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>> jake sherman there on capitol hill, maybe you can shed light, add some context on another point of contention in that meeting. that was, look, this deadline coming up a week from this friday, republicans for this period of time still control the house, still have the majority. democrats not taking over until january. so in that meeting, you had donald trump repeatedly saying, hey, look, this 5 billion bucks, this border wall, i could get this through the house right now. nancy pelosi repeatedly saying back to him, no, you can't. you don't have the votes. do you have a sense who's right on t...

Now they want to change the rules. when you have members of the caucus led by some individuals and they continue to defend or support trump or support many of the right wing initiatives -- >> that is not going to fly. >> i'm not really sure what he's talking about, but i'll tell you, we've talked about this many times, whether it was prison reform passed on the house floor. which is now hopefully going to the senate. >> this is jared kushner's baby. it's mitch mcconnell who said let's think about this later. >> in the house, we'll keep working on getting premiums down. we've made great progres...

Funding bill to reopen government. so they have defined the courage to not only vote for that but to sign a petition that will give them the opportunity to vote for that as well as the rest of the congress. this will force the speaker to bring that senate bill to the floor to allow us to open government so that we can get the american people back to work. they've said they support a clean funding bill, but they need to find the courage to sign the petition, which may be a little harder for them because it's really an action that will force the speaker to do something that so far he's been unwi...

Authorizing the use of action against syria. 19 no votes. but there are 56 undecided votes in the u.s. senate so real lobbying still going on there. but the real uphill battle is in the house where it's just lean very, very heavily against authorizing the use of force. here are the numbers, 24 yes votes in the house. 119 no votes in the house. 270 undecided and there are 20 what they call unknown votes. presumably, those are votes where members have made up their minds but they're just not revealing what they're going to vote. there you have it. the consensus even the democratic caucus led by ...

Had discretionary spending increases. you know, the budget of this country this year is twice what it was 11 years ago, and a good portion of that is discretionary. some of it, $100 billion a year is the war, but the rest of the government has grown. so we have to do both. and we have to make sure that whatever we do does not hurt us but gets us on the way to recovery. >> let me get to joe klein on the politics of this. my contention is unless the liberal caucus led by nancy pelosi, a huge majority of democrats who are hard core liberals, unless they see teeth marks in the neck of eric cantor ...