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As well, cornelia pillard and robert wilkins. the d.c. circuit court has jurisdiction over washington, which means it hears appeals over every regulation that congress passes, every piece of legislation a president signs. three vacant seats on the court, those three obama nominees would tip the ideological scale in the democrats' favor. it seems reasonable enough, since obama is the duly elected president. he won the election, after all. he's won two elections. but the republicans don't quite see it that way. instead of playing by the rules, they're trying to change the makeup of the court. in...

Republicans should reject it. do you want to respond? >> i don't want to shut down the government. i don't think many of my republican colleagues do. we want to give the senate, ted cruz, lee, these guys have been asking for a bill, attached to the cr, that would defund obama care. they asked for it, we gave it to them. let's see them deliver. >> if they don't, what are you going to do? what if they send you back legislation a continuing resolution that will fund the government, they send it back to the house of representatives, but it doesn't defund obama care? what do you do then in. >> i th...

Underreport his income to the government. then he was asked to justify it based on what he is seeing in his cash and credit card receipts versus the irs information and only had a month. this is a scary letter that people are getting. >> neil: so it's intimidating and at the very least, bad optics. small business guys say you're assuming the worst with us and you have done nothing to help us, so bad timing. >> yeah, bad timing. the other thing is it doesn't say the dollar amount of what they're supposedly underreporting so they have to go through records. some small businesses feel it's a fish...

The president has submitted to the republican house of lepts two very important pieces of legislation a year ago. one was the jobs initiative which calls for a significant new investment in our infrastructure so that we can be competitive around the world. and also addressed the very high unemployment in the construction sector, and he submitted a bill to reduce the deficit in a balanced way throucombination o cuts but he's also been saying asking the highest income earners, people making millions of dollars to help contribute to the deficit reduction. if you ask nothing of them you hit everyb...

National security threats, including the threat from north korea. but they offered only a few pieces of insight into that 2018 legislative agenda and the priorities that republicans hope to engage in this coming year. one of the items on the agenda that they mentioned was welfare reform. but they also made clear that bipartisanship is going to be crucial in this coming year. and that the top of that bipartisanship agenda, the first thing on that agenda at least is going to be immigration reform. republicans and congress and democrats are looking to strike a deal to keep -- to create into legis...