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>> this was also a bit of a symbolic stand by house conservatives. their own immigration bill doesn't have a lot of support in the house, but by forcing the vote on it, they're both playing up their power ahead of the race for a new speaker and putting pressure on their moderate colleagues to go on the record against it ahead of this year's midterm elections. >> garrett, thank you so much, we appreciate it. coming up sunday, tomorrow, with chris wall laswallace, an exclu interknew with treasury secreta secretary. and there's an interview about coverage of the white house. and still to come, th...
Was that whole trip a rouse to get a good view of the solar eclipse? randi kaye has more. >> reporter: it was billed to a trip to kentucky and on board the government plane, treasury secreta secretary steve mnuchin and his wife. they were joining senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> i will be only the third secretary of the treasury that's ever actually gone inside ft. knox. >> reporter: as exciting as that sounds, government plane included, may have been a rouse so the mnuchins could view the eclipse, all compliments of u.s. taxpayers. this was the first eclipse in a contiguous path sin...
Up dramatically. sol what they're going to try to do i think is a continuation of the past, which is to try to exert more international pressure, to try to change the calculus in pyongyang. i do think we need to be prepared for the fact that's going to have a limited effect as well. >> clearly they're trying to do that namely on china. you have the president this morning just a lilt bit ago in a statement saying look, china is not doing enough to help. we tried that, didn't work. and secretary of state tillerson coming out and using very strong language treasury secreta language directed at ch...