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Month and deal with the larger budget plan later. progressives that say that is not what was promised and insists it is not what is needed. >> i'm just concerned about momentum and making sure that we deliver everything together. we're a big team. we ran on and won the house, the senate and the white house on a vision that got laid out through the jobs and families plan. these two are intertwined. >> panel is back with me. let me start with melanie. you work on the hill every day. is this a process debate or is this a policy problem? >> well, look, with moderates, if they're willing to actuall...

Seen. you remember they did dozens of hearings on benghazi and every congressional -- every request for information from the administration, the obama administration was met. hillary clinton sat in front of that committee for 11 hours taking some of the most inane questions with a smile and said i'm going to be here as long as you have questions. so i think where it's hard to see how trey gowdy helps them in this whole process debate given that he was so on the other side of this for so long. >> paul, it's hard to see how this helps trey gowdy given what he said to us last year when i asked ...

Administration, that will be the case democrats have to make, both the legal and political case, their lack of compliance represents a obstruction rather than exercising privilege within the white house. >> let's cross over to hans nichols. ultimately this starts and finishes or ends with the white house. what are we learning specifically about why ambassador sondland is not appearing before house investigators today? >> well, we have the president's own words. the president is clearly owning this on twitter, saying he thinks the process is unfair. it's an indication of what we've been hearing...

Stages -- we are at the earliest stages. just think of the last 24 hours. god knows where we'll be in one week or two weeks from now. but the truth is, the president is looking for the senate to bail him out. and i think the judgment here is if the american people believe the president did something wrong and what's interesting about this is they understand actually going to a foreign country and basically extrorting them to dig up dirt is a bad thing. then those republicans who bail him out. they will look like they cheated a political judge. they cheated an ethical judgment. and it will -- >...

This woman's allegations to come out. there will be a process debate, for sure. if republicans want to make an issue of how senator feinstein handles this, how democrats handled this, democrats are going to answer with two words, merrick garland. and the answer, when they said well, you are playing games with this nomination, you are playing politics here, you are messing with the sacred process -- i think democrats who are already upset with the way in which mitch mcconnell played the same kind of political games to keep merrick garland off the supreme court i think democrats will come back w...