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A vote when the speaker and leader and whip call a vote because they believe they have the votes to go on. john? >> the omnibus spending bill, senator lindsey graham said republicans got their clocks cleaned on this bill. looks like as many as 100 house republicans will vote against it. how do you square that with the pronouncements out of this white house that this was a big win for republicans? >> i think director mulvaney dealt with that extensively yesterday. this is a great deal for the president. he had $21 billion in military funding. that is a huge campaign pledge that he made very cle...

And ends the sequestration bill and got $1.52 billion in border security, which is the first installment in securing our nation border. $1.3 billion to coal miners which delivers on another promise he made. there's no obamacare bailout. the csr payments, which is something that the democrats want. there's a three-year extension of the opportunity choice, the children that will benefit from that. it increases funds for opioid crisis and eliminates and rescinds 150 programs or initiatives. i think when director mulvaney laid this out yesterday, when you look at what the president came forward wi...

Have -- ministers clearly hyped this whole thing. keep in mind, the white house and the administration has a lot of leeway in how the cuts are administered among the agencies and phil gramm, former senator from texas who helped right the sequestration bill in the 1985s, he's going to be our guest in ten minutes. he's going to tell us about the president, if he makes the choices where they are deliberate, maximum cut for maximum political gain, that would be the wrong thing to do for america. >> gretchen: he seems to be backing off on that now because i think if this crisis ultimately did not h...

>> there is some question whether it could pass the senate. the republicans wonder if this is a gamut without the vote to pass. >> bret: it has no chance in the house. >> it willle in the senate. this is why they didn't bring it up for a vet. there are democrats that are acceptty call of the buffet rule -- skeptical. they already interested lack of interest in buffett rule. >> bret: republicans, what are they saying? they have sequestration bill with $300 billion in targeted cuts. it would help us avoid the $85 billion sequestration but would allow to us avoid cuts in the future. most of them ...

Kindly screwing up. it was laughable. i would play a sound bite, speaking of laughable of jay carney but that's too easy an it would be a cheap shot because it's jay carney. here's more of the nominee. take a listen. >> well, you were after the sequestration bill had passed. >> not sequestration. the budget control act. >> but that's what included -- they were talking here about what would happen if you took these cuts. >> that's what i was talking about. >> gregg: he apparently has no idea what he's about to face with sequestration and cutting you know, the budget. >> it's not like he's being...