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Spending bill. it's the policy for the pentagon and the defense secretary says in the middle of the war with -- helping support ukraine and the war with russia let's have clarity please. the house will vote on the senate version now of the -- to protect same-sex marriage and believe that will be done. the challenge to your point is that the president is negotiating and schumer's negotiating with mitch mcconnell to get a deal on the big issues and you can sell to the house democrats who only have a four or five-seat majority, four seats now i believe after the death of congressman mckeeshan. so...

>> right, exactly. they had to phone it in because they are not having a positive impact, if you will, on such a tight race. in a battleground state they don't want to be the figures who will tip this one way or another not in favor of their candidate. so when we we look at trump, we haven't seen him there. as well as for biden the same case and reminiscent of what we saw throughout the midterms and worked for a lot of candidates including democrats in terms of pushing their races in their favor. >> majorities, joe biden, the president of the united states, former vice president of the united ...

Referrals, whoever they may decide to put on that list, they clearly want to put a unified front forward and i think that's essentially why we're getting so few details about who was on the list, what provide tension crimes are on the list and want to present a united front when it comes to that final document. >> we will circle back when we get those details. appreciate the reporting, sara and elie. the law enforcement heroes who defended the capitol back on january 6th honored today in the very same building. capitol and d.c. metropolitan police who protected members of congress and the th...

Thank you for sharing runoff day with us. it is, yes, decision day in georgia. raphael warnock versus herschel walker in a big senate runoff. the winner comes to washington and offers the balance of power in a big way. plus, a december rush, congress must speed through a long list of must get done items. right now big divides on defense spending, vaccines and stopping a government shutdown including a new republican rift between mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy and today a watershed decision from the panel investigating the insurrection, the january 6th committee says, yes, it will make cr...

Criminal referrals and make them, to finish their final report and i think that they are still grappling with what exactly this document would look like that has to do with criminal referral, john. >> when a document like that gets to the white house we don't know what it's going to say yet but is there a legal requirement that the justice department has to look at in a certain way or another branch of government which did a very thorough and important investigation sending along its advice and justice department can take it or leave it? >> it's the latter, john. a political statement by congr...