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But i especially feel bad for the american people whose government, the democrats, are threatening to shut down and the 9 million children whose health insurance could be thrown into jeopardy because senate democrats cannot get their story straight. now, my friend the democratic leader now wants his members to pass a bill that allows s-chip to expire. apparently now he wants every democrat in the house of representatives to break their word and pass a separate funding bill of his own that does not address the illegal immigration issue they said they must have. so let's think about this for a m...

People say sometimes you put a poison pill and you play politics. we said no, let's keep the government funded. let's address these urgent matters. s chip that's falling apart. medical device taxes hitting people in 10 days. so we made sure that everything we put in this bill are things the democrats want, agree to, and support. so i guess we could have done things differently we could have put republican priorities in here that democrats don't support and made it a partisan issue but we didn't do that. some democrats did vote for this in the house yesterday. we did have democrats come to the ...

Purposeful and accomplish a great deal. other times, it's of course it is not and it doesn't. take another one of the president's tweetins on governmt funding. house republicans hope to gain support from democrats in congress by tieing a short term funding of the government to a six-year reauthorization of chip, the children's health insurance program. the white house's official policy was in support of that move. chip, being part of this short term extension, but then the president tweeted, quote, chip should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 day or short term extension. another examp...

Afternoon. >> let me ask you and show you, first of all, how republicans like house speaker paul ryan described the democrats' stance. take a listen. >> look at mistakes are going to be shutting down chip in days. alabama, kentucky, louisiana, oregon, virginia, washington state, these are states that are running out of chip money if this does not pass. i can't imagine why someone votes against doing that. >> isn't it possible that voters punish democrats in the midterms if these programs shut down because you vote against this government funding bill? >> look, this is the crowd that shut down ...

>> incompetent white house -- executive privilege is extremely important for not just this president, but moving downstream. white house counsels and others look at it. as you pointed out, jake, there is a difference and distinction that's not lost, one is a criminal investigation, one is the house and senate, one instance it's appropriate, one instance it's not. look, it's not incompetence. it's going through -- >> down to -- you can't testify about russia's stuff -- >> they are talking about -- what's criminal and what's the house? >> why did the president choose this judge? that's private a...