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Differences and go forward. and there is a bipartisan by kam ral agreement that the speaker and democratic leaders signed just a few months ago to help them find their way back to the table. but the agreement needs to be honored. i hope they do so sometime soon. on another matter, while we wait for our democrat colleagues to let this legislation move forward the senate used the time to confirm more of president trump's impressive nominees for the federal courts. so my friends across the aisle complain we devote too much time to nominations, first i would like to remind everyone that district j...

Baby is born alive. that's a radical agenda. so i'm glad that mitch and our senate majority over there are making sure they aren't letting that kind of radical legislation move forward. >> bill: on that point, though, i'm sorry. >> if you look at some of the things that should be moving through the house that aren't, what president trump weeks ago sent down an emergency supplemental request because of this crisis at the border where you literally have thousands of people a day coming across our border. it is totally strapped. our homeland security and hhs officials right now you have over some...

Disturbing images and stouthe ss of these kids crying. he has no plans to back down. he wants to see a broader fix to the immigration as they say loopholes immigration, as they loopholes. at the same time, andrea, this official saying that the president is willing to consider some of those short-term fixes. of course, we had that emergency legislation announced by senator ted cruz overnight, and then there have been so many new potential fixes that have emerged throughout the day. of course the question is how quickly can those pieces of legislation move through congress. the sense is that wou...

>> legislation to insulate bob mueller has been introduced as you know. it has a long way to go, though. do you think that is something that is going to move forward in congress? do you think the special counsel is safe? >> i think that it's very important that it's lindsey graham. i think it's very important that other republicans are saying that it is imperative for the president not to in any way interfere with this investigation. to not fire bob mueller. and i think that if he attempts to do so that you're going to see legislation move if there's any hint at all that bob mueller's job is i...

>> adam, with your experience watching legislation move through the senate, being right there on the floor with it, what's your assessment of where this stands right now in terms of republican votes? >> well, as you mentioned, there were four republican senators who came out today and said they were not for it, which puts mcconnell, you know, a few votes away from the votes he needs. he only needs 50 with pence being the deciding vote. but i think the conservatives are playing a game. i think they're very likely to vote yes in the end after getting some token concessions. so i think mcconnell ...