so boehner had called read expletives in this exchange as well and john boehner said their relationship got a lot better after that. this is somehow how you needs to deal with harry reid. he could punch and take punches. host: before you go, do we know anything yet about funeral services or remembrances in washington? i know it just happened late yesterday. guest: we have not seen announcements yet from the family, they sent a statement from his wife but further announcements for services would be for coming so we will be looking out for those over the next holiday and early into the new year. host: senior writer for congress and the white house, we appr >> former senate majority leader harry reid has died. he served five terms in the u.s. senate, coming the longest-serving center in the state's history. he played a key role in getting president obama's affordable care act signed into law. he was a member of the house of representatives from 1983-1987. he was 82 years old. >> c-span offers a variety of podcasts that have something for every listener. weekdays, washington today gives you

he became a very distasteful thing, mostly led by republicans and john boehner and tea party republicans when they took over the majority in 2011. but also democrats like barack obama really did not like the practice and thought it was corrupt. that is why it ended 10 years ago. what people realized over the ensuing decade was it really sort of devalued what a member of congress was doing here. you reach a point where your average rank and file member of the house of representatives really struggles to explain what they were doing in washington. they had nothing to deliver for their constituents. it also created this environment in which the members who used to only think the government funding bills, the basic duty of congress, to fund the government and keep it open and give the federal agencies the budgets they needed. that became a secondary or worse task for people. they didn't really care about it as much. they didn't have any skin in that game, and that is -- you have a bipartisan special committee in the house from from 19 -- from 2019 to 2020 that concluded the reason we experie

and john boehner, republican former speaker, when he was speaker blocked legislation that was crucialthey wanted it pass. it was going to pass the u.s. house on a bipartisan basis. he refused to allow it to be brought on to the floor. when he left the speakership, he joined a lobbying firm in washington that happens to be the lobbying firm for the chinese government. they have a contract for the embassy of china, and their job is to provide in their terms, a political intelligence for issues related to the u.s. defense budget and other issues. so john boehner is now strategic adviser to that firm, that firm has office in china that office is populated by senior chinese communist party officials and government officials, he is neck deep in this firm. another example of how china works. and it is important to point out, by the way, china is not expecting these political figures to walk with them on every single issue. they have a concept in their intelligence service that loosely translated means, big help, with little bad mouth. in other words as long as you them -- help them on lit bi

of the district to know how it reflects one change of the party, and john boehner and comparing covidmportant moment. >> and auschwitz victims said that to be compared to covid limitations and vaccine is a sad symptom of emotion al and moral and intellectual decay. so this has just gone off of the rails. >> yes, there is an apology, and he said this, and i would cite the anti-defamation league commenting on certain things saying that this is not appropriate. these are public guidelines, and we can have a debate of the public health guidelines, but referring to the tactics of nazi germany, and to compare to the holocaust is deeply harmful, and it is the message that many were trying to get through to him. >> it is, just is, and decency for the respect of the fellow man, and so, you get attention and you raise money. >> they want attention any way they can get it, but to compare something to the nazi, and you want to tweet it, smack your hand, and put the phone down, and push the computer awayk and don't do it. that is the rule. >> that should be the golden rule. count to ten before you

sold during the holiday period well, what do donald rumsfeld senator tom cotton donna brazil and john boehner all have in common. we'll give you one answer and that's that. they've all worked with the javelin literary agency here in washington dc the president of that organization joins us now on about books keith urban, mr. urban. when did you start javelin and is it fair to call it a literary agency at this point? it is peter. we're one of the litter agencies here in dc. we started at my partner matt latimer and i did 10 years ago just over that we celebrated at our 10th anniversary. last fall and we've been we love what we do and it's fun to to work with authors. some of them you named i think we've worked with about 150 authors at this point in 10 years and i like to think we have the funnest job in washington dc with just all the conversations. we have all the intelligence we're hearing. it's just it's a it's a fun job to be at the intersection of publishing and media and politics. it's it's a joy. well, mr. urban, what does a literary agent do? well, we are well an unsharable way of put

i would struggle to name a more partisan member on the democrat side than adam schiff, neither john boehnerul never thought about not allowing him to be ranking member, the notion she the not let republicans, that is the select committee,ure -- the house administration committee does not get a ton of attention, it is not a provocative flame flowing committee, but you have important. >> why the capitol police board did not allow the capitol police chief to make final security decisions. it has been proven through the senate investigation through their committees of jurisdiction. the clearly show that there were instructions given by the sergeant at arms at the time to remove bike racks, that one example. it is absurd to think that top law enforcement tomorrow on house side, their communication is not germain to finding out what the problems were. trey: i know if you were chairman you would be just as fair in the majority, the difference and you will have seep subpoena power and right now you do not. >> thank you. trey: still ahead, being a police officer is a hard thank less job. even on the

john boehner, republican former speaker of the house, when he was speaker of the house, blocked legislationhey wanted passed. it passed through senate on bipartisan senate it would pass u.s. house on bipartisan base, he refused the speaker to allow it to be even brought on the floor, when he left the speaker ship he joined a lobbying firm in washington that happens to be lobbies firm for the chinese government, they have a contract with embassy of china, their job to provide in their terms, a political intelligence for issues related to u.s. defense budget and other issues. boehner is now a strategic adviser to this firm, they have offices in china. he is neck deep in this firm, and another example of how china works, important to point out. china is not expecting the political figures to walk with them on any issue. they have a concept in their intelligence service this loosely translated, means, big help, with little bad mouth. as long as you help them on big thing that matter of to them, if you say something about the uighurs and free speech, they are find with that. you find that on cap

fringe element that took kevin mccarthy down when he tried to ascend to the speaker's role after john boehnereraging or squeezing him again, just in 2023, just like they did in 2015. >> just to be clear, mccarthy's reasoning for ousting these democrats, he said, has to do with sort of this false equivalency he's trying to make. i mean, he says it's because when democrats kicked off republicans marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from their committees that they created a, quote, new standard, but i do think it's important to point out that gosar and marjorie taylor greene were removed for either social media posts depicting or in support of killing fellow members of congress, and that is not what mccarthy is alleging with these democrats, so it just doesn't add up. >> yeah, that's right, ana. let me tell you what. look, i worked with speakers boehner, pelosi, and ryan, and i saw how they dealt with members who became distractions or embarrassments. i mean, we used to do these things internally. i was involved with conversations to get members of congress to resign in order to protect the ins

if you look at where john boehner and paul ryan and kevin mccarthy tried to say we're trying to get thee coalition possible and go as far right as we can but i don't want to lose the moderates. if i go too far right i'll lose the seats. if you go too far left you will lose manchin. you have to be smart how to play politics. republicans have done that. democrats have gone to the left wing stratosphere and you can't win there. >> harris: great debate between the two of you. jason and sean always nice to have you in "focus." thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". a lot of emotion this hour. thanks for being here. "outnumbered" after the break. to new patients without insurance - everyday. plus, patients get 20% off their treatment plan. we're on your corner and in your corner every step of the way. because your anything is our everything. aspen dental. anything to make you smile. book today at aspendental.com, walk in, or call 1-800-aspendental. your kindness outshines your highs and lows. your strength can outlast any bad day. because you are greater than your bipolar i, and you can

freedom caucus back in 2015 that prevented kevin mccarthy from ascending to the speaker role after john boehnereann announced his resignation. i think kevin mccarthy is doing everything to make sure that hard right flank doesn't undermine him again. also donald trump is out there who doesn't want him to cooperate and can also cause problems for him to become the next speaker. there can't be daylight between kevin mccarthy and jim jordan and kevin mccarthy and donald trump on this issue. simple as that. >> in this letter to mccarthy the committee brings up conversations mccarthy may have had with trump about impeachment, resigning or even removal onto the 25th amendment. that's as serious as it gets really. it suggests that mccarthy believed trump was culpable for what happened but does it also speak to his state of mind, his mental fitness. >> exactly. the number one issue that kevin mccarthy can speak to is to president trump's state of mind. kevin mccarthy had really revealing conversations with donald trump, and that's what the committee needs to get at here, and i think the number one headl

john boehner was going to come. did john show up? well, good. the speech is getting too long anyway. [laughter] you know, i can't thank everyone who is here today, but please know how much you have meant to me. i wish i could talk to each of you. but i can't. i talked this morning about my family. i love my voice and my girl and my 19 grandchildren. as i indicated this morning, we learn from them when we were children raising them. we called them the big kids in the little kids and then we waited 6, 7 years, and we've learned with them, just like we did with the big kids. so i told everyone this morning, that my desire in life has been and always will be to make sure that i let you know how much i care about you, how much affection i have for you. how proud i am of you. and what a wonderful parent you are to my grandchildren. leandra and i have had a love affair for more than 60 years. she was a sophomore in high school, i was a junior. and we have been inseparable. we've done it together. i mean, i would have dropped out of law school so quickl

reid was anger with then republican house speaker john boehner for refusing to compromise in the run-upe infamous fiscal cliff of 2012. and reid accused boehner of running a dictatorship and putting his own political interests above those of the american people. as reid himself later admitted, quote, i stepped out of bounds. boehner thought, so he said, go "f" yourself. oak, i can accept that. it wasn't the first time. i appreciate his being honest with me. a politician who can appreciate the honesty of being told to go "f" himself is a rare man indeed. harry reid is a man who will be much missed by his former colleagues and by millions of americans mer colleagues and by millions of american don't settle for products that give you a sort-of white smile. try crest whitening emulsions... ...for 100% whiter teeth. its highly active peroxide droplets... ...swipe on in seconds. better. faster. 100% whiter teeth. shop crestwhitesmile.com. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost

interview and you know, he confessed that you know, he enjoyed giving the former house speaker, john boehner, a hard time when they had to tangle with one another in washington, but that they enjoyed working to get things done behybind the scenes and there's just to little of that these days in washington. so true what you said there. thanks to all of you for being with us for this special coverage of harry reid's funeral there in las vegas and we'll have more in just a moment. we'll be right back. kim is now demonstrating her congestion. save it slimeball. i've upgraded to mucinex. we still have 12 hours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours. there's so much new in the new chicken & bacon ranch, but the clock is ticking, so we gotta hurry! there's new rotisserie-style chicken, new peppercorn ranch, new hickory-smoked bacon, new- did you just spike the footlong? sorry, i didn't want the delay of game. save big. order through the app. this is your home. this is your family room slash gym. the guest bedroom slash music studio

one year after that despite being the heir apparent mccarthy was passed over to replace speaker john boehnerervative freedom caucus members vowed to not support him. >> we are going to move forward. >> reporter: the lesson mccarthy seems to have learned, make sure the most extreme members of your caucus are happy. even if that means embracing lies and extremism. mccarthy was all in on trump's election lies for example. >> president trump won this election so everyone who is listening do not be quiet. >> reporter: mccarthy signed on to the lawsuit from texas that tried to throw out votes from states biden won. >> kevin mccarthy told me directly he wasn't going to sign it. i said, good. this is not a brief we ought to be associated with. and then a few hours later he signed it. >> reporter: then even after blood had been shed in the capitol mccarthy voted to disenfranchise all of the voters from pennsylvania and arizona based on those same lies. although he did have this moment of clarity in the hours after the insurrection. >> we will not falter. we will not bend. we will not shrink from our

john boehner and t, he's a college quarterback who was known throughout video. here are pretty impressive passes. john maccabee becomes one of the most powerful men in washington. how does that happen and what does he do? >> i examined the trunk show when i first visited trump tower and there was nobody there because they had hired anybody . they had made the announcement with five other people and one of the people they hired was out of college and he was very earnest and very polite and he gave me a tour of the place. i still have his business card. i think trump had actually made cards yet but he wasn't eager to please guy and he was what we call the body guy when trump was on air force one and allof that . but he was the kind of guy that volunteered for anything . he always wanted to be with trump and always wanted to be around trump so one of the best jobs if you're a white house staffer was when the president goes to play golf, you don't play golf with him but you have to go and sit there while he's out and john was always volunteering. anyway, he got fired

sold during the holiday period well, what do donald rumsfeld senator tom cotton donna brazil and john boehner common. we'll give you one answer and that's that. they've all worked with the javelin literary agency here in washington dc the president of that organization joins us now on about books keith urban, mr. urban. when did you start javelin and is it fair to call it a literary agency at this point? it is peter. we're one of the litter agencies here in dc. we started at my partner matt latimer and i did 10 years ago just over that we celebrated at our 10th anniversary. last fall and we've been we love what we do and it's fun to to work with authors. some of them you named i think we've worked with about 150 authors at this point in 10 years and i like to think we have the funnest job in washington dc with just all the conversations. we have all the intelligence we're hearing. it's just it's a it's a fun job to be at the intersection of publishing and media and politics. it's it's a joy. well, mr. urban, what does a literary agent do? well, we are well an unsharable way of putting it woul

>> don't tell that to the italians, myself included, or john boehner, by the way. >> exactly. >> elizabethhanks very much. >>> an alarming prediction from president biden. he says that russia in his view will ultimately move into ukraine. more on what exactly he, the u.s., its nato allies plan to do with if that happens. that's coming up. you can always spot a first time gain flings user. looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. in adults also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. ozempic® helped me get back in my type 2 diabetes zone. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or

john boehner viewed earmarks as sort of a gateway drug, that if you were out there getting earmarks forour district and you are willing to spend $500,000 to help create a community library in some area that just didn't have that, just make up an example, he always felt that meant you were then willing to go spend $500 million on another project or $500 billion on another project. that was the standard operating playbook of anti-spending deficit hawks. there is some validity to that. in the grander scheme of what we have just been through in the last five to six years in terms of government spending, when there have not been any earmarks. i think the total now it's up to $6 trillion in pandemic relief money, that poured into all manner of life in america and all the different agencies, to try and combat the coronavirus pandemic. there were no earmarks in that. there was a nearly $2 trillion tax cut that republicans approved at the end of 2017, to reduce revenues. that happened without earmarks. we are looking at a different era right now, in which government spending has exploded by ever