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we have moved into an alternative universe, you have david vitter and ted cruz and elizabeth warren against this bill for different reasons. help us understand what's happening here. >> reporter: this is the congress that just will not go away. last night, harry reid, as leader of the senate wanted to hold a procedural vote to fund the government and then go home for christmas which they could have done by early next week but some republicans balked and said, well, fine, if you want to vote on that, we want an up-down vote on president obama's executive order on immigration. harry reid said, no, here we are on saturday set up for a slate of votes at noon here. harry reid will put together votes on nominations the president wants to see filled. the reason they're doing that now come january republicans will take control of the chamber and it will be a lot harder to get those things done. it has set up a fight that will take us through the weekend and into next week. c-span junkies are not going to have to watch reruns this

joining us tonight is senator david vitter, a member of several key committees, including armed services and in the next congress, it's just been announced that senator vitter will be also joining the judiciary committee. he is already chair of the senate border security caucus. senator, it is always good to have you with us. thanks for being here. >> great to be with you, lou. thank you for the invite. >> let's talk about what happened over the weekend in the senate. cruz and lee were slapped down pretty mightily by the senate on their efforts to hold the president accountable for that fiat. your thoughts on the fact that the president has not been actually in any significant way challenged by either the house or the senate, this senate, at least, in his executive fiats. >> well, i think it's really a shame republicans split on that vote. a lot of folks split on sort of a technicality saying it was a constitutional point of order and the spending bill wasn't unconstitutional, per se, it's the president's actions that are unconstitutional. i think that's splitting hairs too finely. i thi

meeting with a group of house republicans, david vitter pushing the executive amnesty fight into nextr. my next guest is a part of that. congressman matt salmon, it's good to have you with us. >> it's great to be here. lou: what was that secretive meeting in what was a motivated by max. >> i don't know that it was all that secret, but the motivation was to do our job and that was to protect the constitution and defend congress. and by doing this illegal unconstitutional act, our job is to try to stop it. the speaker says that he would fight him tooth and nail. the one tool that the founding fathers gave us for a time such as this is the power of the purse. and this has been arguing and so we got 62 of the colleagues to the touch it. and there are colleagues in three short weeks. we are going to raise our hand to the square and promised to defend the constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic. well, this is a violation of the constitution and i think that this is an opportunity to put up or shut up and the option is to put up. lou: what is the speaker saying to you and wha

that's what we're seeing from louisiana senator david vitter. 's so mad over the president's immigration executive action, he's vowing to block his pick for attorney general, loretta lynch. vitter says, quote, we'll have the opportunity to push back on executive amnesty with one of our first major battles. the attorney general nomination. the attorney general is one of the linchpins to obama's amnesty plan, and i'll be working to get the new congress to block this nomination. this has nothing to do with lynch's merits. it's just a childish political power play. i it's counterproductive and it's today's republican party. joining me now, dana millbank and joan walsh. thank you both for being here. this is flat-out revenge. how will it play out if he follows through with this blocking plan of his? >> i don't know. he'll get some support for sure, but look at what he didn't say in that release. he didn't say her name. he didn't say anything about her record. >> because it was all about president obama. >> right. he didn't say, we're going to talk to

. >> reporter: senators republican david vitter and elizabeth warren filed amendment hoping to strip a provision that would weaken dodd-frank banking regulations and warren says could lead to future bailouts. the houses impasse lifted when democratic senator steny hoyer split with leader nancy pelosi. >> i have concluded it is better for us to pass this cromnibus as it is euphemistically referred to, to defeat it. i urge my members to vote for the cromnibus. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner all smiles when he realized he had the votes to pass the bill 219-206. 67 republicans voted against the measure and a number of conservative members were left frustrated. >> obamacare is funded. obama's executive amnesty funded. we insisted on a vote that would allow us to cut off all funding to implement his executive amnesty. >> reporter: republicans who backed the compromise say boehner did his job keeping government open and leadership won't suffer long-term damage. >> i think it's important that house republicans stay together. if we're divided, the person who benefits most is the pres

speaking of shoutouts, senator david vitter and wendy the very beginning.ust driving the message so a shoutout for senator vitter. paul hollis. where are you, man? over here. maynese.lonel as he said, this is not about either of us it is about our country. and both of these men considered running orange and both of them up coalescing in the conservative movement because it is not about one of us. it is about the future of our country. two guys.to those >> gilbert growing the party. whoa! [applause] congressman angel who grew the party. thank my family. my mother and my mother in law. this is my son. make it today so -- we love him. thank my mother and mother-in-law who are at home watching. my daughters. my wife. grandchild. my brothers, my extended family. wow. oh, my gosh. you.f we could not -- laura and i done this without your support, without your contributions, your work, your sign webbing, you putting on -- sign webbing, putting on bumper stickers, wearing red tags. forhave made this happen the last two years. i received a call from senator landrieu

to run for -- he says he is going to run for got of 2 2015.a in [video clip] >> david vitter made his first ublic appearance after being caught up in the d.c. madam sex scandal. senate's ne of the most kevin to have members and long can campaigned for part of his s platform of strict family values, defense of marriage. a t week he admitted in statement he had made some serious mistakes. his wifehe senator and spoke for the first time since. the story from chip reid. republican louisiana senator david vitter accompanied by his publicndy made his first appearance today since admitting one week ago that he had been inked to an alleged prostitution ring. i want to again offer my deep apologies to all those i have let down and disappointed these actions from my past. and ompletely responsible i'm so very, very sorry. host: you also have some harsh to say by eliot spitzer who was in the same situation with the d.c. madam. is your reaction to -- he won re-election in 2010. reaction is this is again in 2010 i'm not justifying the action of republicans. my book is about discussing things with

lou: senator david vittert, vitter good to talk with you. let's look at our online poll results.ther both parties are taking direction from the chamber of commerce and the business roundtable or just the gop. both parties won 77% of the vote. here is tonight's poll question. do you think the republicans will try to stop defacto amnesty? cast your vote at lou dobbs.com. >>> to the week long box office, the 2 1/2 hour bible long epic, ended "the hunger games" top spot. exodus, took in 24 1/2 million dollars for fox. "the hunger games: mockingjay - part 1", was second place after three weeks at the top, bringing in 13 million for lions gate. fox's penguins of madagascar came in third, 7 million. >>> up next, no greater ally for the united states than israel. the obama administration says it. do they believe it? we examine the thought in tonight's commentary next. ♪ you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life

, if nothing else. >> i think it's good politics for david vitter i think it's good politics for president obama, as well. he said that he thought it was unwise for sony to pull the interview. we also, we also know that historically this president has not been that greatt with membes of congress. democrats themselves say that, as well. this could be a twopher. he brings them in and they watch this movie and official washington rhetorically gives the finger to north korea and the president can have some conversations with members of congress. i think it's a great idea. >> if you're worried about the security of theaters so much that you pull the film, i don't know that bringing it to the white house with members of congress is the best idea, but it is good politics for vitter. i am like deeply offended by this whole thing. freedom of speech is so core to what we all do and it's really upsetting that this is how it has all played out. i can understand the emphasis for that. joe scarborough said let's play it at the kennedy center, but not sure that is

senate floor right now to debate the merits of the legislation still no word if elizabeth warren or david vitterl block passage over stripping the derivative language from the al bob with the element of the spending bill and our fox news contributor great to have you here former white house director and stephen thank-you for being here. the president and john boehner coming together? finigan is astounding showing that politics can have a strange bedfellows. lou: this time they got it done. >> it is the real divide of the democratic and republican party that will play out in 2016. >> with this miserable session of congress is what they deserve to stay up all night long. and starting with the appropriation and hearings and the budget bill they will fail miserably. lou: what are the prospects you could see something happen tonight or tomorrow? >> we will not shut the government down they will pass the bill tonight or short-term spending bill into next week. though 1.$1 trillion will end up passing. the votes are there but it is entirely an issue arguing about the clock to see what nominations the p

harper boxer and david vitter and jim inhofe can move infrastructure in the past.that's pretty impressive you have to do border security and you have to do the visa situation h-1b and each delay and you have to deal with appropriate way with the people here in a fair and reasonable way but do it in a way that it can't be defined as amnesty. that's a delicate balance. >> i agreed with both the president and trent with regard to the potential is. i would add one that is somewhat counterintuitive with everybody at the table and that's health care. i think that there is a list of health care initiatives that could enjoy pretty broad bipartisan support. i would start with the repeal and replace of sgr. the sustainable growth rate. we have a 51-0 vote in the commerce department earlier this year and i think it's clearly something that everyone recognizes needs to be addressed. the children's health insurance program expires and as most of you know it always enjoyed broad bipartisan support. i think telehealth, there's a lot of recognition of the importance of telehealth

and senator david vitter says maybe that is because immigrants abroad have everything to gain from this. and i think that it tells republicans that they need to consider the latino vote a lost cause. >> i think that we should first of all do the right thing and i is that a huge majority of american people are fully supportive of enforcement and not just wide-open bor the president's executive amnesty which is the most extreme version of the latter. neil: he says the american people stand by that showing that that is not the case that when it comes to nativeborn, that's not the case. >> clearly not the case, americans have a problem with this onto basis is, first of all this is a horrible policy and it's going to produce more illegal activity when you reward something like that and you produce more of it. and secondly even more fundamentally this is a real constitutional problem going way beyond his constitutional authority. neil: you have met with some of these individuals who have protested about what is happening as a result of this and they don't even have to be talking about this, b

. >> reporter: senators republican david vitter and democrat elizabeth warren, an unusual pairing signed a bill that would weak -- the house is impass lifted around 9:00 p.m. last night when democratictf -- ste hoyer split with nang si pelosi. >> i have concluded that it is better for us to pass this omnibus as it is you've family mist icalically keeping governm open and his lieder ship won't suffer any long-term damage. >> i think it's important that house republicans stay 208g9. if we're divided the person who hurts most is the president. the last -- that's why we have sweeping victories in the house and the senate. >> mike emmanuelle on the hill. >> president obama certainly has his reservations got the omnibus spending bill, he has said he will sign it if he gets the chance. but he would do it without the support of many in his party. chief white house correspondent ed henry has that part of the story tonight. >> if this was the first post election test of president obama's jooirs, he stumbled. he sent dennis mcdonough to twist arms behind closed doors, the vast majority of house de

that happened, he was seceded to legislature to become the united states senator of louisiana, david vitter. at that time, he had to at least be aware of. in facts, back in 1999, when he was still a member of the state legislature, he gave an interview with many of the same conservative views as david duke. he talked about cultivating duke leaders. the novelty of david duke has worn off. duke has proven that he can't get elected. that's the first and most important thing. david duke's long time political lieutenant came out just today to say that he had invited skalise to that white supreme sis e sis workshop. hoe had no idea of the group he spoke e spoke to that day had anything to do with david duke or twiet supreme sill. for now, we can say that skalise's version of events is at least plausible. maybe he had no idea. maybe he thought it was just another random speech. maybe he barically eely gave the group a second thought and moved onto his next event as soon as it was over. it certain bli seems plausible that he knew more about the group he was speaking to than he's letting on. he deci

. >> reporter: republican senator david vitter of louisiana has sent president obama a letter requesting a white house screening of the interview. he wants members of congress invited so there can be a serious discussion on how to deal with cyber attacks. joe waldman, fox news. >>> a selfless answer. when his mom asked what he wanted for christmas, one bay area boy's inspiring work to help the homeless. >> hardly anybody is kind to me out here. >> plus ... trains carrying crude. we detail the explosive risk when you mix old tanker cars with a specific type of oil. >> and next, they come from all around to hang their wishes from the branches. >> it is going to give me permission to wish for something. >> the woman behind the wishing tree and the reason she started the tradition. >> we want to take a look at the santa tracker as santa makes his way around the world. we understand he is leaving argentina headed for santiago chile. if that is correct, those mountains would be the andes as he heads from the east to the west. i guess he will make his way up south america and go through mexico

and speaking of shoutouts, senator david vitter and wendy helped us from the very beginning.ust driving the message, so a big shoutout for senator vitter. paul hollis. where are you, man? >> right over here. >> and colonel maynese. as he said, this is not about either of us, it is about our country. and both of these men considered running and both of them ended up coalescing in the conservative movement because it is not about one of us. it is about the future of our country. so thanks to those two guys. gilbert growing the party. whoa! [applause] congressman angel who grew the party. thank my family. my mother and my mother in law. this is my son. he couldn't make it today so -- we love him. thank my mother and mother-in-law who are at home watching. my daughters. my wife. my grandchild. my brothers, my extended family. wow. oh, my gosh. all of you. we could not -- laura and i could not have done this without your support, without your prayers, your contributions, your work, your sign waving, putting on bumper stickers, wearing red tags. you have made this happen for the la

the streets from new york and other places in the country as relates to policing, you also have david vitter announcing he wants to block loretta lynch for attorney general. set aside the issues of budget and those ongoing debates there. if these candidates, whether it's jeb bush, rand paul, or hillary clinton slowly go the direction that i think people see is inevitable and avoid the top thaics now, what does that o them? >> tamron, it becomes very hard if people are running for the presidency, hard to avoid the conversations what we'll see take place is different in 2013 and 2014. the big political stage will be on the presidential side of things in iowa, in south carolina, in new hampshire where these candidates are getting questions asked about the news of the day and where they want to be able to take the country. a very big debate whether it should be for immigration reform or against it. >> all right, thank you very much, a pleasure having you on. we have more breaking news, this out of pennsylvania. we're moments away from a news conference on a man killing six members after family.

did that. >> david vitter did side with her. going to win the war, the democratic party in a major way. this is going to be a huge issue in the 2016 presidential race, people are asking, where is hillary clinton on this? every progressive group, even if elizabeth warren runs, i don't think she will, every progressive group will push the democratic field toward her. >> how can hillary clinton do one-tenth what elizabeth warren has done on this? that's what i have trouble seeing. >> that's naive and hopeful to think the democratic party will adopt elizabeth warren's ideals on wall street. i think elizabeth warren won't run, i don't think she thinks she can win. barack obama was the progressive upstart who beat the democratic machine and hillary. there's evidence warren can say, i can do this, too. the democratic party isn't near as anti-wall street as elizabeth warren would have you believe. therefore, i don't think the party's going to move to her over the next -- >> >> leadership is not anti-wall street democratic base is. >> hi

. >> to louisiana, where david vitter made his first public appearance tonight in a week. he was caught up and what has become known as the d.c. madam sex scandal. he is one of the senate's most conservative members and has long campaigned for legislation as part of his platform for strict family values. last week, he admitted in a statement that he had made some serious mistakes. tonight, the senator and his wife spoke for the first time since. >> republican louisiana senator david better, accompanied by his wife, made his first public appearance today since admitting one week ago that he had been linked to an alleged prostitution ring. >> i want to again offer my deep, sincere apologies to all those i have let down and disappointed with these actions. i am completely responsible, and i am so very, very sorry. >> you also have some harsh things to say about eliot spitzer. what is your reaction? >> my reaction is -- i am not justifying the actions of republicans. my book is about discussing things with the media that the left doesn't want to talk about, in terms of saying

elizat warren, the massachusetts democrat, david vitter, the louisiana5ug republican.oncern is the todd frank banking regulation being weakened by this deal. warren has suggested it could lead to more government bailouts of the banks, so she is fighting it but at this point it doesn't look like it will get a vote. bottom line it's pretty late in the process and it seems like everybody is thinking christmas. the question is exactly when at this point. there are a few must-do things before the senate leaves. and all indications are we could get a vote on this government funding extension late night tonight, greta. >> mike, thank you. and tonight, a first, many liberal democrats are openly outraged over president obama over his wheeling andfd,Ñ obama over his wheeling andfd,Ñ dealing t >> the motion is adopted. >> i'm glad it has passed out who and i hope it will vote the senate. >> it is time for all of us to stand up and fight. >> willingness to compromise, that's what this bill reflects. >> who do you work for? wall street or the american people? >> if you are a4#c] r

david vitter says immigration will be a big part of the con tir nation hearing for attorney general nominee lynch. chris jansing has this covereded from the white house. senior political editor mark murray joins us as well. thank you for being with me. mark, i want to start with you. frustrations by senators cruz and lee, is there a split here? >> there is totally a split. we end up seeing 22 republicans join them in voting for a constitutional point of order to sick it to the administration when it came to the president's executive action. that was half of the republican senate caucus. the other half said it was worth less and led to the confirmation of president obama's appointees like the jury ongeneral nominees you mentioned. republicans like bob corker of tennessee and lindsey graham of south carolina who said this was pointless. so a real split there jose. >> and we mentioned the confirmation. ch do you think she's in trouble? >> welt democrats feel confident about it. she has wide support on both sides of the the aisle. she has a lot of other support, including with a lot of law enfo

senator, a dress that point, that it was a vote not so much against the idea a veterans as what david vitter overblown veterans hospital. l.s.u.oted against the complex, that was when he was a legislator, i didn't say when he was in congress. now he shows up to take credit for helping concerns. the fight toead build two new clinics in lafayette and lake charles. i really want to get back to this issue of truthfulness. to have an tub in a minute for to you ask a question of one another. pie chart ofup a how we spend our money in america. is, these numbers will change slightly. this is president obama's proposed 2015 budget. estimates on federal debt that higher than that. what we you get to think of as the rest of the government, nasa, the c. d. c., it's 11% orvice, so. there were times when the deficits were going crazy, and thisly portion here didn't equal the deficit. respond that may i the republicans don't want to fix that because they want to continue to give tax cuts to people that make over a million dollars. ony want to find a space that pie chart to to cut out for pay foriends and n

you have some strange bedfellows when you have david vitter and elizabeth warren agreeing. >> absolutelyz, john mccain, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren. it's very extreme left and extreme right and moderates also saying, this bill stinks. let's start all over again and think about wall street equally the same as main street. >> governor howard dean, robert tranham, good to see you both. >> happy quintessential day. >> what? >> 12/13/14. >> oh, right! >>> we continue to follow the justice for all march in washington, d.c. we've got a live report coming your way at the top of the hour. i had these very burning, needle-like sensations. i knew i needed to see a doctor. my doctor said, "let's try lyrica." lyrica has helped relieve my pain. it's known that diabetes damages nerves lyrica is fda-approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions, or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, bl

point, that it was a vote not so much against the veterans hospital as, for example, what david david vitter felt -- landrieu: that is a part of the complex. when he was a legislator. i didn't want say when he was in congress. and now he shows up to take credit for helping veterans. i helped to lead the fight with charles boustany from the western part of our state to build two new clinics from lafayette and lake charles. but, john, i really want to get back to this issue of truthfulness. >> moderator: we're going to have an opportunity in a minute for you to ask a question of one another. let me bring up a pie chart, if we could, of how we spend our money in america. this is, these numbers will change slightly. this is president obama's proposed 2015 budget. social security 20%, defense 19, unemployment 16, medicare and medicaid are 21. i've soon estimates a bit higher than that, but the point is when you get to what we think of as the rest of the government, nasa, the cdc, the park service, it's 11 president or so -- 11% or so. there were times when the deficits were going crazy that this

sherrod brown, a democrat from ohio, and david vitter, a republican from louisiana, called for this provision to be taken out of the spending bill. and here is what they said: "if wall street banks want to gagamble, congress should force them to pay for their losses. congress should not gamble on a possible government shutdown by attempting to tuck this controversial provision into a spending bill without having been considered by the committees of jurisdiction where it can be subject to a transparent and rigorous debate." senators brown and vitter are exactly right. this provision has no place in a must-pass spending bill. conservative activists have jumped in as well. they are raising their voices today to say that this provision has no place in a must-pass spending bill. here's what one front-page contributor on the conservative backlog redstate said this morning: "i have to way to refute the basic point that democrats are making about the cromnibus fight right now. in fact, i might even go so far as to say, they are right. what possible good-faith reason can republicans have for threateni

david vitter, some others, and you see this woman in this position not forced but certainly feeling thee you hear their side of the story. >> it's interesting. we had a report earlier this morning. and the reporter that he spoke with yesterday, remember, we talked about it -- >> uh-huh. >> we had an interview with him and he said he got the sense that bill cosby really wants to talk but that the people, his attorneys, people he's paying him money doesn't want him to. but he really wants to talk. i have a feeling before long we will hear from mr. cosby. >> this may be the beginning of the process. camille comes out first. her statement i wouldn't expect anything different from a wife for a husband but it blanketly discredits 26 women's claims. when you reach a number that high it's hard to disbelieve all of them. >> the story lines are all similar and these women have no linkage to each other tochlt have a similar tale. >> she makes a point. in this world of viral media, people make claims and suddenly it's on the front of a tabloid and it is printed as fact. however, going back to the s