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the senate does not have. so is this going to get done today, tomorrow, or certainly before june 5th? >> reporter: we're hoping before june 5. senators are trying to haggle if they can do this today or if they can do this tomorrow. there is a real desire here to not have to work the weekend, and it's probably a combination of that desire, some jet fumes, the need to get out of town, and then also an agreement on amendments that's likely to get us there. one of the things that's holding this up is people like senator lindsey graham who are unhappy about the way they see defense spendi...

the president out in farm country today pushing the same, tired talking points. blaming pollutant and those greedy corporations. bite and to take responsibility as we learn the surge in prices is stuck at a 40 year high. g.o.p. lawmakers calling out the president for his inaction. >> joe biden will blame anyone but himself for this. he's blamed chicken farmers, everyone else under the sun. >> president biden is flailing around, swinging blindly, hoping something will land. >> the truth is that the biden administration just keeps kicking its own -- after 14 months, nothing is built. n...

You, put you on the spot. your view, is ryan almost certainly out? >> i don't know almost certainly out, but candidly, it's not a bad thing for him to contemplate. and i would argue for him to do. there's a bunch of reasons. i'll go through them quickly. number one, there may not be a speakership for him to leave, jim. this is a 50/50, 40/60 proposition in the house. you don't to want look like you're running out of town. number two, you have to do the best you can with the circumstances you have. getting tax reform, and i know there's some back and forth on this. let's assume they get it. tha...

>> and yet, that's the question, right? because it all seems like he is playing these 40/60 politics. meaning 40% of the public is with him. 60% is against him. >> uh-huh. >> which shouldn't work in a majority democracy and yet it is somehow working. >> think about this, chris. his first goal is to try to control the republicans as much as he can. and so what he is doing with that 40%, which still remains a super majority of republicans is to control the party, control his chance going forward, try to discipline or jettison republicans who don't agree with him by threatening to get them primar...

Ja jared kushner didn't disclose. that's all being looked into. democrats ahead of the fact saying there's collusion. as the some counsel investigates, bob mueller is looking at financial ties. what starts over here in these investigations can go here and here. as this plays out, the president lashing out on twitter, an associated press poll out, has tried to impede or obstruct the rush investigation. yes, 61%. no, 37%. the trump base, no. but again, we don't know what happened. but if six in ten americans think there president is trying to impede an investigation, that's a problem and not jus...