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City. joining he m now, who might have some insight on wa garrett was just talking about, new york democratic congressman joe crowley and new jersey republican congressman leonard lance. gentlemen, you were listening to garrett right across from me over here lay out the priorities for 2018, the potential challenges for 2018. is there going to be a government shutdown? first to you, congressman. >> no. absolutely not. i don't favor it. i didn't favor it when barack obama was president. i don't favor it now that donald trump is president. i voted for funding until january 19th, and i hope and ex...

Fool. is romney going to be apt to work with this president, or is he going to be an anti-trump republican along the lines of john mccain? >> well, first of all, i would say that i think there's a lot of misunderstanding about that meeting between mitt and the president-elect at the time trump. the reality is that mitt went into those meetings with his eyes very wide open. he was trying to be a statesman. he was trying to acknowledge the -- and i think did successfully acknowledge and respect the office of the presidency of the united states. but he knew at the time why thae did it anyway, whi...

Held by attorney general jeff sessions. smith succeeds al franken, whose resignation took effect yesterday. today's ceremony brought together three vice presidents. vice president pence's office released this picture of a meeting with predecessors joe biden and walter mondale. biden escorted his long-time friend doug jones into the chamber while mondale escorted his home state's new senator, tina smith. jones and smith took office on what is shaping up to be a busy day on capitol hill. about a half an hour from now congressional leaders will meet with white house officials in the house speaker...