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Itself, given some of the authors, are not particularly credible. >> now, sir, not particularly credible. having a go at you. what's your response? >> i encourage him to read the report in question before making sweeping 's about the credibility of the administration's critics. but again, i'm not surprised that he said that these were -- these grants were made on a merit-based -- they were merit-based grants. and again, i'm not trying to look into the hearts and minds of officials in question. i -- >> are you saying that this is the way sausage is made? you want to get some major piece of legi...

The most before the vote on the healthcare bill. cap and trade was difficult for democrats because the president acknowledged it would cause energy price to say skyrocket. healthcare law is controversial today with a majority in polls continuing to oppose it. on the websites, lawmakers didn't advertise their votes but touted money they got for various local projects. >> as a way to counteract the negative sentiment these were attempts to make sure constituents knew they were bringing money home. >> the white house said nothing was amiss. >> the president's opposition to earmarks is well-known ...

It's not class warfare in the sense that, you know, the occupy movements or anyone else is claiming everyone should have exactly the same income or drive exactly the same car or any of those kinds of scary notions that we hear the gop trying to push back on. it's rather that the current inequality is so extreme and class mobility is -- is such a dream at this point, the idea that someone could work hard from poverty and move into the middle class or from the middle class and into wealth. that has disintegrated so fully that we know that this inequality is in the merit-based. this is about fund...

Already going to be this uphill battle even before president trump sent out the tweet yesterday telling them to stop wasting their time and to wait until november. let me play you what congresswoman claudia tennie said yesterday. >> i'm very conservative, but at the same time, i look at this, do we really want to have only a merit-based -- and i mean merit based on only bringing in engineers, lawyers, doctors, people with advanced degrees, or do we want to bring all kinds of people in, people who want to be part of the american dream. >> congresswoman tenney has been a strong supporter of the ...

>> juan: maybe he is appeasing president trump and setting up for his visit next week because he feels like maybe a -- >> dana: you don't think jeff sessions believes that? >> juan: i think he is pushing the suit because it's the news of the day. the second thing if maybe he doesn't want people to focus on why his wife got into the country on a so-called einstein exception. einstein, really? she is in einstein? >> greg: you don't think she is smart? >> juan: how did her parents get in? chain migration. i thought he hated chain migration but not when it's him. >> jesse: i think melania qualifie...