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Payroll tax expire? >> well, we are depending on the president to do what he has said. there is an omnibus budget bill that has to pass by the end of the year to keep the government run, and i think that the strategy for the republicans is to get that thing passed, and then jet out of here, but the president has said he will not sign the omnibus without them dealing with the payroll tax cut. you mentioned earlier, chris, they are holding so many things hostage. they believe they have perfected the hostage taking, and they are going to demand that the president sign the keystone pipeline deal w...

Remember four or five weeks ago, any riders on the continuing resolution were non-starters. and then the white house loosened up on this because boehner basically went to them and said, look, i'm going to need something, i'm going to need some of these policy riders. i can't go to this completely clean and get anything through the house or there's not going to be a deal. so they -- the white house has had some wiggle room on these issues of riders. the question is -- but on a couple of them, they are dug in and on particularly this one on abortion and planned parenthood. and so that's the one ...

Any riders on the continuing resolution were non-starters. and then the white house loosened up on this because boehner basically went to them and said, look, i'm going to need something, i'm going to need some of these policy riders. i can't go to this completely clean and get anything through the house or there's not going to be a deal. so they -- the white house has had some wiggle room on these issues of riders. the question is -- but on a couple of them, they are dug in and on particularly this one on abortion and planned parenthood. and so that's the one that they've been trying to rewor...

Strategic thought within the party right now. >> richard wolffe, i want to play some back and forth over this issue of riders. the white house actually has backed off and drawn a line in the air. biden last night these amendments, these riders, the defunding of planned parenthood or npr, the president and i are not big on riders at all. we made it clear what we think are the non-starters, but i'm not going to negotiate out here. here's michele bachmann today about this issue of riders. take a listen. >> cutting off funding to groups like planned parenthood has to be one of those issues that we...

Want to testify. they also want christine ford to testify second after kavanaugh. they also want the committee to subpoena other witnesses that ford says could corroborate her story. now, we hear that those are non-starters for the committee. but ford also has some non-starters of her own. she wants her safety assured, as you may have heard reported there have been death threats. her family isn't living at home. and she doesn't want to be in the same room as kavanaugh. so with this new information let's get to the great debate. symone sanders and amy kremer. symone, what do you make of the con...