congress paul who tried out samsung's picture to moji feature how did that work out . hey christophe yeah let me show you right here the excitement when you see well not so much to be honest actually one wonders if features like you are going to be enough in the market that seems to reach set aeration. no they're not going to be that and actually i'm pretty annoyed at major smartphone manufacturers like some sun they're trying to sell us you know small evolution incremental evolution as the big revolution the theme was the camera reimagine for samsung and that just didn't happen i wish they'd just be honest and say we've got a new phone same design and it's pretty good all right so what do samsung's competitor seven store. there's a couple of different take next samsung and some others are going for camera just brought out a phone that has two displays and then there's companies like nokia now owned by h m d who is going retro once again with this banana phone all right but if cameras aren't new hot thing and retro i suspect remains a nice there whereas the real innova

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right and we find out more now from our correspondent who is in barcelona at the mobile world congress paul i understand a lot so few phones there but not much new apart from give it i mean do you have anything really new forests that. you have the big innovation is unusual in the smartphone these itself they've been developed quite far what we're seeing here is a lot of innovations in terms of artificial intelligence training out new features and networks of course are an important factor with five g. with everyone. so what is what is new about networks five g. i'll get to that in a moment because it's not that new renay but is there anything that we haven't heard about yet but should. because we. don't have you ever heard about a life i don't know. what is it so that's that's a new one that was a new one for me so the idea is that you get data connectivity through like i've got a gun example here i'm watching on this the live stream i'm actually watching here and there's a little bit of a delay and this data is transmitted by light if i cover it up. it should stop right there. and yes all

let's get more from barcelona from our correspondent paul chris from brits at the mobile world congress paul i hear this new samsung phones they can turn to speak turns into him oh geez have you tried that. yeah i've tried that and their reaction to that let's me just answer that with an r. in a moment g. . now what do you think that says not convincing is it. no it's not my talk to to industry experts yesterday at the press conference where it was released and while the new camera features are certified cool they said it's not the revolution that samsung told people that was coming it's not really a camera reimagined because that's what samsung claimed right at the camera reimagine now even when even industry giants like samsung find it hard to come up with something really new how about other companies present in barcelona. yeah samsung is the big player apple is never at the show and it's stealing the light out of it from everyone else but they didn't show anything brilliant it's not in the devices and it's not with any of the other companies sony just unveiled some new phones they're als

target our correspondent princes in barcelona at the congress paul i hear this new samsung phone can turn into a mode if you try that all . don't think we have a connection there apparently our correspondent cannot hear us at the moment paul christo no there's no connection. so we will move on. to the shares of automotive holdings genie who are up more than seven percent this morning this after the company's chairman has announced that he has become the largest shareholder in germany's dime learned company a seven point nine point seven percent share in the maker of mercedes-benz luxury automobiles gili said to forge an alliance with time which is developing electric and self driving vehicles to respond to the challenges from new competitors such as google and. who already has holdings in europe acquired sweden's valvo car maker eight years ago. and that's all your business for the moment. and still nigeria christoph and more than one hundred girls are still missing a week after is almost attack on a school in northern nigeria boko haram insurgents are suspected of targeting the teen

who called billy graham one of the greatest americans of the 21st century and other leaders in congress, paul ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell also set to deliver remarks. yesterday they spoke with reporters and said that this was an easy decision to memorialize billy graham this way. he becomes only the fourth private citizen to lie in honor at the u.s. capitol. he joins rosa parks and two law enforcement officers killed during a shooting here at the capitol back in 1998. it will be interesting to see how the president communicates billy graham's impact to the nation, a man that will long be remembered not only for his faith but the way he impacted the political life of so many for so long. >> boris, with the latest there from the capitol. thank you. we want to bring in randall balmer, chairman of the religious department at da dartmouth. as we look at the scope and impact of this man, reverend billy graham. how do you put that into words, randall? >> it's pretty tough. he's a person who was enormously influential. i think he was arguably the first religious celebrity because

>> you have the echo chamber of breitbart and fox news and the republicans in congress. pauly indispensable to the president here. and what is so different is how different the republican party is. from the 1970s. remember, what drove richard nixon out of office at long last was when barry goldwater and hugh scott and all the stalwarts of the republican party said we can't defend you anymore. we don't see even a breath of that in the current republicans in congress except those who are on their way out. in arizona, in tennessee. you have senators who feel like they can't challenge the republican orthodoxy in their party anymore. and defend law enforcement. you have a completely unified and far more right wing republican party today than did you in the 1970s. >> so you mentioned speaker ryan. his feeling with there is based on public statements he's made. if there was a civil liberties abuse of carter page, that's important for us to know and that's important for the fbi to fix. if a political document was used, as evidence in a counter intelligence and law enforcement manner,

doing its job. >> one republican and one who is the leader house speaker, when you talk about congress, paul ryan, he is more than on board. he is aiding and abetting and wing man for the president in a lot of ways. you just heard what richard painter said. you hear jeff flake. president says it's not about under mining about it paul ryan says, no, it isn't. let me play this again. >> what this is not is indictment of the justice system. this is not indictment of the fbi. of the department of justice. it does not impugn the mueller investigation or the deputy attorney general. >> laughable, right. >> he should talk to the president. because the president believes that it is. and that is why, you know, this is occurring. don't forget, paul ryan is close to devon nunes and some people have said their closeness has affected paul ryan's judgment on this. but paul ryan, there is no doubt about it, he has put himself out there on this. and, you know, maybe he's grown closer to the president. >> does he believe what he's saying there? >> i have to assume he is. >> history is not going to be kind to

2013 meeting and lied about ukraine discussions and the 2013 meeting with lobbyists -- a congress member and paulafort. information that i do not think we knew. interesting to see which congress member and which theyists those are here hearing at 2:00 p.m. eastern. a guilty plea should come then come a correct -- should come then, correct? kevin: it could. the president announced new sanctions against north korea. this comes at the closing ceremonies are set for this weekend. and when the president is trying to lay out the case for the 2018 midterms. the president pointed towards michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio in the address and announced a new set of gun control laws -- gun control proposals and says lawmakers when they return from recess next week will take up a school safety package or even mental health package following the several rounds of listening sessions held at the white house. shery: thank you for that term is really from the conservative -- kevin cirilli from the conservative political action conference. vonnie: the hearing at 2:00 p.m. in washington according to the filing

paul. congress is stumbling towards a second shutdown with resistance from rand paul and house democrats could push the government over the brink. preparing for a government shutdown at midnight as a budget .eal stalled on capitol hill one of the deals that was trying to move forward was actually scott wall reporting having to do with the democratic whip in the house. moving forward with a 24 hour short-term funding deal, but nix.got the part of the problem in the senate is senator rand paul in kentucky, holding up any action on the floor. fox news reporting that another tillis said we can play this game until 1:00 a.m., i think we should vote right now. if we want to go through the theater and we want to go in at that is going to be the end result. i apologize on behalf of people that i cannot give you certainty. over in the house, waiting for the senate to take action. the senate finding itself unable to move forward throughout the day today. it looked like they were coming together on a bipartisan agreement for a two-year budget deal that would take congress thethe president past midterm el

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retreat, after the collision of the train carrying a many members of congress yesterday. paul ryan certainly setting the tone with an announcement and a press conference yesterday, and we've got more breaking news for you. chief intelligence correspondent catherine harris, just a busy hour. she is live in washington right now, and of course, the memo is going to be an extremely important discussion for members of congress at the retreat. the president's about to speak it, but you have covered the fbi for 17 years. can you break down what is going on? >> first of all, this is really uncharted territory. none of us have ever been here before about 60 yards down the football field, they passed the ball to the white house. the white house has the ball, and they intend to run that final 40 yards and a declassified fear was the memo gets to the white house, the president has the ultimate classification authority. he can say yes or no, whether the information is public. and the reason that is important is because it takes it outside of the house rules. so again, without football anal

and here's what you do to fix that, tell your buddies in congress, tell paul ryan and mitch mcconnellubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities, that what we need are laws, real laws, that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids. go on tv and tell them to do that. [ cheers and applause ] i'll tell you something. that is a perfect example of the common sense you told us you were going to bring to the white house. it's time to bring it, we need it. tell these congressmen and lobbyists who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain, force these allegedly christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the nra year after year after year to do something. now, not later. now. and don't you dare let anyone say it's too soon to be talking about it, because you said it after vegas, you said it after sandy hook, you say that after every one of these eight now fatal school shootings we had in this country this year. children are being murdered. [ cheers and applause ] do something. we

talks about state solutions and state measures or whether he really puts any kind of pressure on congress on paul ryan, on mitch mcconnell for some kind of solution. >> he just hasn't offered clarity yet. he has said some things but hasn't offered specifics that we will be watching that very closely. more than 70 lawmakers in florida have called for israel to be fired or step aside. those same lawmakers are pushing through the legislature gun control measures. since patrick brought up the issue of the broward county sheriffs. i want to play more of the interview he had with jake, not only did sheriff israel say he's been doing an amazing job but he also said this which was confusing. >> do you think that if the broward sheriff's office had done things differently this shooting might not have happened? >> listen if ifs and butts were candy and nuts, you know, o.j. simpson would still be in the record books. >> i don't know what that means. there's 17 dead people and a whole long list of things your department could have done differently. >> i don't know what it means either. kudos to jake for poin

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people can see the argument on both sides at once and republicans because they have a majority in congress and paul ryan is backing this maneuver blocked it. they said we'll get to that later. we'll see whether the house intelligence committee really does, republican really do let the memo go to the white house and see whether president trump decides to declassify it like he did with the democrats' memo with the government shutdown possibly coming up, wouldn't be surprised if, oh, just too busy. but we'll see. >> when you listen to the innuendo and the direct attacks on constitutions and people who helm those institutions, i wonder what you make of that as somebody who's worked in the federal government in that capacity, referring to tuning out the political noise. how difficult is that to do when you're a staff prosecutor, working for the justice department or the fbi, how hard is it to tune out the noise like the kind that we're hearing? >> well, i can tell you that as a former federal prosecutor who worked and conducted federal investigations without regard to politics, this is insulting, it's h

. >> tell your buddies in congress, tell paul ryan mitch mcconnell and marco rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities that what we need are laws, real laws that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids. >> and divide and conquer, russian bots flood twitter on both sides of the gun control issue. what is their mission? >> russians are very big fans of our second amendment. they would like nothing better if we were shooting each other every day, which sadly we are. they view this as one of the fault lines to exploit. >>> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as funeral services for some of the victims of the high school massacre are under way, friends and family are celebrating the lives of alyssa al hadef and med t dou meadow pollack, both killed by nikolas cruz. he was arraigned. he is being leheld without bail charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. we're a wagts detaiwaiting deta trump's trip to parkland likely tomorrow. he leaves for a previously planned trip to his mar-

congress. host: and also criticisms aimed at paul ryan. the washington post saying he is damaging the u.s. constitution. how do republicans fight back from this? guest: the flip side of that is some republicans and the ones who are advocating for the release of that memo, up to and including president trump believe he has not been treated fairly and believe this memo was what he has in fact been saying for months or longer is true. there was no collusion between the campaign and russia, and the russia probe has been unfair. the flip side is this is a party that for years, decades, has --n considered for t or portrayed itself as the party of law enforcement. two up and that and to now be the party that is directing so much ire at an agency like the although different but related that used to be the party of free trade and that has been up-ended with the policies that president trump has brought in. so how it recovers is sort of, you know, it'll really depend on how it continues to react both to this and to other issues. host: a lot of speculation on the two motorcades but the white house an

that money that wasn't appropriated by congress -- -- senatoru think rand paul was making the argument. why are republicans not ok with deficit under present obama, but they are ok with deficits as long as there is a republican in the white house. caller: the same question could be to the democrats. why was $10 trillion spent under obama with the democrats and they are ok with that, and we don't mention that. on much money has been spent foreign-born innovators in the united states by democrats and republicans? how much money was spent on iran when $499 million who okayed that? host: stephanie in highland, california. democrat. > caller: i want to say rand pal doesn't have any standing to make comments or complaints about the budget exploding. didn't he vote for the tax bill? the next thing i wanted to say was it is scary because they are ballooning the deficit. with the tax bill and the budget deal, what are we talking about? $3 trillion added on to the deficit? does any of that contain infrastructure spending? there is not too much infrastructure spending included there. there is abo

an amtrak train packed with republican members of congress including house speaker paul ryan slams into a truck in its path. >> mass casualty incident, level one. train versus truck. >> lawmakers jumping in to help the injured. we have the latest from the scene. >>> it's president trump versus his own fbi director again. the fbi makes a re public warning. grave concerns about the accuracy of that secret russia investigation memo. urging the white house not to release it. >>> the cdc director resigns amid scandal. right as the agency is fighting this flu emergency exploding in 49 states. >>> kids and migraines and the unusual way doctors are treating them. would you believe botox? >> i saw a night and day difference. >> parents say it's a life changer. >>> and meet the real-life heroes turned movie stars playing themselves in clint eastwood's new hollywood blockbuster. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. welcome to our viewers in the west. we begin with the frightening moments on the rails for republican members of congress today. it was a deadly

an amtrak train packed with republican members of congress including house speaker paul ryan slams into a truck in its path. >> mass casualty incident, level one. train versus truck. >> lawmakers jumping in to help the injured. we have the latest from the scene. >>> it's president trump versus his own fbi director again. the fbi makes a re public warning. grave concerns about the accuracy of that secret russia investigation memo. urging the white house not to release it. >>> the cdc director resigns amid scandal. right as the agency is fighting this flu emergency exploding in 49 states. >>> kids and migraines and the unusual way doctors are treating them. would you believe botox? >> i saw a night and day difference.

and paul ryan said congress should focus on whether existing laws are working, including laws designed to prevent the mentally ill from getting guns. stay with us on ktvu fox 2 for continuing coverage of the school shooting. we'll bring you new information as we get it on air and online. >>> a woman is recovering in the town of byron after being beaten by a baseball bat. a call on kellogg creek road shortly before 9:00. and they found a 38-year-old woman suffering from the a serious head injury. no word on her condition or any arrests this morning. >> the chp is praising good samaritans in the east bay who pulled a man out of a burning car on a busy freeway near crockett. the driver lost control of the car and then hit the center divide before the car rolled over and burst into flames. other drivers saw the crash and the flames and got out and pulled the driver out of the wreckage just before the chp arrived to put out the fire. the driver who has serious leg injuries was rushed to the hospital but is expected to survive. >>> california lawmakers are rolling out a series of bills to ea

house speaker paul ryan said congress will solve the problem and protect the dreamers who are at risk of deportation next month. after the vote in the senate mitch mcconnell laid the ground work to begin the immigration debate next week. diane and kendis. >> it's getting a little too familiar. >>> and the white house is struggling to explain why a top aide was allowed to stay on the job despite domestic violence allegations. sources say senior officials knew about the allegations against rob porter for months. chief of staff john kelly initially defended the staff secretary after he resigned but last night kelly sent a memo to staffers saying the white house takes domestic violence very seriously. porter's second wife tells cnn he asked her to release a statement about the allegations but she did not agree with the language. >> he was asking me to downplay it and he was asking me to emphasize more the relationship that he and i have now as opposed to what i experienced in our marriage. >> both of the ex-wives making allegations against porter say they told the fbi about his alleged ab

think how difference congress would be if paul ryan and nancy pelosi did that before every session of "special report" for tonight. i'm chris wallace in washington. "the story" with martha maccallum is up next. martha, do you guys start with a dance party? >> absolutely. every night. chris, thank you very much. good to see you tonight. we have some breaking news for you this evening on the story. there are brand new text messages obtained exclusively by fox news that reveal a questionable relationship between the top democrat in the russia investigation and a lobbyist representing a russian oligarch. good evening, everybody, i'm martha maccallum and this is the story for tonight. senator mark warner of virginia who held numerous press conferences over the past year promising a fair and bipartisan investigation into president trump's supposed ties to russia was apparently trying to gain access through the russians to christopher steele, the author of the infamous anti-trump dossier writing in part in these text messages that are just being revealed for the first time we have so much to

republican house speaker paul ryan says congress passed mental health legislation two years ago that is just now being implemented. >> we do have laws on the books designed to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms, people with criminal % backgrounds from getting firearms. the question is just like the texas instance, are those laws working the right way? are there loopholes that need to be plugged? >> reporter: at san jose state a generation that grew up with mass school shootings happening across the nation, looking for ways to stop it. >> i think a huge part of it all comes down to mental health and everything, but you see this all over the country, it's not just one specific area. in general we need to look at it from a broad picture. >> screen for people who own guns, once you buy a gun theres no follow-ups. >> i hear, i'm sorry, my condolences but i don't see any action. >> reporter: a gun control grouped called every town for gun safety reports there have been 290 school shootings in the united states since 2013. in the shooting in florida, 18 so far this y

continue to watch the futures which are higher at the poament, it's also a late night for congress, you're looking at paulyan on the floor right now, how congress is struggling to passing twui-year budget deal. do they have the votes? and being called the biggest leak inistry, the secret source that runs apple's iphone has been made public, we will be right back lauren: breaking news, we are waiting for the house vote on the budget bill. they are now voting, senior capitol hill producer fox news chad has been on the floor all night, long night just began for you, he joins us live now the latest developments, hey, chad. >> yeah, this is the final vote on this project pact and moved to the senate and that's the problem, moved to the senate after midnight and the government ran out of money. you have 99 other senator who is we wanted to vote on this earlier in the afternoon, rand paul said we need to make a point here, we need to address the deficit spending which is added on by the budget pact. they didn't move it through after midnight and that's why it's getting to the house of representatives in late hou

and then you see that paul ryan has taken a step back and abdicated his responsibilities, and congressoing their job. yeah, it's important that people are, you know -- comedians are taking the time to break that down. even when you're waiting for a punch line and one is not coming, at least it's coming from a voice you've been able to relate to on a laughing level. >> at the same time, there is -- it's fraught as well, right, kathy griffin was just on the cover of "the hollywood reporter," the title being "can a comedian in exile come back." the person who created this controversial image, he hasn't suffered any consequences, just her. do we still have a problem with not everybody being able to use that voice in a way that's edgy, if it offends too many people who are on the pro-trump side? >> i feel like, if you say you're ostracized, then find an audience that's going to respond to your message. it's like, i always say, say whatever you want and realize that everybody else get to interpret it once it passes your lips, right? and so for me, people don't even -- the media itself and th

that passage occurred after rand paul of kentucky refused to allow a vote on a bipartisan bill because he didn't get his own vote on an amendment that would keep congress under strict budget caps. paul saying he isn't voting for more debt. >> if you were against president obama's deficits and now you're for the republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy? don't you the remember when republicans howelled to high heaven that president obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into a oblivion. now republicans are doing the same thing. >> so where does that senate bill go from here? joining us now from the capital is nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. very long night for you and everyone else there. >> a long night and what will be a busy morning as this bill now goes over to the house of representatives. this was supposed to be the easy part. the senate ultimately passing this bill with more than 70 votes. but some six or seven hours after it could have been done if not for rand paul's protest on the issue of debt and deficits. that's going to continue to be a problem for this bill as it now goes over to the h

also, house speaker paul ryan set to answer questions any moment. he will be pressed on what congress will do, if anything at all, in the wake of this school massacre in parkland, florida. much more on that in just a moment. but, first, a moment in the russia investigation that might explain why the president is shouting this morning, virtually at least, look at those words, he posted a short time ago, witch-hunt. cnn's manu raju on capitol hill with the latest. hope hicks, has she arrived yet? >> reporte i think manu is having a hard time hearing me. >> reporter: any minute now, john, we're expecting hope hicks to walk into the house intelligence committee meeting room just below me. the question is whether she's going to answer questions about her time during the transition period, and in the white house. what we can tell you is that congressman mike conway, the republican's leading the russia investigation, just told our colleague that he expects her to answer all those questions during the transition and during the white house. the question is whether or not she will actually do t

the headline, rand paul holds up vote on government funding bills. congress approaches shutdown deadline. she writes that senator rand paul is holding up a vote on a bill that would keep the government funded in order to avert a government shutdown early friday morning. the kentucky republican explained in an interview with fox news that -- this afternoon why he's blocking the vote on the measure. it includes a bipartisan budget deal to lift spending caps. he's demanding that g.o.p. leaders allow a 15-minute vote on an amendment he crafted to maintain current spending ceilings. that's from cbs. you can read more at cbsnews.com. reaction from republican senator lindsey graham, among others, about senator paul's stand and senator graham tweeting -- >> so things in the senate not moving forward. they're in session but nothing happening yet on the continuing resolution. you can follow the senate over on c-span2. the house meanwhile, house democrats, are meeting at this hour in a conference room. the caucus meeting on how the vote will go eventually in the u.s. ho

. >> reporter: senator rand paul kept congress working through the house, in a protest that adds over a trillion dollars to the debt. the gop facing criticism over that price tag. >> republicans deeply care about the president when there's a democrat in the white house. when there is a republican in the white house, they couldn't care less. >> reporter: big boosts for domestic programs which the democrats demanded. the bill also includes over $90 billion to help hurricane victims long overdue money for hurnl victims in florida, texas, and puerto rico. live in washington, jennifer johnson. back to you. >>> the mop-up is over at st. catherine's catholic school. it was because of a water main break. here's a look from sky ranger, right around when the 24-inch i'm that started spewing water. in the last hour, california water services told nbc bay area that the crews are repairing what was a swamp this time yesterday. the water went inside the san mateo catholic church and the gym which was brand new. >> the floor was really nice. it was very clean and it smelled good in there. >> reporte

paul mitchell, for giving us this opportunity to speak about this wonderful historic tax package. yield back. mr. mitchell: congress talks about the impact on small businesses. many of the businesses are called family businesses and the tax cuts and jobs act provides the ability for small businesses to deduct 20% of their income at a much lower rate, at 25% to allow businesses to grow and allows businesses to write off equipment t of new rather than expense its. it means real money out. significant differences allowing businesses to invest in growth. i'm pleased to yield at this time to the representative from

and the top two democrats in congress are calling on house speaker paul ryan to remove congressman devinel committee chair, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi both sent letters to ryan yesterday. in his own letter, senator schumer told speaker paul ryan, quote, simply, under yo ur leadership, dangerous part is anship among many house republicans seems to have taken a precedent over the oath we all take to protect our magz. adam schiff also called for nunes to step aside. take a listen. with respect to the chairman and should he step aside, i thought he already had. >> i did, too. he seems to be back. >> actually, i knew that he hadn't. i mean, he said that he was going to step aside or recuse himself, but never really did. throughout this whole time, he continued to make the most consequence yantal decisions in our investigation. >> shumer achumer and nancy pele called on you to remove nunes. what is your response? >> i think they're just playing politics and looking for a political drakz istraction is w get out of that. >> the top democrat, democratic congressman adam schi if ff made a comm

paul ryan says congress's duties to find out. >> what it is is congress's legitimate function of oversightmake sure the fisa process is being used correctly and if it wasn't being used correctly that needs to come delight and people need to be held accountable. >> reporter: jim jordan offering a preview of what americans can expect to see. >> this memo is really a spin because of serious material omissions is inaccurate and gives a misleading impression. >> reporter: adam schiff of the house intelligence committee, very important because he has been calling for chairman devon nunez to be removed, one of several democrats calling for nunez to be removed. there is quite a lot of hype being built around this. the voice on what can or can't be declassified but is expected again that he will give that okay and go back to the house and up to chairman nunez to release it and then we will find out whether he will be vindicated and americans will finally see what is in that memo. it is like waiting with baited breath. thanks. jillian: the hunters have been hunted, that message from former member of

paul. essentially what congress did is give the government a free check without any limits whatsoever on spendingnext year. $300 billion for military and domestic programs is going to add to the deficit. vonnie: all told, will it goose gdp growth? is it better for the economy to have a blank check? or will this cause problems down the road? marty: it is my view that eventually it could cause great problems down the road if you have the federal government borrowing $1 trillion next year and inflation rising, and the costs were going to escalate. at some point, it is this theory that growth will take care of this, but if growth is not there, it could create real problems, crowding out other issuers of debt. f gop members are suddenly ok with lots more government spending, what happens to their voters? marty: they have made the political talk to us that this is not going to be an issue in the midterms. we will wait and see. i do think that the tea party movement of years ago was essentially dead, and they are playing to the disaster relief and increase in defense spending that will carry the day in

speech and debate clause, shielding them from criminal prosecution. >> if paul ryan was joining us at the table, he said, this is congress doing its job, reviewing whether fisa abuses occurred. what would you say to him? >> paul ryan's talking points don't mesh with what we've heard from the president and his allies, both publicly and what they have reportedly said privately. on the latter, it is reported the president believes this is a great tool -- >> for what? >> a great tool to discredit the mueller investigation. look, this is about the mueller investigation. the first stop to obstruct that investigation is firing rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein, from what we've heard of the memo, is mentioned prominently. clearly, rosenstein is in the sights of president donald trump. even if you look at president trump's tweet this morning, you see he is going at the department of justice and the fbi. if you look at devin nunes, devin nunes is a house lawmaker who has long been one of the biggest cheerleaders and champions of fisa surveillance, warrantless surveillance and surveillance with a warrant, which means to be the case he

. >> reporter: republican house speaker paul ryan says congress passed mental health legislation two years ago that is just now being implemented. >> we do have laws on the books that are designed to keep people who have mental health backgrounds as well as criminal backgrounds shouldn't have guns. >> i think a huge part of it is it all comes down to mental health and everything, but i mean you see this all over the country, it's not just one specific area, so in general, we need to look at it from a broad picture. >> i'm sorry, my condolences, but i don't see any action. >> reporter: a gun control group called every town for gun safety reports there's been 290 school students since 2013, and with the shooting florida, 18 so far this year. >>> a god fu fund me account ha been set up for the victims of the florida school shooting, funds will go directly to the victims and families, so far more than $429,000 right now has been raised toward the $500,000 goal. >>> a hearing has been postponed until next month for the couple accused of killing a 19-year-old leaving her to die on tesla ro

that passage occurred after rand paul of kentucky refused to allow a vote on a bipartisan bill because he didn't get his own vote on an amendment that would keep congress under strict budget caps. paul saying he isn't voting for more debt. >> if you were against president obama's deficits and now you're for the republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy? don't you the remember when republicans howelled to high heaven that president obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into a oblivion.

congress should consider common sense gun legislation.>> i would rather pass gun safety legislation than when the election. people die from this.>> democrats calling for expanded background checks and a special committee to examine gun violence. paul ryan said today congress to focus on whether existing laws are working including those designed to prevent mentally ill people from getting guns. securing schools without creating an intimidating environment. we go on patrol with the school police officer in oakland.>>> cannabis at school. meet the family that helped inspire new legislation to change california law governing medical marijuana use at school.>>> it is warming up. it is going to be warmer tomorrow. we will look for upper 60s. overnight lows will be cool. all the specifics after the break.>>> it is about family and food at the chinese community -- prepares to usher in the year of the dog. ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ ♪ >>> the sound of firecrackers in san francisco chinatown. the bay area chinese community prepares to welcome the year of the dog. tomorrow marks the start of the lunar new year. the most important dat

the drama began last night when republican senator rand paul used a procedural tactic to block the senate from speeding up the vote so that congress could meet the midnight debt line to approve the bill. paul wanted senators to keep him on a vote. he protested the large price tag of the deal. senate majority dealer mitch mcconnell and majority leader chuck schumer pleaded with paul objecting to the plan to allow the procedural vote to happen so they could finalize the deal. but paul did not waiver, beginning an hours long filibuster. take a listen. >> speaker of the house supports the bill, is waiting for it to pass the senate. the president of the united states supports the bill. and is waiting to sign it into law. now, i understand my friend and colleague from kentucky does not join the president in supporting the bill. and it's his right, of course, to vote against the bill. but i would argue that it's time to vote. >> i very much appreciate my good friend, the junior senator from kentucky, his fidelity to spending, something we don't agree with, his fidelity to trying to get his amendments on the floor debated, something we do

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congress member jordan has concerns over the spending bill passed last week by paul ryan. >> he could have stood for the position we passed earlier in the week. the position that our conference supported. i wish he would have done that. do i think the speaker has problems? yes, i do. particularly into the big immigration debate. >> wow. the deal passed 5:35 a.m. friday raising caps by $300 billion by two years. congress member jordan says that is not consistent with the promises to cut spending. >>> praising the tax bill as a gift to workers. 4.2 million hard working americans have received a pay increase because of the tax cut and jobs bill. cnn checked the white house over the number. some have offered splashy gifts for workers. apple and at&t and disney and bank of america and walmart. those workers are a small fraction of the 125 million who work for a company in the country. only 13% of corporate tax savings will go to workers. cutting the corporate rate is a gift to companies. businesses will spend tax savings on equipment and buying other companies and investments. that was a h

>> chris: senator rand paul, who kept congress up also don't like almost all of last night as he tried the bipartisan spending plan that will add $400 billion to the deficit thew years. we are back for the friday lightning round. congress finally passed the bipartisan spending plan. deficit hawks are furious. the markets... the markets were up. the dow jones 330 points today. they are worried about the economy overheating for this will only add to this. is this a good deal for the con delma country are not? >> . you can use >> for politicians, the idea that when people have tragedies, natural disasters, they want to help. that washington is picking up all the bills, those bills are getting bigger, it seems like it at some point we have to ask ourselves, $20 trillion and plus in depth, can republicans, can democrats do anything to solve this problem? >> chris: karen, is under control of the part of fiscal discipline? >> exactly. i wonder if you can take all those tea party guys who got elected in 2010, put them in a time machine, bring them to today, how horrified they would be to see t

congress. host: can i ask you? senator rand paul was making the argument. republicans not ok with the deficit under president obama that seem to be ok with deficits as long as there is a republican in the white house? caller: the same question could be to the democrats. why was $10 trillion spent under obama with the democrats and they are ok with that, but we don't even mention that? how much money has been spent on foreign-born invaders in the united states, but democrats and republicans? how much money was spent on iran when they only had $499 million? who okayed that money? host: got your point. we will go on to stephanie and highland point, democrat. caller: i just wanted to know. say randall, i want to paul does not have any standing to make comments or complaints about the budget exploding because didn't he vote for the tax bill? the next thing i wanted to say was it is kind of scary because they are ballooning the deficit, but with that said, with the tax bill and the budget deal, what are we talking about? $3 trillion added on to the deficit? does