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Congress COVID relief negotiations: Democrats squeezed as talks continue Updated Dec 15, 2020; Facebook Share By Andrew Taylor | The Associated Press Top Washington negotiators continued to reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief on Monday, but rank-and-file Democrats appeared increasingly resigned to having to drop, for now, a scaled-back demand for fiscal relief for states and local governments whose budgets have been thrown out of balance by the pandemic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin by phone Monday evening and continues ...

Both sides starting to find common ground as COVID-19 relief bill takes shape Updated Dec 14, 2020; Posted Dec 14, 2020 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP Facebook Share WASHINGTON — Top Washington negotiators continued to reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief on Monday, but rank-and-file Democrats appeared increasingly resigned to having to drop, for now, a scaled-back demand for fiscal relief for states and local governments whose budgets have been...

Obamacare? plus, meet the new boss. former labor secretary tom perez elected the head of the democratic party. >> where were you in 2017 when we had the worst president in the history of the united states? >> but the party's growing progressive wing is not happy. i'll talk to tom perez about healing a divided party, and our brand new nbc news/wall street journal poll. the bad news for president trump, an approval rating at a historic low. the good news, his supporters are as enthusiastic as ever. joining me for insight and analysis are jerry gerry saa ebb of the wall street journal, helene c...

General janet reno to appoint a special prosecutor. >> yep. yep. nothing to hide. do it. get on with other things and get some good lawyer working on that issue while we all go ahead on other things. >> hearing moynihan's voice, everybody getting a charm out of that. ileana, the date on that and the time stamp on that is interesting to me. january, '94, almost a year into the presidency and whitewater was sort of this nagging issue and eventually you could tell democrats got tired of it and that was moynihan going the pupt as ramesh noted. >> there are similarities in that this is eating up an...

Reports of contacts between trump associates last year and russian intelligence officials were grossly overstated. isn't it reasonable for the chief of staff to then say to the fbi director are you going to say anything to correct the record on this since everyone is running around washington making these allegations? i think that's a perfectly reasonable response. the fbi have reasons why they don't call balls and strikes on the stories because we don't want to let our adversaries know what we know and what we don't know and how we know it. that's alarming. >> let's go to the issue of the whi...