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Democrats have gotten on the daca vote, make sure there is a vote on daca. which by the way, if you -- if not for the hastert rule, you will have a majority of the house who will vote for that. but this is how the house is supposed to work. there are things in the bill that democrats want and things in this bill that republicans want. not a majority of republicans will be for this but if you put it on the floor you'll get a bipartisan piece of legislation by the majority of the house. the problem for speaker ryan is in his caucus and his caucus politics, but from a legislative standpoint, he h...

Of democrats and a lot of republicans seem to be on board with this. the democrats have extracted a promise from senator mcconnell to move forward with an open fair process on daca. they can tell their base they received that. in the house, things are more tenuous. leadership today actively whipped against this. they sent a notice to members urging a "no" vote because speaker ryan is refusing to make the same commitment at mitch mcconnell did to allow a bipartisan process. ryan said he wants to resolve this issue. he is committed to putting something on the floor as long as the president suppo...

Behalf of them because it was their story in their words by and large that i told, in addition to the bible and the catholic conference of bishops and pope francis and pope benedict, so many other religious groups that we have. but i thanlik all of you and ou basic request is honor the house of representatives. give us a chance to have a vote on the floor. the republican leader in the senate -- >> there you hear, that is the core message from nancy pelosi, finishing up here an 8 hour and so minu 10 minute record breaking speech, the longest speech in the house of representatives, she's outline...

Waters, someone who knows her way around parliamentary procedure herself. >> she's l ee's literally just from me here right now. >> it seems exceptional and it seems dramatic. and i ask you, how does this get you closer to the daca vote? and do you think that the senate democrats have wavered a little bit because they seem to be extending republican compromises and funding now, without getting -- i'm watching the same feeds as you are, i didn't see a daca vote and they want to do another funding cr is what they want to do. >> i think what she's speaking to, is that over 80% of americans that h...

It would say that even if dems got about 50% of the vote, under a gop jerr jerrgerrymandered se of the seats. i ask you, how is that even legal? i have news for you, it's not. >> the pennsylvania supreme court threw out the state's congressional map. it ruled that districts had been so heavily jergerrymandered to p republicans that it violated the constitution. >> 13 of the state's 18 congressional districts went to republicans in to 2016. that's 13 republican, five democratic, that is a district that's completely out of whack in the swing state. >> you know who else thought it was whack, the ...