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Bush -- the iraq war still in place, sanctioning, trying to put in place sanctions to keep other foreign actors usually from abusing our relationship with them. nuclear proliferation, again easy for me to say -- clinton did this in the middle of his first term saying, biological chemical and nuclear weapons are a huge danger to our country and to the world. we need to direct resources to deal with any americans who are working on proliferation. we need to cut that back. so, you know, there's all that and then there's the politics. this is important. our new colleague mike warren, he wrote this...

We'll have a lot more later in the program. joining us now with reaction to our top story, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is with us. kevin, let's start with the speaker of the house, let's start with the u.s. constitution article ii section 3, and your thoughts and interpretations. >> well, you're right, article ii section three says the president has to come and present to congress. since 1913, woodrow wilson, there's been 83 times -- not presidents, a number of times they came there to present to congress. the speaker of the house invited president trump on january 3rd when he was swo...

>> sean: explain what the privilege resolution does. that gives you the opportunity to get an up and down vote. >> it gives everybody an opportunity to vote for this. those democrat freshmen who do not like the action of what this speaker is taking -- i've heard from senior members of the democrats, the chair of agriculture committee, he said give trump the money. the arms services chair says walls work. even the number two steny hoyer believes in having a barrier or a wall. what speaker pelosi is doing is almost acting like a dictator. a privilege resolution lieus a vote on the -- allows a vo...

President trump's radar, maybe the president would use that as a pretext to get rid of rod rosenste rosenstein. that will be the cynical version of what they are trying to do. they say of course that look, our concerns about rod rosenstein are very legitimate, it is true maybe that we are in the small minority in congress who feel this way, but we have legitimate concerns. >> and there is also the potential here for them to put paul ryan and others in leadership in a potentially tough position. there have been some conversations based on reading your story that they may try to put this as a pr...

Bring it up in a privilege resolution. a privilege resolution says anybody at any time can bring up this issue and disapprove. i think there is a middle ground we can work there. also there is a provision which basically says if any russia energy interest has 1% of minority partnership in an energy company, our energy companies would be prohibited from being involved in that project, which would counteract russian energy in the market. i think there's ways to get this done and i'm extremely, extremely driven to get this russian bill done and do it soon and very soon, and we'll get to the botto...