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American people. leader mcconnell knows it takes 60 votes to pass the spending bill and yet he moved forward with a last-minute extension that he knew lacked the votes. both democrats and republicans voted against that bill. the reason the republican majority had such difficulty finding consensus as they could never get a firm grip on what the president of their party wanted to do. these days, you never know who to deal with when it comes to the republicans. the republican leaders told me to work out a deal with the white house. the white house said it work it out with republican leaders on th...

In opposition the two parties in the grand coalition obviously had a very big majority and some people said that that caused among other things debate in the parliament to be rather dull where i can assure you that that debate in the parliament starting today will certainly not be dull and that's something that analysts say that could make things a bit more interesting to see different opinions represented in the parliament but obviously that could also mean that finding consensus will become more difficult to see anything interesting on the on the first day what's on the agenda thomas for the...

President, along with ryan and some of the others. their endorsement means nothing to me. >> it's not good how easily when congressional leaders names are on the lips of constituents not from their home states. that's usually not a good sign for said kong leader. if moore minutes, mcconnell's life in washington gets each harder. i'm sure folks in his office are going how can it get harder. whipping votes, and finding consensus. corker's announcement today, does that foreshadow the retirement of sort of mcconne mcconnell-like senators. moore is a flame thrower. if he wins by double digits mitch...

I met with our chairman earlier today. he made it clear to me the votes wouldn't be there from their team. that was sufficient to provide the have balance to not have this bill pass. >> mr. speaker, you all swept the house, won the majority with the promise to repeal obamacare. the majority in the senate to repeal obamacare.the white house with the promise to repeal obamacare. how do go home to your constituents saying it's not even 100 days in. sorry, folks. can't figure it out. >> obamacare is a law collapsing and hurting families and not working. it was designed in a flawed way. we believe ...

Coming with this health care system. that is my big concern. we just didn't get consensus today. what we have is a member-driven process to get consensus. we came very close but we did not get the consensus. the wise thing is to pull the bill and see what we can do. i don't think the law as it is fashioned or anything close to it is really going to be able to survive. >> will you work on legislation to fill in the gaps? >> we'll see. we'll figure out what the next steps are. >> can you say it's the freedom caucus that drove out your predecessor, that drove out john boehner -- >> there's a bloc...