themselves? >> the president calls it extortion. even some fellow republicans disagree on the high-stakes political gamble in place because the fear of backlash from americans who will feel the bite of a shutdown looms becaus...

Football field blowing up, sending flames almost 100 feet into the air. and, we have a winner! lexington, south carolina, home to the latest $400 million powerball winner. youre live in the "cnn newsr m newsroom." ♪ if i had a million dollars ♪ if i had a million dollars >> ah, we can only dream. good morning to you. im carol costello. thank you so much for being with me this morning. we begin on capitol hill. the clock is ticking and the risk of a government shutdown growing. with only en...

Thanks for coming on. what are these guys up to? this is political theater. i think they think there are some head shakers out there who think they have a chance of getting this through. whats the mission here? what do you think? >> the mission is to protect health insurance company profits even if it undermines the middle class. theyll keep doing it for as lock as they have the majority in the house of representatives. theyll do it every day if they have to until they protect the insurance comp...

Even if it undermines the middle class. theyll keep doing it for as lock as they have the majority in the house of representatives. theyll do it every day if they have to until they protect the insurance company profits even if theyre taking away important patient protections from the middle class. house democrats want a vote on comprehensive legislation to create jobs to strengthen the middle class. house republicans want to move backwards and vote 31 times to repeal an important patient protec...

You -- the only conclusion you can draw is this president wants to kick the can down the road on all the issues until after the election. >> you can catch the rest of the exclusive interview on fox news sunday at the top of the hour. >> pa net accusing pakistan of price gouging but others call it extortion demanding $5,000 for each and every supply truck that crosses their border into afghanistan on behalf of nato. back in november, those routes were closed after u.s. forces accidentally killed ...

This is what is happening now. this is actually hang. >> reporter: aside from selling drugs in mexico extortion is real he one of the best business. the cartels dont call it extortion, they call it protection money. you pay us, we protect you. now they are targeting the teachers, saying give us half of your salaries or risk your lives. and now youve got hundreds of schools in acapulco that are shutting down because the teachers are too afraid to show up for work. the reason this is getting so mu...

Club for growth continues. overnight trump tweeted a photo of a letter from that group asking him for $1 million. trump is calling it extortion. nbcs tracie potts is live in washington for us this morning. a lot to go over, tracie. busy labor day for presidential candidates. >> theyre trying to take advantage of all these labor day gatherings. donald trump has a new number two. not too close, though. the real story there is hillary clinton. shes lost her lead in that battleground state. our new ...

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How are they going to lend as much money to small businesses which ultimately leads to economic recovery? right now, the white house has failed the people. and right now, they want the uaw to pull something like this? i mean, its just not going to work and people are going to be irate about it. >> adam, just from a purely business point of view, these loans are baden a things are foreclosed all over the country, is it smart for the uaw to want this to happen? >> well, given how this conversation...

Account set up. a shakedown of bp. look -- >> then changed his mind and apologized under pressure from republican leaders. >> changed his mind under great pressure. the republicans thought, oh, my. he has put his foot in the tar in a big way and made him, joe barton the story of the day rather than tony hayward. >> respond, ken, if you will. that became a huge issue. he frankly isnt the only person expressing that sentiment. a number of conservatives have said something very similar. congresswom...