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Questioning peter strzok, questioning lisa page, but nothing about our elect shumpb security. i think what the president did w was incredibly disturbing on so many levels. it feels like we're upside down, and here you have the president of the united states, the head of the republican party saying he believes putin over the russian intelligence -- over our own intelligence agencies. but secondly, i think there is deep trouble when republicans refuse to do anything to shore up our elections. and we just had a motion on the floor, a motion to recommit, a bill to put money into election security....

Comes on the house floor. it's going to be a hard fight but this isn't "star trek" where folks say "resistance is futile." resistance will be necessary for democrats in order to protect the health care that 20 million americans now enjoy. >> when you talk about motion to recommit, you have all of our c-span fans out there, their hearts fluttering but there will be a lot of that parliamentary shell game, the other piece is that if you do win your race for dnc chair, when you're with the white house your client will be the president on down running the party. here your first client beyond the de...

Time when they're in the minority? >> listen, ari, it's good to see you. republicans are going to use a budget reconciliation process here in order to try to dismantle the affordable care act. it's the only way they can get past the filibuster rule in the senate in order to get something to president trump but even using that process, it's going to be sticky because then they can only target pieces of the affordable care act that can have to do with spending or taxes so they will have to send that legislative to the parliamentarian of the senate and then go through a long and -- elongated proc...

Senate in order to get something to president trump but even using that process, it's going to be sticky because then they can only target pieces of the affordable care act that can have to do with spending or taxes so they will have to send that legislative to the parliamentarian of the senate and then go through a long and -- elongated process there as well. so in the house of representatives really what they have to do is be the voice of resistance. they have to use all of the things in their power, including the motion to recommit, which is a tool the minority party can use for any legisla...

Everybody in their partisan corners. there are procedural rules used to block anything from getting done. >> one of the things that happens here, right, there's a difference between what the rules say and norms in an institution are. norms are like things that just aren't done. what's happened is a gap has opened between the two. there are things you can do according to the rules like, you know, put holds on every nomination that comes across secretly or filibuster every single motion to recommit. there are things you can do according to the rules that violate these norms. once the norms get v...