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Wanted to fire the special counsel last june. now they will try to find protections for the special counsel in the upcoming spending talks. among the ideas floated is giving the special counsel the right to challenge his firing in court. >> another idea stipulates a special counsel can only be fired after a judge finds cause or misconduct. >> it probably wouldn't hurt for us to pass one of those bills. there are some constitutional issues with those bills, but it would certainly wouldn't hurt to put that extra safeguard in place given the latest stories. >> i've got legislation protecting mr. ...

Awards. we have the latest from moscow and london where we are following the deadly attack in afghanistan. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. i have never seen a politically charged grammys. >> i'm dave briggs. we did not stay up and watch. we will get to the highlights. the white rose was the signature move. what you want to call it? symbol of the movement. a lot of politics on the grammy night. we start with democrats with new steps to protect robert mueller following news the president wanted to fire him last june. a congressional aide tells cnn democrats will seek extra protec...

Of this. when we get back, we'll talk about the first full day in congress. we'll talk spending talks, we'll look at the sticking points with two weeks to go until the deadline. happening as two democrats join the ranks. we'll have a live report from capitol hill. they appear out of nowhere.

On illegal immigration has already blocked us from making progress on long-term spending talks. that same fixation has been threatening to filibuster funding for the whole government. two republican aides saying senator mcconnell is already drawing up plans to bring forward a series of votes that ulbe leading into midterm elections, especially for the ten democrats up for re-election in the states president trump won. democrats are holding their ground. >> i think we need to force the leadership on the other side of the aisle to take this issue seriously, and they haven't for 110 days. if mi...

Nothing. >> senate minority leader chuck schumer tried to push for a vote last night but failed. he pitched a much shorter resolution to allow the senate to continue debate over the next few days. however, aides to senator majority leader mcconnell are skeptical. with just hours left, the blame game is in full force. >> democratic senators's fictionation on illegal immigration has already blocked us on making progress on long term spending talks. the same fixation has been threatening to filibuster funding for the whole government. >> two republican aides say a series of votes could be uncomfo...