to be right.. it was a tougher year. and the truth is , we were the foundations were there. right.here. t truth is , we werehe t fightinrg on on their terrain more than we were inn 12 or 10 when i was in the house majority in and we won sixty three seats. i knew that the possibilityas of winning at 20 or 30 seats a was there, but it was going to be a challenge. it was going to be tough. but all that being said, a win y is a win.ou, i wa i have to tell you, i wase there the last time that we fired nancy pelosi and i and ev tpelosi be more proud of kevin mccarthy and steve scalise. every single one of the rank th and file members that worked .their hearts out. i traveled to thirtymp five states. i campaigned with aignedith a ll house members across america., s incoi want to tell you this incoming class of freshmen it s is going to make everybody proud. it is an extraordinary group ofn men and women, strong conservative principles. ancy p and the daely that nancy pelosid hands that
mcconnell had unanimously accepted the same deal, and what nancy p pe lelosi had them pass night is what the senate had passed word-for-word, and it is the burden on mitch mcconnell to say why he is standing firm, and the obvious answer is that he had the rug pulled out from underneath him by the president of his own party and he does not want to bring anything no the floor that he doesn t know for shurna the president is going to accept. and now a crack in the republican ranks, right? so far, susan collins and gardner from colorado saying, make a deal and end this shutdown. so the republicans made two tactical missteps into the leadup of the shutdown. first, the president saying that he would own the shutdown, and the second is the white house giving the senate assurances if they passed that clean c.r. to keep the government funded until february, the government would pass it. and mitch mcconnell does not put
briefed on what the u.s. knows about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi, but not by the cia director who actually heard the tape of his murder. coming up, the insooider s viewf the former cia chief john brennan. and unopposed, nancy p pelosi no competition as she seeks to take the speaker s chair, but will she be able to control the e e vvolving caucus? i think that the caucus is coming together very well, and we all agreed on everything all of the time, then there would not be much growth. hi, and good morning, everybody. and goodday, rather. andrea mitchell here with a shocking fallout of a new york times report that paul manafort s lawyer has been secretly briefing president trump s team on the talks of the federal investigators and a possible reason that mr. mueller