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>> alisyn, we need more than $600 billion in infrastructure. this has been infrastructure week in washington for a decade. it's broadly popular across the entire american public and trying to say you're going to fix a four plus trillion dollar infrastructure debt, and that's just roads and bridges and hard infrastructure, with $600 or $800 billion, that's not near enough. what you're seeing play out, as your guest already articulated, is the fact that republicans cannot, they cannot give joe biden a big win on this. that validates his central reason for running. if they give him a win on this,...

Should have part circl two, andy unless they do what newt gingrich did. what do you think? >> joe cunningham says he will vote for the inquiry, here's what i i would tell congressman cunningham. you aretell voting for an inquiy that allows the intelligence committee to do witness interviews behind closed doors and the president's counsel is not allowed to attend for the basic premise of due process is to confront your witnesses -- accusers against you -- and call witnesses on your behalf. neither can be done under this resolution. this is a crumb of due process, not even half a loaf, and if we...

Them. but a lot of republicans cannot. >> it's a great point as well for those republican senators up in 2020 that have to win in more states. next up, the kremlin has a related wish list to all of this. it wants his calls with the white house kept secret.

Cathartic moment in progress, but remember, we waited for them with a republican congress and a republican senate. we outmaneuvered them, we o outlawed guns in places across the country. >> you're obviously partisan, but is that the answer, that simply republicans cannot hold power if you want change on guns? >> no, there is just no question about it. that goes with other big issues, too, including climate change. the republicans are stuck in their ways. their stuck in 1980 and the early '90s and they're not going to move forward. the republicans, especially the americans out there, you have t...

Here, peter. what's behind the standoff? what's driving it, which will apparently carry into the new year. you have the democrats here, nancy pelosi and mulvaney saying this is all about democrats protecting them. what's driving it for the democrats? >> for the democrats, it's originally accepting trump's declaration that he would take full credit for shutting down the government. as he often does, he lied. now it's a principle stand for the democrats. but that's quickly going to give way to the political reality, particularly when nancy pelosi becomes speaker in just a few days. >> when it co...