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Guiterrez. yesterday he said senate democrats melted like a candle in the heat, and now he's colluding from trump. they went from melting to collusion. >> right. so this is -- this is driven in part by the pressure she feels to hold firm and not to go forward with the caps deal without a commitment on a vote. chuck schumer got the commitment to move forward and he could bank that and move forward, if she doesn't get anything it is a tough situation for her. and as congressman guiterrez pointed out, the defense caps are the last major piece of leverage they have. it is something this republican...

Compensate, say, the market goes up it goes down, corrects itself, kind of has a life of its own. if that's true -- >> if it has a life of its own, how does the president take credit for the market? >> exactly. that's the trap he's in right now. >> you guys are trying to impose rationality and logic on the white house. that is -- with this white house, that's a complete error. nothing matters except whatever the supreme leader says. remember when he was running for president, trump was saying the stock market was a big bubble. now he's saying this is great this is all my doing. of course now i...

>> what changed is an incremental improvement in our ability to apply leverage to the senate. so we passed in the house, since september 14th, full funding for our military at $621 billion, which is a pretty big increase. it is more than what the president asked for in his budget. and frankly the reason is is military readiness. we have got some real issues, those have been highlighted by some training fatalities. and so we have tried to call attention to that. the concession we got was a vote before the state of the union, not just on the number, but on a defense cap. we're up against the bca...

At the post kadavy post saddam hussein, post hose any mubarak significant challenge that's would continue to royal the internal aspects of syria. so what we've done instead is tried to work with partners to find the moment when there could be a negotiated political end to the government and the next move forward. and that in all likelihood would lead to assad being gone but some elements of the minority that is currently governing possibly remaining in place to run basic municipal services that would be needed by the syrian people. >> you said yesterday, senator harold ford, good morning. >> g...