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Confirmed to the Supreme Court so give us a call. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook. A very good morning to you. Leading up to yesterdays hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats had question of whether judge gorsuch could be sufficiently independent of the man who nominated him. Chuck grassley used his first question to address that and he asked judge gorsuch if he could rule against president donald trump. I have no difficulty ruling against or for any party, other than based on what th...

Joining us is molly hooper from the hill newspaper to talk about the latest on that push by republicans to pass the American Health care act. We are now just hours away from a rules Committee Markup on that legislation. Trump gop struggle to find health care vote. Give us a sense of where we are. Guest that is where we are. They are playing with about 22 no, meaninghat are no. They can only afford to lose 21 votes on the floor. For passage through the senate. The conservatives, many from the House Freedom caucus, seemed pretty intractable. We have had President Trump on the hill tuesday mornin...

Host paul ryan speaking about pulling the bill. Joining us now from the capitol is molly hooper from the hill. A very interesting day in the house. So how did we get here . The republicans didnt have the votes to take this bill over the goal line and part of the reason was there was a small group of republicans who were not going to be voting for it. A number of the Freedom Caucus numbers. And so basically House Speaker paul ryan took a trip down to the white house and had lunch with the president and holds an emergency meeting telling the conference, no microphones, saying guess what, heres t...

There are hundreds or thousands of folks from your states involved as well. What i want to do is talk briefly about the threat which is a very real threat. I take it seriously and i know all who are here will take it seriously as well, and that threat is why i support the basic pillars of the president s fourpoint Initiative Announced two wednesdays ago. Im going to talk about that, the president s four points briefly. But whatever want to dig into with, i hope you will see my passion coming through my wonkiness because im going to dig into this in a significant way, is a series of six reasons...

They dont provide support at all. The president s own words and actions the president understands precisely the constitutional argument i made when he ran in 2007. He said the president does not have unilateral power to wage war without congress during absent an actual or imminent attack on the United States. Of articlee limits ii. Limitationsds the of the 2001 ums who said we shouldnt be broadening that a withhat was put together no geographic limitation and no temporal limitation. We should be narrowing it. We should be refining it during we should be ultimately on the path to repeal it. Wit...