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>> jen psaki was asked yesterday whether or not the president supported the diz solution of this. you mentioned that congress works well around deadline, congressman schumer has said a christmas deadline to try to get the bill through. what's the latest reporting about the state of negotiations between white house and congress on the agenda? >> absolutely. senator schumer, we've heard him say even as recently as this week, we're still on track for a christmas deadline. i think that's very optimistic. what we saw, senator manchin has been in talks with the president and he's a little less optim...

Last year's primaries. we saw a number of candidates advocate for that as candidate biden didn't. but now he's going to come under pressure from his own party to say, okay, obamacare is no longer under threat. what should we do to expand or improve on it? >> benji solomon, you tweeted something that caught our attention, saying you think this is the last hurrah for repeal efforts. why do you think this is the case and how will congressman schumer try to build on it? >> there is one type of argument that seems to be ending, either bypassing a bill in congress or a comprehensive replacement or g...

Schumer has come a long way. Now, after victories for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in competitive Senate runoffs in Georgia, Schumer — whose career took off from the depths of dirty Holocaust digs and Yiddish swears — will become the first-ever Jewish Senate Majority leader. “The fact that he will be elevated to that position by the victories of a Jewish and Black candidate in the South should give us all hope for a more just world,” said Rob Raich, a longtime former president of Schumer’s Park Slope synagogue, Congregation Beth Elohim, in an email. “I believe Senator Schumer wi...

Give the witnesses the house has been asking for. >> mitch mcconnell and congressman schumer trying to hash out that that's going to look like, the trial in the senate. >> and can go to the floor of the senate and move to get a vote for to set the ground rules of the senate trial, and he can do that with a simple majority vote. meaning 51 republican senators can vote to do just that. i'm hearing from multiple republican sources that is certainly an option still on the table. he wants to try to cut a deal with chuck schumer. but chuck schumer wants the witnesses agreed to up front, documents re...

Decision on witnesses and documents and why do you think chuck schumer's will go along with that, if he will? political pressure being in the minority? >> jessica what mitch mcconnell is saying, look, we want to use the same rules in the senate we used for the bill clinton impeachment trial back in 1998. that was exactly as you laid out. opening statements, an opportunity for questions. then to decide whether or not witnesses get called. i think what's very different here, though, in the case of bill clinton, while there was certainly fighting about the substance of the bill clinton impeachmen...