i will never do that to chuck on your leadership team. so i want to first of all, talk about what i hope to bring to there and that is that i am someone that believes you need to stand your ground but also find common ground and look for solutionss and american people are crying out that chuck has emphasized that's part of our goal and bring the plane people what -- the american people whay they need and what they want. my colleagues mentioned these nominees. for fbi agents in new jersey and that these people who are up and nominated to lead the agency, wouldn't have the same kind of background review given to us which is our constitutional duty to advice and consent and our job to protect and up hold and support and defend the constitution that's the oath that we take and to exercise that oath we must have that information when we look at these nominees. in addition, some of these other policieser with across the board tariffs or additional tax cuts for the wealthy are things that are not in the best interest and we don't have the backs

i would like to repeat what chuck schumer said about the process. mark my words you cannot do speed dating process for a cabinet for the president of united states without ending up embarrassed and with things discovered only through a deep investigation by the federal bureau of investigation. june with the ordinary processes been in the past with previous presidents? they would float the names to the fbi, of possible people for the cabinet for a cursory investigation to see if there's anything they missed in the initial look. >> the judiciary committee with the fbi room and make sure people serving the country in the highest position of real background and provide services to the country that is not too much to ask i can tell you privy many republican senators spoke to me and to fbi check in the moment say it publicly the reasons. in the process served well under previous administrations and they have to be honored. >> no not my first time and thank you so much and thank you to this incredible team and a chalk and corey and i we are both running fo

i also want to thank chuck schumer because getting through committee only gets you have to weigh. need to get the floor trying to get the votes, and nothing is more precious to a majority leader than floor time, so, chuck, dedicating the floor time to this project has really been significant. the last thing that i want to say is that this is a very significant achievement, and it is very good news because it means that in court after court after court coming and seeking justice, will get a fair and honest judge to hear that her case, but that does not mean that we can relax our vigilance. because if you have a billionaire-picked maga district judge in a republican billionaire-controlled circuit feeding to a captured supreme court that all needed junk shopping to run that maga pipeline, even the judicial conference has pushed back against the judge shopping into these maga pipelines, so we need to keep a careful eye e on the maga pipeline because that is where the special interests will go to get the decisions they know these judges will give them, and with that, let me turn it ove

der chuck schumer on the senate taking up a government funding bill. [indiscernible] senator schumer: ok. good evening, everybody. thank you for coming. so proud and glad to be joined by many of my judiciary committee colleagues, led by chair durbin. i know a lot is happening in the capital today and tonight, but we want to mark a historic moment here in the senate. today, we confirm the 235th judge more than any majority has confirmed in decades. this is historic and will have huge and positive implications for the american people for generations to come. now with the nation's newest 235th judge, we confirmed more judges under president biden than any administration in this century, more judges than any administration going back decades. one out of every 4 active judges on the bench has been appointed by this majority. one out of every world for. we have some of the most qualified and historic nominees ever confirmed in a 4-year span. one out of every four judges on the bench. i want to thank all the senators who work hard for these nominees. it was n

chuck and i talked about that.erience. so you need great content and a great consumer experience, and that's what chuck stood for. he was a great futurist. he wasn't always right, but he was mostly right. where is the future of this business going? together, chuck and john and rupert, they were the three horsemen. >> so what does it all mean, zas, for you, for your company, for brian roberts and what happens for what we're calling spinco, what's it all mean? who's a buyer? who's a seller, who's a consolidator. what's the value? what do we end up with? >> i think what it really means things haven't changed that much. we are a pure storytelling company. whether it's hbo, or warner brothers pictures, or sports, or the channels we have around the world. you have to tell great stories so that when people have a choice of watching anything, they'll watch you. i've always believed that the best content wins. sometimes you can have other companies that have bigger platforms and better algorithms, but in the end, our bet at

that's what hakeem jefferies and chuck schumer agreed to. and that bipartisan compromise is exactly what elon musk submarined because he did not want his own conflicts of interest to be affected, his own interests in the government with his own government contracts, and i got to tell you lawrence, it's scary that you have the world's wealthiest man who supported donald trump with nearly $300 million, is rumored to be ready to give donald trump a financial windfall by using his x company to purchase truth social, having so much influence, this is an unelected oligarch who appears to be running our government. >> so just to clarify, this is kind of a breaking news item, for me, anyway, i don't think it's been out there, that it's your understanding that the republicans put the congressional pay raise into this bill. >> yes, my understanding is that the republicans are the ones who want to pay themselves more. now, there's a good argument to be made for this, which is that there should be -- there could be a raise for members of congress becaus

two, the united states senate is controlled by democrats and democratic majority leader chuck schumer. anyone who understands that knows why the budget extension bill y negotiated by the republican speaker of the republican house includes compromises with democrats and chuck schumer. elon musk objected to those compromises in the bill, saying that any republican who votes for it should be voted out of office, that's how he began his day. and only hours after that, after elon musk led the way, only then did donald trump catch up with his apparent boss, elon musk, and join in objecting to the bill. republican speaker mike johnson was with donald trump and elon musk while he was negotiating the bill, he was with them constantly while he was negotiating that bill. mike johnson has stayed as close to them as possible to try to make sure that what m happened today would not happen, but you cannot stop chaos in the republican party. and would not have happened if donald trump were a rational person, but he is not, and so donald trump decided at the very last minute, after weeks of negotiatio

eugene daniels and chuck. the cohost of the latino vote podcast and president of solidarity strategies. sam, we'll start with you. we are already seeing fights with individual cities over deportation policy. you saw thomas homan take a dig at san diego. just this week, he has been sparring with illinois governor jb pritzger and the mayor of chicago as well. how much and local and city and state governments hinder the mass deportation plans? >> it depends. they are necessary to implement the most severe elements of what the trump administration wants to do. there is just not enough federal forces or federal law officials who could handle all of this. to the degree if the trump administration wants to execute plans to stated objectives they will need localities to participate. if localities choose not to participate, they can't do it. that said, if you listen to that segment that led into this, we should expect protracted legal fights. earlier, they had hinted he would just force mayors who didn't comply to comp

his staff made deals with chuck schumer, tried to jam us before christmas, a christmas present for chucknd he did it get. speaker johnson doesn't talk to his republicans most of the time. it's almost disrespectful where members the last second have a 1500 page bill and they expect them all to vote. maria: meanwhile, fox sources revealing that trump's team was actually in secret talks with senate majority leader chuck schumer for weeks in order to get the debt limit included in the bill. speaker johnson negotiated a separate spending deal with schumer regardless, we're told. lawmakers racing for plan c ahead of the shutdown deadline of midnight tonight. joining me now is new york congresswoman claudia tenney. congresswoman, good to see you. what can you tell us this morning. >> great to see you. look, i think speaker johnson has developed hide like an elephant to deal with all these people that are sabotages everything. i have 180-degree opinion than victoria sparks does. i respect all my colleagues. i don't like to disparage anyone. this is almost an impossible job. we do not control the

schumer even though trump was talking to chuck schumer about this putting the debt ceiling issue onplan c ahead of the shutdown deadline at midnight tonight indiana congresswoman victoria sparkz the commissioner of the u.s. commission on security and cooperation in europe, a member of the house judiciary and republican study committee's. it's good to see you. i want to talk to about a number of things including the fact that you said you will not caucus with the house republicans anymore. the ever problems of the republican leadership, you voted no on the spending bill, tell us why. >> is another example of the failure of leadership was speaker johnson, the circus has continued the act is not over but will wait should the american people know it will be over but unfortunately speaker johnson drove president trump into the circus he completely mishandled it he did not work with republicans, his staff chuck schumer tried to jam it in before christmas a bunch of christmas presents for chuck schumer and they continue to do it again. this is unfortunate the way that they are but this is

chuck, let's start with you. president biden, 26 days left in office. what else could you see him doing with those precious last few days? >> well, what a lot of us are thinking about right now is we're with our family, with our friends, spending time with loved ones, our other loved ones that are here, and what i'm specifically thinking about are folks with tps, temporary protective status, or daca, the deferred action. what he could do in his last 27 days is take those programs and he could extend them because many of them are expiring, like my business partner in march, she would have to self-deport even though she's been here for 22 years and has been here since she was a kid at three years old. so there's a lot of folks looking for him to do something on tps and daca as he moves into the last days of his presidency. >> lee, president elect trump railed against biden's pardons of those, or i should say, commutations. of those 37 inmates on federal death row, uh, i was curious. your perspective on what president-elect trump might do about that? i mea

i want to thank chuck for his comments this morning and for being a dear friend. today is bittersweet for me stand here on the floor of the united states senate making my last speech, my last major speech. so many of my staff from michigan have traveled to be here as well as staff members who have worked for me in d.c. over the years. i am truly overwhelmed that over 100 michigan and d.c. staff are here in the gallery and on the floor. and family and friend who are not able to fly in today are watching on c-span. as we come back for thanksgiving, i am filled with so much gratitude and respect as i think back over my years of public service. and i'm thinking about the incredible number of people who have supported me and contributed in so many ways to my success, from my family, my staff, my colleagues, and of course the people of michigan who put their trust in me for over 50 years. i started when i was 5. from eagle county commissioner to state legislator to u.s. senator, michigan, you will always be in my heart. today is about recognizing all of you. as some of

chuck loves the united states senate and he loves our country with every bone in his body. and i am so appreciative of his leadership and tireless work and friendship. when i announced my retirement nearly two years ago i thought i was ready to pass the torch to a new generation of leader and i couldn't be prouder to pass the torch to michigan's new senator elect elissa slotkin. i know she will have the heart and the talent for this job and will do great things for our state and our country. i thought long and hard how to express my gratitude to the smartest, hardworking staff that i could have ever imagined. truly, my success comes from their amazing efforts. over 500 bright, talented professional staff had worked for me over the past 50 years. that's unbelievable. many of them for decades and that doesn't include countless volunteers and interns. i want you to know -- interns are everywhere, the staff everywhere. i want you to know how moved i am that so many of you took time to be here today or tuning in on c-span. you are much more than employees, you are family. i've w

what is chuck schumer write about the most? how confident is he that his judiciary or the judiciary that will be in place once biden leaves office will be able to be a bone work to trump's second term? >> yes. the thing he is worried most about when it comes to what donald trump is going to do, he listed basically everything. he listed everything he could possibly think of that democrats want to defend and protect. he is worried about any rollbacks to the legislation that they passed of the last four years are really in the last two years. and he really does believe that to do the judiciary, that kind of help and talk about a fourth of the judges on the bench will be joe biden judges, which is quite a few people. that will become the tip of the spear of the resistance for donald trump for the democrats. right? and it took years of changing the minds of democratic senators and democrats in general to understand that the judiciary is actually a really important part of the process here. right? republicans understood that since ge

i want to thank chuck for his comments this morning and for being a dear friend. today is bittersweet for me stand here on the floor of the united states senate making my last speech, my last major speech. so many of my staff from michigan have traveled to be here as well as staff members who have worked for me in d.c. over the years. i am truly overwhelmed that over 100 michigan and d.c. staff are here in the gallery and on the floor. and family and friend who are not able to fly in today are watching on c-span. as we come back for thanksgiving, i am filled with so much gratitude and respect as i think back over my years of public service. and i'm thinking about the incredible number of people who have supported me and contributed in so many ways to my success, from my family, my staff, my colleagues, and of course the people of michigan who put their trust in me for over 50 years. i started when i was 5. from eagle county commissioner to state legislator to u.s. senator, michigan, you will always be in my heart. today is about recognizing all of you. as some of

he's a lot like chuck rocha in that instance.ry special to him because he was really interested in notre dame and kudos to the french president, who knows he's got to put up with, get along with or feud with donald trump for the next four years. so it's probably smart politics all around. and for donald trump, it gives him a chance to prove a lot of democrats wrong. who said he'd be an embarrassment on the international stage he'd try to start third world war. not saying he won't do that, but he gets a chance to start. folks saying that he won't do it by showing up and being an adult in the room. >> yeah. and scott, we had john bolton on a couple last hour and he just made the point to look, typically the thinking is there's one president at a time but in this case, just the visuals of it, you know i'm looking at video right now of president elect trump standing there with president macron, meeting with zelenskyy. >> yeah. and what and what video do we have from the last few days of joe biden? he was in africa a little bit, but k

um but ultimately, trump did not pick rick romney and chuck. a lot of people saw it actually, as trump world trolling mitt romney, you know, dangling the possibility and then, you know, pulling the football away like lucy so what's the possibility that that's happening this time with ron desantis there's no doubt that donald trump don't like desantis. >> people can say all they want. what you've been seeing on the internet are regular republicans who like him. there's a he got a lot of votes in the primary. he's a very popular governor of florida. but let's be clear, donald trump don't normally come back to folks like that and give them jobs. i think the senator from tennessee probably has a better shot. if hegseth don't make it. and just to be clear, for everybody watching i don't think there has to be all these fbi checks to see if somebody is qualified. i think a pretty simple google search would tell you that pete hegseth, in my opinion, is not qualified. and now one thing that everybody needs to keep in mind is that these senators are elec

i called chuck schumer who i knew, hillary clinton who i knew.huck was the first one to respond to my call. i said i need liability legislation. can you help me? he said larry, you are entitled to it, i have known you for years, you are a good guy, i will get this for you. i said i appreciate it. next thing i know hillary clinton calls back, i told her the conversation i just had with chuck. she said larry, if he tells you he is to get it for you, he will get it. but if you need my help in any way, call, because i am therefore you. the two of them were terrific. so the first move was to find a group of political advisors who can represent our interests and pave the way for meetings with meters of the house, the senate, and the white house. host: lobbyists. larry: lobbyists. and so everybody we went to already had contacts that were representing people, therefore it was a conflict of interest for them. we finly found oneroup, quinn and gillespie. jack quinn, who was former counsel for bill clinton when he was president, and ed gillespie. host: for

i mean, it had chuck schumer i have been fighting chuck schumer on this censorship enterprise.obal engagement center that's funded in here. we thought we had killed it. chuck schumer got it back in here. this is essentially. >> laura: that's why he is smiling tonight. funded to censor conservatives. we should not be doing any of this stuff. we need real reform president trump is going it usher it in. this thing is a disaster. my hope is for the house start from square one and actually have fiscal responsibility. >> laura: a clean bill could be about 30 pages, maybe it. could be pretty easy. >> you don't need democrats for it. >> you don't need democrats. >> we don't need democrats. congress isn't used to doing this but we should be. again, we have been advocating for there so-to-be single subject spending bills. i was one of the 20 to help reset the house rules because of the reasoning. the fact is you have a lot of people. some members are getting threatened with committee assignment ifs they don't vote a kind of way that can't be tolerated especially now. >> can i make one po

thank you so much for joining brad todd and chuck rocha. they are back with me, brad, i mean morale aside for a second, let's talk about the nomination process. there are some republicans who have ultimately praised this nomination of kash patel there are others who are a bit more equivocal about the entire thing. do you think that hunter biden's pardon might grease the wheel here in any way? >> well, yeah three camps, i think of republicans. there are some republicans who enthusiastically like kash patel and know him. there are some other republicans who think a president ought to be able to have the ability to staff his administration. should some of those republicans voted for a lot of joe biden's nominees by the way, lindsey graham being one of them, who sits on the judiciary committee. so then there's another group that i think the jury's still out on. i think susan collins and lisa murkowski. everyone expects that they could be a no on kash patel. i'm watching chuck grassley and john cornyn. they both sit on the judiciary committee. i

chuck schumer walked away from the table. so is chuck schumer that did this, not president trump. and unfortunately we have we have individuals now that's not listening to president trump by saying we've got to get rid of the debt limit now because they're going to use it against him for him to actually hit the agenda that the american people gave us november 5th. >> well, i don't want to say keystone cops, because that kind of like the keystone cops. i don't like what i'm seeing now. okay? i don't either. trump is trump is the most popular republican in the world, okay? in washington, in the world. and he should have real influence in how this goes. and you're right. i'm very sad about it. as much as i agree with the principle of what everyone is trying to do here. senator, thank you very much. all right. the white house's cover up, biden cover up is worse than anyone imagined. the details will shock you. yeah, they even shocked me. it's coming up. beep, beep. >> they're back. >> what do you think we were doing out here? >> goofing off. murray, chase. jeff and i returned for an a

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chuck todd is disgusted now, when he doesn't have a show any more.ryone knew this four years ago because it was in the laptop he was saying was russian. lying about pardoning hunter was the last straw for chuck todd, he didn't say diedly when biden made the american people broke. he had enough when biden made a liar out of him. so where does the democratic party go now? clinton has been me tooed, barrack is in hiding. what is next? there is a struggling for the soul of the democratic party. frances buckley says how they can pull the plug from the higher class and reconnect with americans. the party would have to abandon the message that their opponents are bigots are stupid. and they would to wean themselves from the serotonin rush from thinking they are the anointed ones. they would have to give up on the idea that they alone defend democracy. let's bring in a former democratic adviser and cohost of the morning meaning that we enjoyed greatly during this election season. how are democrats feeling after this pardon that was just decided. >> they are

chuck grassley said the president said he wouldn't do this, and i believed im.n the cover-up scheme. he calls is disgraceful. recently speaker mike johnson says, quote, trust in our justice system has been damaged by the bidens by their use and abuse of it. among democratic lawmakers more of a mix. some disagreeing and criticizing the president for this move including greg stanton of arizona, quote, i respect president biden but he got this one wrong. greg landsman of ohio says as a father i get it but as someone who wants to believe in public service there's a step back. jasmine crockett praised the move said the hunter prosecution was political, gamesmanship the entire time and there's eric holder, former attorney general of over six years under president obama, take a look at the tweet. this pardon was warranted. holder argues no u.s. attorney would have charged this case given the underlying facts had his name been joe smith the resolution fundamentally and more fairly a deck combination to prosecute. jose. >> thank you very much. ashley, holder reacted to s

this is chuck rash and town more precise new. we are at the graveyard named after the lady diana with this of its deanna was a lady that saved a lot of life from the desk comes during the 2nd world war in this area. still, we have behind us here the burial place of our 2000 serve in season that was murdered by do a star service him during the 2nd world war the just the base of the old enough it draws to the seas. good. that's at the missing the old will come what's on it, there's only lasted us affordably. the little border is uh, spanish. they did say you'll be totally up of what the cost is either when a cause that the east of up we're not going to see it that in order to post something less all us today. what do i be lost? it watch sale for yo yo sees could be a video vicki. broy did say he told me some little would. would that go sees cool. you have a look abroad. you had say, he stepped out though, but i did was at the study, it's of you those stuff. nicol money with thing with that need be low and cut on that. if for duck,

attorney and msnbc legal analyst, chuck rosenberg. chuck, what do you make of this? was this a president simply respond to be a selective prosecution of his son? a justified pardon in the face of political back stabbing? >> interestingly, he says he's doing it both as a president and as a father. and maybe we should look at it through both of those prisms. as a father, of course, he loves and is deeply concerned about his son. i get that. and he's also obviously concerned about other investigations of his son when mr. trump comes into office. if you read the terms of the pardon, it's not just for the federal criminal case in delaware and not just for the federal criminal case in central district of california. it's also for any conduct going back to january of 2014. very broad pardon. yeah. but as a president, i look at it a little different lit and think of it differently. mr. biden and the pardon itself raises the prospect of his son being selectively prosecuted. that's something that hunter biden's attorneys raised and litigated and lost. it's true that there aren

chuck and marc are still with us. how could a sitting congresswoman miss months of votes without anybody noticing? that means her constituents had no one representing them. >> yeah, i don't know if it says more about you or the job you hold that if you're missing for six months, nobody notices. it's a bigger issue which is today in congress, and this is different from the past, more than 40% of the members are 60 years old or older and a lot of them are in their 70s and even their 80s. america, in this country, you can't be a park ranger or commercial pilot if you are 65 but you can be president or a member of congress. >> more than age, chuck, is it it an issue of honesty? congress is not transparent of the health concerns of its members. mitch mcconnell, dianne feinstein, think of people in the information they had about biden's health. what does it say about our government that people don't know how they are doing, and when you tack on their age, it is more complicated? >> i think, to your point, it's because they

>> good question, fox sources revealings trump's team was in secret talks with chuck schumer for weeksin order to get debt limit included speaker youngs negotiated separate deal with many schumer still, joining me bill hagerty member senate banking affairs foreign relationss proposes rules committee senator, great to see you where are we on all of this? >> we're waiting to see tremendous amount of motion in the house waiting here in senate certainly, chuck schumer controls senate better are the republicans in house a great deal of noise i understood j.d. vance,neath with freedom caucus as we speak, i hope those conversations are going well at a moment waiting to see. maria: well, i mean trump posted on truth social last night, the united states will cut hundreds of billions of dollars in spending next year through reconciliation. house freedom caucus chairman harris and florida senator rick scott send a letter to mike johnson incoming senate majority leader john thune intensifying two-step reconciliations process with more than 20 lawmakers would focus on border policy first, right aft

it's desirable not in economic terms but political terms and could conceivably giver senator chuck schumer added power through the certification of the presidential election on januarp to the inauguration on january 20. schumer democrats are diabolical and entity don't know what happens if you leave them in charge even for a couple more weeks. it would allegedly cut $2.5 trillion in federal spending over the course of reconciliation bills yet to be determined next year. this exercise of extending funding and unpredictable, and i believe it's a leagued indicator of the potential problems the gop may encounter next year if they continue to casually believe that they can pass numerous reconciliation bills in 2025. resent polling and that polling shows nearly half of all voters think we're in a recession. more than four fifths worry about inflation and 35% of voters say it's most important for tram top secure the boarder and right behind 26% say continuing growth by making trump tax cuts permanent. trump tax cut 2.0 wildly popular. ending taxes on times for service workers and 64% favor ending

let's have the debate now, and we should patreained spending bill that does not giv chuck schumer and the democrats everything they would like. republicans would like to support farmers and set our y up for success at 2025. th way to do that is with the temporary funding bill without democrat giveaways. combined with an increase in the debt ceiling, anything else is a betrayal of our country. susan, tennessee, democrat. caller: a lot of people said what i wanted to say, actually. i don't know if anybody remembers trump shut the government down for the longest in history last time, and i swear, i heard them say they wanted to give themselves a raise. is that real? host: yes. as part of the deal that has died, that was a cost-of-living increase for lawmakers. th

with chuck hagel. and the staff was in the second helicopter. and i have the headphones on in the second helicopter and we hear, we've lost sight of helicopter number one. then a couple of minutes later, as we're going back and forth across this mountain ridge, helicopter one is down. what does that mean? we land on this ridge, the second helicopter, thankfully the first helicopter's there. the ridge is no wider than the blades of the helicopter. we're out there for four or five hours waiting for them to come rescue us by road because the snow is so intense, the helicopters couldn't fly over the next mountain ridge and get to bagram. we discovered that the warmest place to be, because it was freezing, was outside of the helicopter, standing behind the air exhaust and we took turns doing that. it was the most extraordinary adventure. but that's because john wanted to see tora bora. [laughter] in 2016, countries met to try to reach international agreement to phase out greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide. wh

as alumni of chuck schumer, chuck schumer, as he will be the minority leader still in a leadership rolesaid he's looking to become the resistance 2.0, using judicial appointments to stand in the way of the trump agenda. how do you see this unfolding? >> this is an example of a politician -- chuck schumer -- who knows how to wield power and has the caucus united behind h him. the judicial system, republicans have appointed a lot of justices. i don't know how successful that's going to be, but in this game, the leaders really need to have their caucuses behind them as they do battle. i think that's happening in the senate for republicans and democrats -- the house for democrats, but not the house for republicans. that's a divided house right now. you have a weak speaker, weaker than any i've ever seen at this point. it's not mike johnson's fault. brad hand. >> we have a fight coming. >> i think what we've got is the reality that conservatives put republicans in office in the house, senate, and white house, and this is a huge opportunity to lead and get to the business of the american peop

i'm happy to yield the podium now to leader chuck schumer. >> thank you speaker. happy holiday to one and all. i may have told the story at lastyear but i like it. we all put on our yarmulke so this is my yarmulke story pre-1990 was a congressman i was redistricted into queens. i was in a jewish neighborhood of queens getting to meet the voters a lady came over to me and said you were congressman schumer i sit yes i dread the queens tribune you are my congressman and i said yes i am part she said i would like to pay you a compliment. i've never met you in person but i watched c-span religiously. you are the only one and you have more courage than any four to 35 members of congress. some are no good but a lot are very good people what makes you say, of all the 435 have the most courage? she said well, you are the only one when you rise to your feet to speak with the courage to where a yarmulke. it's not a yarmulke. that's my yarmulke story. i could go on and on until jewish stories until the end of hanukkah two weeks from now for butit's great to be here. i want to

that is what chuck schumer has said publicly and people said he wants to do.sident trump is right but the question is how do we get there? the first bill negotiated was a nonstarter and once the people saw everything ends 1,550 pages. we moved the needle forward to a better billing you asked why did i oppose the bill last night? 38 opposed it because it came with two year extension of debt ceiling which would be $5 trillion lift and the credit card without structural spinning reforms. so our position is, mr. president we want to deliver for you on a debt ceiling increase to get it out of the way and chuck schumer can't abuse it, but we need spending restraints. what we have been doing for 48 hours is meeting with the vice president and meeting with a lot of folks incoming administration. i think we have the outlines of something that would work, that we are discussing as we speak. i think we can get something on that can make everybody happy and we are working hard to do it. >> john: talk about the outlines and a second that this debt ceiling and voting agains

chuck. todd's disgusted now when he doesn't have a show anymore. everyone knew this four years ago because it was in the laptop. he was saying, was russian lying about pardoning hunter was the last straw for chuck todd. chuck todd didn't say diddly when biden made the american people broke. he only had had enough when biden made a liar out of him. so where does the democratic party go now? clinton's been me, too. barracks and hiding biden's jimmy carter. so what's next? well, there's a struggle for the soul of the democratic party, and no one knows what to do. writer francis buckley is asking how democrats can pull the plug from the corrupt ruling class and reconnect with real americans. he says this the party would have to abandon the conceit that their opponents are either bigots or stupid, and they'd have to do so without adopting the socialist agenda of a senator sanders. they'd have to wean themselves from the serotonin rush that comes from thinking that they're the anointed ones rejected by the voters. they'd have to give up on the idea that

you interviewed chuck schumer about how he is preparing for a second trump administration. they see the judiciary as the strongest check against him. joe biden has confirmed or appointed more judges than anybody in recent memory. so certainly leaving his imprint and his legacy on the judiciary as well. what is chuck schumer worried about the most, how confident is he that his judiciary or the judiciary that will be in place once biden leaves office will be able to be a bull work to trump's second term? >> the thing he is worried the most about with what donald trump is going to do, he listed basically everything. he listed everything that you could possibly think of that democrats would want to defend and protect. he is worried about any rollbacks to the legislation that they pass over the last four years. really in the first two years. and he really does believe that the judiciary, they kind of help to mold and create. he talked about a fourth of the judges on the bench will be joe biden judges which is quite a few people. that will be the tip of the spear of the resistanc

chuck schumer has control of the gavel there. arthel: correct. but, i mean, isn't -- we have to to go now, but isn't that name of the game, compromise? republicans have to work with well democrats, democrats have to to work with republicans to get legislation done on behalf of the people. >> well, and and that's what we hope to. we hope hope to to put forward ideas that the can get across the party spectrums. hopefully, the partisanship goes away when we're doing the right thing for the american people which is lowering the debt limit and the levels of taxation, bringing our costs and interest rates down. those are things we're working towards doing. hose are the proposals that are going to come forward in the new year and, hopefully, we have a lot more mag ninety in the years ahead across washington and people will be working together more. arthel: lowering the debt limit or the amount of spending, i should say, without cutting too many programs that many americans depend on. >> we need to, we need if to put common sense forward. there's a lot o

so it's chuck schumer that did this. not president trump.nfortunately we have -- we have individuals now that is not listening to president trump by saying we got to get rid of the debt limit now because they are going to use it against him for him to actually hit the agenda that american people gave us november 5th. >> well, i don't want to say keystone cops because that kind of like the keystone cops. i don't like what i'm seeing now. >> i don't either. >> laura: trump is the most popular republican in the world. okay? in washington and world. and he should have real influence in how this goes. and. >> you are right. >> i'm very sad about it. as much as i agree with the principle of what everyone is trying to do here. senator, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> laura: the white house's cover-up. biden cover-up is worse than anyone imagined. the details will shock you, yeah. they even shocked me. it's coming up. ♪ red history, shared values, and a shared vision for what we can achieve together. stable and secure, when the world around us

w it was impossible for donald trump and elon musk to make a deal without negotiating with chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate, and president biden. there is no deal in washington now. without president biden's signature. something elon musk apparently doesn't know. but still, donald trump said, quote, speaker mike johnson and the house have come to a very good deal for the american people. that's what he said earlier today. republican speaker of the house mike johnson obviously rolesed that both elon musk and donald trump are legislatively insane. decided to let the insane and impossible musk-trump bill come to a vote in the house tonight. >> this is washington. this is how the -- lawmaking is done. it's a long process. sometimes it takes a while to reach consensus. but we're going to do the right thing here tonight. >> no, no, no. that o,was not how lawmaking wa done. mike johnson knew when he was saying that that the legislatively insane musk-trump bill was going to fail spectacularly. when the house voted a few minutes later. after a relentless 24 hours of pressure fro

i also want to thank chuck schumer because getting them through committee only gets you hathaway. you needto get floor time to get the votes . delay the implementation of the social security fairness act until changes are made that would offset the bill's negative effects on social security's actuarial balance as determined by the social security board of trustees. let the finance committee fix this bill. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senior senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president, the public should know that the senator is raising concerns about the financial impact of this bill while he and other leaders in his party are vowing to use every budget gimmick under the sun next year to avoid paying for their tax bill. and second, we've long had a tale of two tax codes in america where firefighters and teachers pay with every check while the wealthy can avoid taxes. but now we'd have a tale of to deficits where deficits don't exist when it benefits the wealthy but any changes benefiting firefighters have to be paid for. i'd urge my colleagues to vote