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Theirs out of here, this has all the ear marks of a ploy. the way this was set up, russian foreign minister lavrov is reported publicly to have proposed to putin that russia expel 35 american diplomats so they report the hemmings of the foreign men stir and then vladimir putin says, no, no, we wind do that. what a sweetheart. really. and then, it's reported in the russian press that they've invited the children of families of american diplomats in moscow to the christmas party. eastern orthodox christmas. invited the christian to christmas party. this guy has got a heart of gold, right? so, th...

Selling life insurance. another one, you can go hang yourself. we saw some of this with the fema attacked democrats. but that is more than just the jockeying that the congressman described. >> yeah. i think there are a couple key differences that they're talking about. that so much more of this is happening publicly. it is happening over twitter. it is happening over these websites that didn't exist. it is a much more fragmented environment. and then also, the party leadership does not have the sort of carrots they could use in the past in these private meetings. no ear marks. citizens united ...

Wants the u.s. to take a backseat. what does that mean for germany? all of these will be discussed. it will be a one-on-one meeting today. a dinner later tonight and a mini summit with other eu le leaders. >> a critical time. thank you, atika shubert, in berlin. the house speaker paul ryan is pushes the pause button on the spending bill. he says the country just finished the drain the swamp election. the last thing is a pet project attached to spending proposals. banning the ear marks has been a third rail in congress for years. that measure expected to be taken up next spring. two will le...

>> sometimes you can fine out there are some actually good reasons. you look at -- back when we had ear marks. they used to set aside hundreds of thousands of dollar ands say that's deals with hog waste in north carolina. or the wine industry in washington state. ear marks that only cost several hundred thousand dollars but very important for the economies of the states, and you take those out. then those industries clean. >> all right. buddy, you have beside a couple hundred tread truckers waiting outside for you. let me know how that goes. chad, very very much. in me meantime, we're talking ...

Payne. charles, my issue with the good congressman isn't that he might be very earnest about his particular ear marks to help his particular constituents. i'm more alarmed about going back to a buy the vote mentality that is what ear marks were about. i are give you a bridge you vote for my omnibus legislation. that's what if was talking about. >> absolutely. the abuses of that system were so egregious, the bridges no nowhere, just boggles the mind anyone would try to resurrect that whole idea. here's the thing. we have this massive problem in this country and you can think of is at an ice cre...