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Knowledge. >> it was one of those weeks, where the revelations just kept on coming in on the hill and scott wong had his running shoes on, no doubt. scott, one of the things that did happen was the house vote on syria. condemning here the decision to withdraw u.s. troops. and it was 354, 129 republicans, were in that yea column on the left. and i bring that up here, because as you know, the way it work, the more straws on the camels back here, it could drive some republicans over to support that...

We k can pass the legislation after the wed wave. peter? >> reporter: republicans are not planning to put immigration reform on the shelf despite the leader of the party, president trump to do just that. >> well move forward and it is obviously a uphill fight to put the coalition together. it would be nice if you had one democrat that was willing to vote for a bill to secure americas border and so far none of them are willing to do that. >> reporter: right now gop leadership is trying to stuff m...

Battle that theyre fighting and that they are really trying to get -- as they try to get their hands on the violence problem. richard? >> nbcs john yang in chicago. thank you so much, john. i also want to take you back to the house floor. again reporting for you this hour as we look at the post-vote discussion as well as what they are going through at the moment, we saw just around 11:17 a.m. local time that the vote began. it passed right about four minutes after that. 230 votes at least in t...

Those weapons work. in short, im convinced that americans are safer and more secure with the new treaty than wout it. >> im not proud of this process. im not proud of this lame duck. im not proud of what weve been doing as a party, quite frankly, because weve jeopardized the minority standing in future congresses. were looking at the lame duck which i think is unhealthy for the future of this country. >> the not so subtle dig by lindsey graham saying republicans on this issue and others compromi...