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People. wants to continue building unity by working on more issues involving both parties especially cutting taxes for hard-working americans. last week in north dakota he invited democratic senator heidi heitkamp up on stage to weekend her during his tax reform event in her home state. tonight he'll host senator heitkamp along with colleagues from both parties. senators donnelly, hatch, manchin, and toomey to discuss achieving more tax reform. ahead of the dinner this evening, secretary mnuchin and direct director cohn are back on. the vice president also attended the weekly policy lunch and ...

Wasting? >> i think the democrats are wasting their political capital with their own base, and especially with independence it will need to turn out in 2018 or 2020. with all of the stalling tactics overprocessed, they are not going to stop any of these nominees peer they are not going to stop neil gorsuch. they may get the filibuster removed, but really in the end, they are not going to be remembered, i don't think an given credit in the next election cycles for a few days of stalling. there is plenty to criticize president trump about. there is plenty to do in terms of trying to put their pa...

Donald trump who's made campaign promises for big military spending, big infrastructure spending. this is the deficit hawk who now works for at least in business the self-described king of debt. >> yeah. it's interesting you should say that. he's a -- deficit hawk is a nice euphemism and being polite. he voted for a government shutdown. this is somebody who has been one of the biggest members of the freedom caucus, kind of making war on the whole notion of government functioning as we've known it over the last generation. so, you know, i suspect what may be going on here is that there are some...

I won't do that because i think that's fiscally irresponsible. i'm the only real fiscal conservative because i'm willing to look at spending across the board. >> it seems like this -- i can only imagine being a candidate and trying to keep control of even the intellectual reality of this campaign. because what it seems to me is a battle of who can be the furthest removed from government functioning, the furthest removed from the details and the requirements of the government. if you are a preacher, a neurosurgeon or you a tycoon in manhattan. you can find yourself a lot of distance from anythi...

Industry that our city is famous for, we need the action the president has taken. >> critics say illegals should be arrested and deported and this comes as the governor's of 17 states have sued the obama administration over the executive order, saying it is illegal and that it encourages illegal behavior and only encourages even more illegal immigration. neil? >> thank you, eric. time running out for the house to take up that massive $1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. the chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on the latest. >> the overall funding level is set. t...