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Votes in the house, potentially the vote in the senate and with the president himself. they don't see any sort of political loss by turning their backs on the people of d.c. >> well, even ones closest friends, certainly police kal representatives, they don't do what each constituent would have them do 100% of the time on every issue. is this enough to unmoor you from the president's camp, to lose your support? >> well, one you're assuming that i supported the president. so, be careful there. you know, d.c. statehood is a nonpartisan, civil rights and voting rights issue. in the recent past, we...

Supported d.c. and not support the attempts by congress to repeal this new criminal code and then this week saying that they were going to allow this veto of the criminal code to go through and when the press secretary was asked about it she really just said, the president can support d.c. home rule and statehood and doesn't support this and didn't really address the contradictions there at all or have an answer when people said how do you square that? >> it's tougher when d.c. statehood is in the democrat party platform. >> there's a process. the administration didn't communicate the position...