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An aid, investigations, quid pro quo demanded by President Trump. Ambassador taylor testified and gave the most sweeping and devastating testimony about President Trumps efforts to shake down the ukrainian government. Mr. Trump calls the charge a hoax. I had a perfect conversation with the president of ukraine. And goes after ambassador taylor. Hes a never trumper and his lawyer is a never trumper. While his lawyers are quiet on the evidence and make false claims of being shot out of hearings. Maybe they do that in the soviet union, thats not acceptable to the United States of america. Ill tal...

Every morning here since the election. Fiscal cliff, big, big issue. There are now, it seems, growing numbers of people on both the right and the left who would like to see us just go over that fiscal cliff. How big of a problem would that be . That would be a big problem. I actually still believe that those the democrats, the administration, republicans in the final analysis dont want to see that happen. They do understand that not only would that present a problem in the near term as we went over the cliff at the end of the year, but we still then have the whole debt ceiling fight that would...

Yesterday into today. There were more defections from republicans as the day progressed. They seemed to become clear to the republicans that the votes were just not there. And if they put this on the floor, they risked a considerable embarrassment. We are going to, while we wait for paul ryan and nancy pelosi after him, well check in at the white house. Nbcs Chris Jansing is there. Chris, we know the House Speaker was there earlier today, we know there is apparently a phone conversation there, trump and ryan, what exactly played out behind the scenes today . Reporter it was highly dma ralt dra...

Pelosi, we had jim clyburn th e there, stan hoyer saying this is a good day for democrats. they are pulling the bill from the floor and repealing the effort to replace obamacare. also, president trump just made some remarks in the oval office. we had a camera there for some technical reasons, it's going to take us a few minutes. we can show it? okay. i'm sorry, we have chris jansing standing by at the white house. chris, what do we know? >> reporter: just interrupt up me if we get the tape. what happens is they send the pool in, they are able to tape it, they have to physically run it back dow...

He does not want to face this twice. >> it's impossible to imagine, that's such a key piece for the white house, just not to have this fight again. it's going to have to be a joint whip operation in the house. i think there will be a period from the time there's a deal amongst the leaders in the bipartisan leadership in the white house, there will be a period from then until it gets passage in the house that will look like where are the votes going to possibly come from. but if stan hoyer and john boehner are willing to do a deal that they can both support, i think they can get to a majority i...