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Of defense spending and the limits that they have in terms of policy riders they can put in the bills. the effort is to find the group in the middle and get 218 in the house. leadership believes they will get there but there's no question about it. they've got more work to do before the vows votes on it. >> and it is for everybody in the leadership, from the president to democratic leaders, to get this off the table as a campaign topic before the next election, which is obviously why this compromise happened in the first place. phil, thank you so much for that reporting. >> and the senate has ...

Heather: the president recognized we holocaust survivors said they suffered evil beyond description. what was supposed to be a bipartisan effort on prison reform is turning into a 2020 platform. democrats potentially pulling support of the legislation that hit close to home for our next guest, jerry caldwell says these are not just statistics to me, they are my family members, friends, and people i grope with in chicago. the political analyst is lobbying in washington to pass the first step act and joins me to talk about it. thank you for joining us, always a pleasure to have you here. >> than...

>> reporter: that's right. the president is sticking to his immigration rhetoric, talking about the caravan of central american migrants heading to the border, continuing to talk about ending birthright citizenship and some contend -- contentious issues as he campaigns in florida, montana, georgia, working to help republicans running in statewide races where they're on defense like in georgia or trying to pick off a vulnerable democratic incumbent. yesterday the president got some good economic news. he learned along with rest of us that the u.s. economy had added 250,000 jobs in october, keep...

Will it continue to be a big campaign topic? ann coulter will debate. "hannity" starts here. it was the most watched cable news program ever. last night's first republican presidential debate in cleveland did not disappoint. here are some of the major highlights. >> if it weren't for me you wouldn't be talking about illegal immigration, chris. you wouldn't be talking about it. >> if i'm our nominee how is hillary clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? i was raised paycheck. >> we've gotten into the mindset of fighting politically correct war. >> i'm going to run with ...

People on both sides have their argument. others say 300, while it is on the floor, it is a little bit less. >> we have limited resources. we don't have everything we want. the navy has used its resources to buy this bigger and better ship. that is meant to trade off of style. >> you start dropping down into the mid or low two hundreds. and i believe you are going to have to be asking the question, would we not want to be? because at some point, you simply run out of the numbers to generate the presence and thus places. >> governor romney is trying to make this a campaign topic right now, and ...