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Up because you need eight to vote for a bill. >> the threshold they have to get over and they wouldn't be able to do that with republicans alone. you voted for this house spending bill that has money for the wall -- >> i did. >> even though you're lukewarm on the idea, you expressed how you are upset with the process. >> can i explain that? >> the government is expected to be in a shutdown until december 27th, perhaps even longer. will you vote the same way? >> when i get a bill that funds the government, i will vote for it. i would have preferred to have a clean cr vote. we didn't have that. ...

Other the independence of the department has been breached? >> the department has to hold its own against constant efforts to breach it, including by the president himself. when the president sends out tweets that criticize the fbi or when he sends out tweets that challenge the credibility of jim comey, who is likely at some point going to be a witness in this investigation, those send signals to the political people in the department and even to eager line officials who might want the president's approval as to what it is that he wants to do and he ought to knock it off. i think there's actua...

"no" on the cr vote that just happened a short while ago. it passed with the majority of the democratic caucus voting no. a 17 or 16 members of the democratic caucus and angus king voting "yes." why were you a "no" vote? >> well, we wanted to send a strong message that the republicans need to work with us and pass a responsible spending measure. they've been completely fixated with the tax bill for so long, they haven't been able to do two things at once and we need to catch up and get the children's health insurance program funded and we have an opioid epidemic raging in america and we need t...

Anything. this worked into democrats hands, and this vote that went down earlier, this three week cr vote, will be a shiny example of an issue with house republican leadership in the house conference not being able to pass a bill that needs to pass. >> and not being able to pass their own bill. we had, as soon as this session started, we had the house leadership put forward their own bill on restricting abortion rights and they yanked it. they put forward a border security bill and yanked it. now again with this three week bill, they could not pass it because of problems on their own side. it ...

Country. that's what this is about. there's things i don't like about obama care. there's things i don't like about an energy policy. i won't hold this country hostage and have millions of people suffering because of what i like and don't like. i came here to represent the people and do the before the i can for my country and the state of west virginia. i'm going to do that. i hope our leaders will move ahead. you can't worry about those who are looking for a reason to be against something. you better find those of us who are for something. >> up think there's enough of you. >> do i. >> also i...