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Against, and he's going to lose, i will tell you that, i think not just her -- not just what she's doing being speaker, she's protecting the integrity of article one that i mentioned earlier. president trump was going to come and give the state of the union speech. wait a minute, you didn't get invited. this is the people's house. and i think that's symbolic of what's happening between the executive and the legislative branch. she's doing a great job. >> two years ago, my colleague don lemon asked you whether you believe speaker pelosi was more toxic than donald trump to some people across the...

We'll give you regular appropriations bills for everything but homeland security, and we'll just fund that through the rest of the year at flat level or we'll just flat level fund everything. they have shown the white house all these cards up to now. >> this new line that we're now hearing coming from the white house that schumer's ready to make a deal, but it's pelosi holding things up. do you see any evidence of a crack in what has been to this point a united front between the house and senate democratic leaders? >> no. and with all due respect to mr. mulvaney, pelosi has the votes to be spe...

And maybe those two won't, but some of the others will because what they're doing is taking up slots that the freshmen who promised to vote against her could use, you know, for every note vote against her by one of the veteran incumbents in a safe district, it's a slot for one of the freshmen. >> let's be clear. all of these moderate members who ran campaigns and said they would vote against pelosi. she would be fine if that was okay, she would still become speaker. >> not only that, she's probably happy to let them do that. make it easier for them in their campaigns. >> and she would rather h...

Class. the romney small government republicans of which he was sort of the type will look around and say maybe this isn't my party anymore. if paul ryan is not sticking around with everything that comes from being speaker, why should i. i think it could potentially have significant ripple effects into 2018 and i think we'll start to see that over the next couple weeks. we're going to hit filing dead laines relatively soon. >> the phone lines are burning up at the rnc and dnc and elsewhere. thank you for that. on this businey morning, we hav another big breaking story. president trump just tele...