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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 absolutely right, john mccain actually coming out yesterday forcefully opposing mulvaney because of his views, mulvaney s views on defense spending, because mulvaney was a conservative member of the house freedom caucus that was very aggressive in opposing big military budgets, trying to cut that spending, and mccain being a defense hawk, is trying to boost ....
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 budgets. mccain of course a defense hawk and wants to expand defense spending and they got into it. it will be interesting to see whether or not john mccain ends up voting for him or some defense hawks end up joining democrats in opposing his nomination. if that s the case it could be a very close vote and maybe donald trump may not get the budget director he wants, jake. manu raju, thank you so mu ....
and mentioned for secretary of state. and you ve already seen rand paul, senator from kentucky saying he will do everything in this power to not have that happen. he is a defense hawk. senator rand will join us later in the hour. seeing that already. a give and take you re seeing they have to contend with within their own party let alone the democrats. molly what are you hearing? friction, all sorts of colorful descriptions. a lot of friction in part because his victory was so unexpected, people didn t have a chance to fight over the spoils beforehand. now everyone has suddenly jumped in. the divisions within the republican party that existed before exist and are xexasperatd today. signaled pointed coequals in the west wing, steve bannon and reince priebus, he wants a degree of internal conflict. mike pence, regular republican. congressional republican. someone who, i think, republicans look at and think, a ....
Doing abortions. but as you know there could be a stalemate in congress. is it worth shutting down the government over it? it s something i would have to think about, to be honest with you. when it comes to the gop it appears to be a skichl among them about where a social issues like abortion will fall and will be prioritized, governor. well, if you look at the republican and conservative movement it s a coalition. it s a quilt, if you will, that includes social conservative, economic conservative, libertarians, tea party types, defense hawk, chamber of commerce types, and more. so you can t be a successful nominee or a successful candidate for president unless you can appeal across that spectrum. social conservatives remain important but they re not the only voice. marley if you want to win the general election. the planned parenthood issues are important. don t get me wrong. what planned parenthood has been doing with these fetal body parts is outrageous and they should get a ....
Are working together. you have bipartisan support in the house and think you re going to reach agreement with the white house. what about the senate? senator feinstein and chambliss and rogers and myself work very closely together. we had a meeting two days ago about where the senate is going to be. right now the senate will wait until we do what we have to do in the house. but we all care about the same thing, providing privacy and yet maintaining the ability to protect our citizens from terrorist attacks. and that s the whole focus of where we are and we feel good about coming together in a by sart san way. it usually doesn t happen a lot in this town but we hope it will happen now because the stakes are so high. thank you so much for being with us today, we appreciate it. bye. james schlessinger, leading defense hawk and cabinet member under nixon and ford and carter died at the age of 85. he served as cia director and ....