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I mean, the electoral vote act issue chuck schumer is pretty well dug in saying he doesn't want to touch that, he thinks it's kind of a distraction issue almost to change small procedural things if there are still giant in his view voting rights issues out in the country that need to be solved. i don't know where this goes and i think that's the frustration for democrats. politically speaking they run up against all the same proceed blocks that have bedeviled them in trying to pass any other element of their agenda. how to keep this issue in the spotlight in a way that might, you know, force t...

Nadler came out of that meeting, he appeared to take up one of the talking points that she gave him in the meeting, which is the courts are coming to the rescue. we have to look to the courts. it shows the power of pelosi. after the election, there was lot of talk and concern she might not be speaker. ever since then, she's solidified her power on the caucus. how long can she put this off? is it enough to sequel tquell t impeachment rebellion? >> we're seeing the power of pelosi persuasion on nadler, from rachel's reporting. jennifer, i want to bling yringn because i have questions about what ...

The comment that he should be focusing on republicans, the congressional leadership fund has driven an enormous amount of money driven by paul ryan, and it was there keep the house fund. he has also campaigned for 55 candidates over the course of this campaign. hasn't been highly visible out there, but i think when it comes to all of the races, he has certainly been a presence. but when it comes to, clearly, on paul ryan's side he feels like this was sort of a distraction issue that was brought up, and he is trying to sort of knock it down and say let's move back to the more important issues. ...

What do you point to that's legislatively accomplished? >> i agree, there have not been accomplishments, and that's a fault that falls squarely on the shoulders of paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. the leadership has not done their job. but looking at tax reform, the leadership knows they have to get this done. there is no possibility of failure on this. and so, i think it will get done. i think it's -- i wish it would be more dramatic and bigger tax cuts for all americans, but i think in the end, they're going to get this passed, and that is going to be something that they're going to have to ru...

Some of the more moderates. are you surprised. >> well, you remember, the house had a vote on something similar i guess it was a weeks ago about gender reassignment surgery that about 25 about 25 republican supported this against the wishes of a lot of conservative republicans. you already knew this was not going to be as clean cut as a d versus r liberal issue at the get-go. we thought this was going to be a distraction issue. right now the president is standing with fox con at the white house. if he really wanted to have a good distracting issue, jobs. jobs, jobs, committee. not this. if tha...