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Circumstances are for the military if the deal doesn't get done. he wasn't always a defense hawk. the moderator said in all his 30 years in the defense world, it was the first time he had seen a speaker of the house make this kind of plea for defense spending. >> the defense budget is being held hostage for daca, which is not a deadline that expires tomorrow. good faith negotiations are underway right now but we should not be be holding hostage the military for this. >> congress is likely to pass another short term spending bill to fund the government but that doesn't get the military its desp...

Take a listen. >> do you have the votes? >> i don't know. we just -- you know, we're kind of figuring out what we're doing as of last night. we're hearing the plan. i guess our friends at the freedom club decided they wanted to oppose this. so we'll see. but you know, i ultimately think we're going to get through. i'm a little less optimistic this time than i was, say, december 23rd. that's not what i'm hearing from the freedom club, our friends over there. i don't know what their reasoning is because they're not the ones that have been advocating for robust military spending. in fact, many of...

Background. he spent a lot of time in the federal government and he knows a lot of people. joe lieberman, by the way, 75 years old. so he would be sort of up there in terms of age as far as the history of fbi directors go. but i think that the president likes him because he was a democrat, he's an independent. he's a defense hawk. he's tough on law enforcement. i think a lot of democrats probably see joe lieberman as much of the republican ideology than they do the actual democratic ideology, though he continued to caucus with the democratic party after going independent. we do not know in the...

On the first few weeks of his presidency. it's likely to be positive feedback because among the invited house members are the president's first supporters. >> mick mulvaney is the president's pick to be budget director. his nomination may be the latest test of the trump administration and its calls for the gop to get behind these picks. let's break it down with our brianna keilar and manu raj new. manu, it's been a tough road for mulvaney, it looks like he's going to get the votes but he doesn't have the support of big name republicans including senator john mccain. >> reporter: that's absolut...

A nanny, whatever. i said yes. they sent me an irs circular. first time i had seen it. i read it. it became immediately clear to me i made a mistake and the irs viewed our baby-sitter as a household employee for whom we should have withheld taxes. i will pay any penalties, any interest, any late fees, and abide by the law to the best of my ability. >> now, jake, just moments ago he had his second confirmation hearing of the day before the senate home land security and government affairs committee. and in that committee, senator john mccain tore into his views about shorter -- smaller defense b...