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Lack of accomplishments, the president is pushing republicans to dump the filibuster rule and only require a simple majority of 51 votes to pass a bill, instead of 60. >> if we don't, the republicans will never get anything passed. you are wasting your time. >> reporter: not majority leader, mitch mcconnell says, that is not a starter. >> there are not enough votes as i said to the president and all of you, to change the rules of the senate. >> reporter: trump's frayed relationship with mcconnell and attacks on gop allies like with tennessee governor bob corker led to whether the white house i...

>> surely you don't expect us to be easier on you because you're a woman? >> absolutely not. that's not how my momma raised me. >> that was nbc's kelly o'donnell reporting. last night planned parenthood president cecile richards, she appeared on nbc's the rachel maddow show and addressed this funding debate in congress and whether it's all about scoring political points. >> i do think it may be something that they find is politically effective within their caucus or within the republican primary. but it is absolutely, i think, a terrible political move in the broader public. folks love planned...

Congress is close to passing a stop gap bill to avoid an immediate government shutdown. the measure keeps government funding at current levels through december 11th. cleared a key procedural hurdle in the senate on monday and could be approved in the house as early as today. this lasts until december where there could be huge fights over funding planned parenthood, raising the debt ceiling and more. with new leadership in place by then, a shutdown becomes a real possibility. on the same note, the head of planned parenthood testifying before a house overnight committee today. cecil richards s...

Are called prudential judgment where the pope can have an opinion like on climate change and on immigration, where catholics do have the freedom to disagree, though we take when the pope says very seriously. so there's a hierarchy in regard to the importance of the issues that the pope talks about when we look at the doctrine of the church. >> this senate considering of course that continuing resolution to avoid a possible government shutdown. the democrats say they are ready to filibuster any stopgap bill. meanwhile, the white house working on its own contingency plan if the shutdown goes int...

Odds of this turning out beautifully really aren't that great. >> gop leaders are playing down talk of a government shutdown, but some conservatives seem to be determined to use the spending legislation to strip funds from planned parenthood. what are you hearing about that? >> well, this is really the big concern of the leadership in congress. the deadline is the end of the month, end of september, otherwise, the government is without funding. the plan really was to pass a stopgap bill, a temporary spending measure so other issues could be worked out. now that this has landed, there's a reall...