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Cheney and the defenders of bush are going to have their minds changed by any of this. >> the way they've been thinking is how they're going to continue thinking on all sides of this issue. >> i'm afraid so jose. >> always a pleasure my friend good to see you. >> pleasure indeed. after the break, santa needs a lawyer. it's become an annual event. santa-con. a combination of costumes and bar crawl. things can only end a little bit fascinating when you have that combination of things. this year, there may be a lump of coal waiting for all those kriss kringles. we'llics explain next. ys in a ge...

That that is good for democrats. >> women, look if there's something good for democrats in here it's that shutting down the government is bad for everyone. and again, as budget bills go they appropriated funding for 11 of the 12 agencies believe it or not, that's kind of a record for these guys. all they've been doing are these budget patches called continuing resolutions. they're doing a little bit better than they used to. but frankly, that's a low bar. the extent to which democrats had to swallow these republican measures i mentioned, i think, will be harmful for the country. >> maya there'...

Justification for it based on motions passed in 2001 really isn't going to hold u today. >> let me ask you about analysis obtained by nbc news. it suggests syria's army and isis are trying to avoid each other on the battlefield. most syria's air strikes have been targeting nonisis groups. >> i think there's something to that. in the early days of this war, when it was a protest movement, one of the things that al assad, the dictator in syria, did was open his jails and release people that he knew were terrorists. he did that so he could then say, you see, we're fighting terrorism out there on ...

Fiscal year ended. we're cramming all of these things in. nobody had a chance to become familiar enough with the challenges in campaign finance law, the changes in derivatives. they're slipping the bill so they can be taking votes on that. those should not be part of the budget. what we should be discussing is what are the national priorities. how much do we want to be funding infrastructure and education and scientific research? also, a lot of parts that aren't part of the budget discussion how do we want to think about the entitlement programs the tax code. what this is is a last minute scra...

>> i sure fear it is. it doesn't seem like we're heading toward thoughtful policy discussion which is is what we need given we have tremendous economic challenges. it's the last-minute scrambling. >> i very strongly agree with everything maya just say. i want to point out that when it comes to this dodd-frank repealing parts of the financial reform that part of the legislation was written by citigroup. it was -- they wrote the lines of legislation that they're voting on now. that is to me a complete violation of the kind of process we ought to be going through. >> hasn't that been moe titus-- ...