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Congressi congressional appropriations being held up by the executive branch on a temporary basis, it's law, there already are laws that say when congress appropriates certain funds, that money has to go through. but the idea of holding it at any extended period has to go through congress, it's congress appropriating the people's mun, taxpayer money. that has congress sitting up and wondering what exactly happened sneer that here. >> snoo that's wmembers reading texting me saying it's congress's time to get our hands on those budget documents. >> sam is right, there are a lot of questions that...

So this person and it may be more than one person is going to be an enormous target and every security precaution should be taken. i wonder if it will work. but certainly they should try. >> they should obviously try. john kirby democrats now want the impeachment probe to go forward with new documents. they're subpoenaing new documents from the defense secretary mark esper. what sort of information might the pentagon have to be relevant to the impeachment probe. >> i'm sure there is in ternal correspondence on the back and forth over the decisions and want policy about the systems and what the...

Remember just a few weeks ago. >> right. it's definitely theater. it's a hedge for the president who is going to be defeated on this emergency declaration and may hope for some support in the courts. but if he doesn't do that, he still wants to assert his priorities. budget documents are no more than wish lists now. we haven't passed a budget in a long time around here. as a result, this is a president saying he's still something that i care about. defeat or no defeat. this is what i stand for and the wall is campaigning by metaphor. it's just a way of saying i'm going to be tough on the borde...

>> nothing is wrong with the words. the problem comes in excising them. a lot of people have been calling this orwellian. dr. fitzgerald, head of the cdc, said, oh, no, we're not doing that. a spokesperson said this is a mischaracterization. all i can tell you is somebody said something that got to the employees that said they should not use these words in budget documents. that creates self censorship at least. >> just out of curiosity, what happens -- let's pretend they stop using these words like fetus. i don't know what other use you use for transgender. i don't know what other words you c...

Confusion and plenty of outrage after the center for disease control was ordered to ban a list of words including vulnerable, fetus and transgender. "the washington post" reporting trump told the cdc not to use certain words in 2018 budget documents. diversity, transgender, fetus, vulnerable, entitlement, evidence based and science based. >> one long-time policy analyst said it was incredulous. are you serious? are you kidding? the cdc pushing back sending a note to staff saying, in part, cdc has a long standing history making health and budget decisions made by the best science and data and t...