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defense spending. but for the rest of the government agencies, the majority of government agencies are only funded about another five weeks through march 23rd. they'll have to revisit a budget bill by march 23rd and that is where the red line will be on dacaen an frankly most of tonight's controversies will be behind us. this isolates the degreer issue for both the democrats but also for the republicans to figure out how to finally settle it or to walk away from a deal. >> and jose barro, is the legal dynamics on daca change add bit when a federal judge prevented the trump administration from going ahead with their basically stopping daca on march 5th. but that doesn't make recipients any more comfortable with this. what nancy pelosi said in her letter tonight to paul ryan was a request that he do the same thing that mitch mcconnell is doing which is to basically schedule votes on daca and make
that is a live shot of the senate floor at this hour. at 1:36 or so a.m. they are now voting on final passage of that budget bill. rand paul has given up on his stunts on the senate floor that have been delaying this. back with us, adam, david jolly and jose barro. adam, you used to work for the majority leader of the senate. you've seen these things before. rand paul had a couple of more hopeless procedural moves he could have played out but after his 90 minutes anyway of creating a 90-minute government shutdown so far, he decided to fold his tent and let the rote go forward. he just lost the previous procedural vote, 73-26. so it would have been nothing but childish to continue. >> that's right. but i think the fact that he didn't go through with all of
senator harry reid and the director of public affairs for democracy forward. also david jolly, former republican congressman from florida and jose barro with us in new york a senior editor for business insider and contributor. garrett haake, you are at the scene of the action in the thick of it. what's the situation now? >> well, lawrence, rand paul has just been back up on the floor making one more speech. essentially calling out his own party for democrats. there's some i think delight among some democrats in hearing rand paul make the argument that conservatives can't only be conservative on spending and on the budget when they're in the minority and ignore these same things when they're in the majority. there's also a sense of deep frustration going on from both parties a, that they're even standing here at this late hour and not having voted this over to the house and made it their problem from republicans who would like to be able to take credit for having done some form
that is a live shot of the senate floor at this hour. at 1:36 or so a.m. they are now voting on final passage of that budget bill. rand paul has given up on his stunts on the senate floor that have been delaying this. back with us, adam, david jolly and jose barro. adam, you used to work for the majority leader of the senate. you've seen these things before. rand paul had a couple of more hopeless procedural moves he could have played out but after his 90 minutes anyway of creating a 90-minute government shutdown so far, he decided to fold his tent and let the rote go forward. he just lost the previous procedural vote, 73-26. so it would have been nothing but childish to continue. >> that's right.
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support him, they could be undermined public trust. he's essentially asking for people to have loyalty toward him as a personal person instead of having a loyalty to the constitution which is -- which is essentially i think unprecedented. that's a very hard thing even for republicans to really get at. it's going to be interesting how republicans couch that if we see movement on this in the future, if congress is going to start letting cabinet members fire people because of political views that are personally held. >> all right. ya meesh alcindor and jose barro. thanks. and president trump spent a lot of time talking about the economy and tax cuts. how much that will matter by the time voters head to the polls in november. stay with us. >> this nagging sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, that this is not right. this is not who obviously we are. ♪
contributor. and jose barro. ya meesh, when we talk about the role of russia in the speech or the lack of a role for russia in the speech, there's the investigation itself but also there's the question of russian meddling in the election, a governmental response to it, possible changes in policy and an approach for future elections and no reference at all to any of that in the speech. >> as soon as i got my hands on the speech which was about 13 pages, the first thing i did was search for the word russia. as far as i could tell it appeared one time in the clip you played where he talked about russia being a rival and somewhat of a challenge for our economy. he would not go into russian -- into the russian government's actions or future actions in our elections. this is something that's continuing to plague the united states. we don't yet have and i say we meaning government agencies and social media companies, don't yet have the an idea of exactly what russia did in the 2016 election. now we have midterms coming up and there could continuously
reward good workers and top remove federal employees who obviously undermine the public trust or fail the american people. >> and joining us now is yamiche alcindor and jose barro. yamiche, when we talk about the role of russia in the speech or the lack of a role for russia in the speech, there's the investigation itself but also there's the question of russian meddling in the election, a governmental response to it, possible changes in policy and an approach for future elections and no reference at all to any of that in the speech. >> as soon as i got my hands on the speech which was about 13 pages, the first thing i did was search for the word russia. as far as i could tell it appeared one time in the clip you played where he talked about russia being a rival and somewhat of a challenge for our economy. he would not go into russian -- into the russian government's actions or future actions in our elections.
and in the case of andrew mccabe, the idea was he lost the trust of his superiors because his wife chose to take money from the clintons. there's this idea now that the president is endorsing the fact that if you have an employee whose spouse didn't vote for trump or doesn't support donald trump or even if you find out your own employee didn't vote for donald trump or doesn't support him, they could be undermined public trust. he's essentially asking for people to have loyalty toward him as a personal person instead of having a loyalty to the constitution which is -- which is essentially i think unprecedented. that's a very hard thing even for republicans to really get at. it's going to be interesting how republicans couch that if we see movement on this in the future, if congress is going to start letting cabinet members fire people because of political views that are personally held. >> all right. yamiche alcindor and jose barro. thanks. and president trump spent a lot of time talking about the economy and tax cuts. how much that will matter by the time voters head to the polls in november. stay with us. >> this nagging sinking feeling,
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