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Seemed to be very solicitous of vladimir putin, their existential threat. i mean, that's -- that's understandable. isn't it? i mean, alice, the idea that somehow john kennedy has decided that that equates what russia did in terms of the vast election interference. it just makes no sense. >> it's -- it is absurd, allison. and i don't know why he has gone back to this side of the fence again. the reality is we do know that russia interfered in our election. we do not know to the degree they influenced the outcome of the election. but what we need to focus on is what we can do now and in the futu...

Congress doesn't want to have complete fialty to the president. and the rival situation we have in our branches of government is how we have stop gaps is we keep control. and this congress under mitch mcconnell and under paul ryan have decided that we don't care. we're going to give up any of our responsen'ts. we're not going to do any oversight. we're going to pass sanction against russia and donald trump is going to say i don't feel like it. we're going to allow this president to make proclamations and policies and we're not going to stop him. what frustrates me about this is jeff flake says...

They would like, they're more likely to back out of future stages of the deal. that's what they talk about with preparations. they have to make sure there's stop gaps in place -- >> because capitolism will produce civil liberties. >> that's what terrifies them the most. >> and we know there's the delegation from the united states in the dmz zone. they have -- or dmz. they put things in place now that are tangible for us to watch. >> we have to also take it to the right now. we've been talking so big picture about this for so long. now we're coming down to minutes an hours here. we don't know t...

Stabilize the large financial institutions and make them profitable again, that's going to benefit the broader economy. it didn't work out. i think it's important that we not confuse what's in the big financial institution's interests and what's in the nation's interests. i think there was some confusion there. we did what we had to do, and in 2008 we were in a crisis situation. in 2009 even after the system had stabilized we still continued pretty generous bailout policies, and nobody was ever restructured, closed, forced to sell bad assets, fired. we just didn't impose any builtability on so...

these items. the payroll tax cut before the holidays. party leaders in the senate now say they're trying to come up with terms -- come to terms with something and that may be more likely now that democrats have given up trying to pass a new tax on millionaires. but wait, there is more. in less than 36 hours, much of the federal government will run out of money. the latest as seven budgetary stop gaps runs ot out at midnight tomorrow night. while lawmakers scramble to come up with a plan, nobody's voted on anything. we'll certainly keep you posted. in baghdad today, the end became...