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Nearly 3 billion lawsuit in which he plays a starring role. Others at fox news do as well. And then a Battle Of The Ages and for the ages, of course, tom brady versus Patrick Mahomes in the super bowl tomorrow, coming up later this hour, were going to talk about that as well. I want to start, though, with nbcs mike memoli traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, and nbcs ali vitali on capitol hill. Thanks for joining us on this. Mike, i want to start with you on this one and the president s worry, shall we say, about the former President Trump. This is the first time that you had ...

Fiscal year. jim angle is keeping an eye on all of this, live from washington. where are we in the process now, jim? reporter jon, the house will pass a 2-week extension spending authority today called a continuing resolution or c.r., that will happen this after that and they'll send it to the senate. this particular bill would only cut $4 billion. that's two weeks' worth of the 61 billion house republicans want to cut between now and october. some democrats are critical even of that amount, even though all of the cuts in there are things president obama has proposed. now, cutting -- putting t...

Basis -- the bases are angry with each other. independents are turning out in the hundreds of thousands if not millions to object. you just had this congressman from oklahoma on fox & friends yesterday saying he's a democrat, thinks 17 percent of the folks in his district want this bill, or whatever the bill is going to look like. there is nobody that's going to convince this guy that somehow passing or voting in favor of this bill will be better for him. jon: kirsten, you've heard the pitch from one of the president's pollsters, sam green bg, who's telling democrats that failure to enact heal...

They saying? >> reporter: that's the a really good question because we reported that acorn's chapters are reorganizing and changing their names in several places under different groups apparently to shed the acorn moniker. today in a statement from bertha lewis, the head of acorn, she said it was an unconstitutional attack and in part said, quote, all of us suffer when a politically-motivated frenzy feeds a rush to judgment. after nearly two years of continual attack by the extreme right aided by many who should have known better, she says, acorn has now been exonerated in many forums, but it'...

Being preparing with sodium and also to either minimize or maximize the consumer choice. the consumer will make their decision, and i think that this bill will allow the chef and the consumer to have a conversation about what they can add or not add. we all have to understand that we have a very serious problem with the health care costs in our country, and this bill will save at least $32 billion as a result of having a choice by the consumer. jon: well, i guess you wouldn't introduce it if you didn't think it would pass, but do you think this thing has a prayer of passing? >> well, you know,...