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This. i think in fairness. everybody -- but rex tillerson miss managed his way out of this job. stick around. before we go, though to break remember the life of a pioneer on capitol hill. congresswoman lor he's slaughter, the first female chair of the house rules committee and one of the longest serving democrats in history. she was in the middle of serving her 16th term. she won the seat back in 1986. speaker ryan called her tough, unfailingly gracious and unrelenting and fighting for her ideas. louis slaughter, a true trail blazer was 88.

Mean an end to his work. it just meant a replacement of the special prosecutor. so, maybe in this instance if robert mueller were fired we would see someone replace him to continue that work. >> barbara, good to talk to you as always. barbara mcquade is san nbc news contributor and former u.s. attorney. tributes are pouring in from both sides of the aisle for congressman louise slaughter who died after falling this her home wednesday. she was in upstate new york and the first woman to chair the powerful house rules committee. she remained the ranking democrat on the committee until her death...

At $16.4 trillion, our nation's total debt is larger on our entire country. we can't add a trillion dollars to the debt every year as we have for the past four years. a major credit rating agency is already down -- has downgraded our nation's credit once and if we don't make real progress on spending reforms more downgrades are likely, in the near future. >> rick: he says the first priority in congress every year is coming up with a spending plan and admits it can be tough and says families have to come up with their own budget for their households lawmakers should be able to do it too. >> art...

They get out of the private market, this never would have happened. that's why it's important to get out of the private market and let the economy be driven by the consumers. me and you and federal government involved in the private markets are a no win situation. >> no the plumber, thank you very much for joining me tonight, joe. >> thanks, mr. o'donnell. >> joining me now is marcie captor who is running for her 16th term in the united states congress representing the ninth district in ohio. i don't think you expected to be running against joe the plumber, but here you are. he opposed the aut...

November, i suggest he run for one of them. fund, i feel strongly that he is not my leader, he does not make policy for me do it. >> reporter: when congressman issa came out with the strong statement on c-span michael steele was in the process of walking back his earlier statements, and, steele has not lost his job yet, but, issa's criticism is shared across the country among republicans the r.n.c. chairman, is sometimes a bit of a problem and here you have the california republican running for his 6th term, in an anti-incumbent, anti-washington year, bill, and, yet, he's uncontested, and usin...