they shot up under mitch mcconnell's leadership. despite his history, he is been trying to will himself past the basic math. they have three attempts to debate the house bill. homeland security runs out of funding on february 27th. as the clock ticks down house republicans have been watching the prospect of sticking it to the president grow dim. on wednesday, congressman mo brooks took to the house floor to blast senate leadership for failing to follow harry reid's example and use the nuke loor option. >> where is our republican senate leadership and why aren't they doing the same thing. we have 54 republican senators. mitch mcconnell the last time i checked is the senate republican majority leader. why don't they do the same thing in respect to bills that we have to pass to prevent government shut downs, dealing with spending matters, say only 51 votes is needed. no longer can a minority with a filibuster shut down the united states government. >> interesting proposal. that idea seems to have caught on for house conservatives, plea

protecting the department from overreach, described by law. >> mitch mcconnell agrees on one thing - it's the democrats fault. it remains to be seen whether the public sees it that way. if the department of homeland security runs out of money. joining us to discuss the political peril and the real-life prospect of a shutdown of the agency is john fury, republican strategist at the consulting firm quinn gillespie and brad miller, former u.s. representative from paul mcfarland's 13th distribute and a senior fellow at the roosevelt institute. how does this happen, you were an advisor for the speaker. you spoke with him in public, are these gamed out in advance before leadership embarks on a legislative tactic. >> he had not talked to o'con 'em. the leaders want plausible deny ability. the differences between the house and the cannesate were skinned by the founders to be hard to overcome. sometimes they are, when it should be a no-brainer, which is keeping the dhs open. everyone agrees closing the dhs is a stupid idea when lots of things are going on in the world. some republicans may wa

that's mitch mcconnell touting a rifle on stage last year. this year the senator and his gun reportedly staying home. he's not alone. house speaker john boehner is out too. let's talk about this with the political editor for the "washington times." one of the sponsor of cpac. what reception do you think mitch mcconnell would get if he did decide to attend cpac? >> given what dana was talking about, he would get a poor reception. it's possible he would get booed. you have this giant hotel ballroom with thousands of conservative activists who want to hear red meat speeches and right now the conservatives, even mitch mcconnell is caving on the fight that republicans promised conservative base for the last four months they would have this fight. mcconnell would get a cool reception. it's the first year in the last five years he hasn't been here. his office says of course part of the reason he's not going is because he has to be here on capitol hill dealing with this homeland security situation, which is absolutely true. there's some truth to that

mitch mccome introduced a plan to prevent the shutdown. it would split the immigration apart from the funding. it came after the democrats blocked the house passed bill for fourth time and that included language overturning the immigration action while also funding dhs. mcconnell praised the plan this morning and the democrats said it failed to address the problem. >> this sets up a simple political equation. either stand in defense of extreme over-reach or stand with constituents in support of shared democratic values. >> this is something i can't imagine why we have fiddled around here for four weeks and not a thing has happened in homeland security. and what senator mcconnell moved for the floor last night has nothing to do with funding homeland security. >> meanwhile president obama is making a push to avoid a shutdown and writing this in an op ed on the hill. it is time to end the era of manufactured crises and put politic as side and focus on doing what's best for america. so while i will fight any attempt to turn back the progress w

at the end of the day, mitch mcconnell is going to get what mitch mcconnell wants.ecause mitch mcconnell is a realist. he knows what will happen if they don't fund the department of homeland security by friday. >> a new round of nuclear negotiations will take place after a senior u.s. official revealed that progress was being made was made between iran and six world powers. the deal involves a nuclear freeze for at least ten years. american officials were pushing for up to 20 years. supporters of the prime minister are warning that there will be political consequences for democrats who skip his address to congress on march 3rd. dick durbin and dianne feinstein are inviteing him to a closed door meet inging. that went from messy to sloppy to messier. >> we have more stories to get to. >> this is irritating to you. it's like "wedding crashers" was. >> i stayed for 20 minutes of that. >> if you can walk out on this story, i'm going to get my congressional pen and put it right here. i'm going to go and sit down and watch it. >> you do some of your best work with this st

mitch mcconnell is trying to give them cover on this. this looks bad two months into the republicans' takeover of congress. john boehner has a very aggressive conservative faction within his house conference. he wants to allow them the opportunity to scream and yell because those are the people that could prohibit him holding on to his speakership. there's been talk about that, talk of a coup. i don't think that's going to happen, but it shows you the pressure john boehner is dealing with. >> what i can't figure out, kelly, why aren't mitch mcconnell and boehner talking? are they working through deputies or colleagues? who's negotiating among the republican leaders? >> it's so striking. normally there's no daylight between mitch mcconnell and john boehner on issues like that. they both can usually see the end game and usually have three legislative maneuvers in their pocket ahead of the curve. so that is unusual. i think there has long been and it has nothing to do with the current players, but there's an entrenched mistrust between the

it was a very big -- because of mitch, we all went on to -- not better, but things, and -- except for michael sarah. i don't know what happened to him. >> poor guy. >> nothing really happened. >> no career. >> jason was unheard of. >> hardly working at all >> no, they're all burgeoning. so i don't know how he did it. he is a genus. mitch is a jeanious. >> and that character >> i played two characters >> you didn't start with oscar until how long? >> no, i think two years into it. they put on a wig for george and they were going to cut the wig, and we went to mitch and he called all the writers there and they were -- i thought they were talking about where they were going to cut it, because the wig i had before was like this -- thing you get at -- i don't know, the woolworths or something, it was like putting a dog on my head. and we got this wig and he said, hold on a second. and then the next script was oscar, they never cut it. >> new character, didn't cut it >> new character >> bringing the show back after all that time being off >> yeah >> how hard it to get back into character >>

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now says that he is willing to pass a clean dhs bill as democrats initially requested. he would instead put his party's plan to repeal president obama's executive actions on immigration -- he's going to put that up for a separate vote. party leaders are expected to discuss the issue in a closed-door meeting today. nbc's tracie potts has the latest now from washington. tracie. >> reporter: hi, betty. we are going to talk about why you may not notice if this shutdown actually happens with homeland security. but first, the issue here has been republicans who want to oppose the president's immigration orders by blocking them as part of the funding for homeland security. and today, the administration is taking a new approach to convincing them otherwise. this afternoon, homeland security secretary jeh johnson's bringing in new firepower, his two predecessors both republicans, urging congress not to let the agency run out of money friday. >> we shouldn't compromise our homeland security just because republicans want to pick a political fight. >> reporter:

and mitch mcconnell said this he won now we have to deliver. now we have to prove we can get this congress moving we can get things done, we can govern, i get in a lot of hot water for up on the entire road from democrats saying i feel i have some optimism, a huge amount some level of optimism about the ability to get things done in the next two years because republican mitch mcconnell and john boehner recognize they have to show some accomplishment. and barack obama does too. the ingredients are there for a total chaos and also to come together on some issues like trade or tax reform or some others. what they have to deliver is why i am a little puzzled by the way they started out having control of congress and the first moves were to repeal the dream act. when you only get 27% of the latino vote in the last presidential election you don't want to go into this one by starting out with a declaration of war against the latino community. mitch mcconnell in the last day, basically from what we heard told the house republicans we are not going to d

i think mitch mcconnell is looking at that. the question is, you know, if the court gave them an escape, then let's go ahead and do what we have done since 2001. there are threats out there in the world, isis, and people that only talk about the borders. we have cyber threats, terrorism, drugs, people coming in, threats to our country. we going to threaten the security of our country by not funding homeland security? it is just be on me that we would do this at this time at this moment to get the policy issue, a policy fight, and stop the funding. greta: dallas, texas. a republican color. the morning to you. caller: good morning. my name is elizabeth and i live in dallas, texas. a hispanic community. on television, they show these kids off to college. for the majority, that is not true. we have large gang violence here . we have problems in the schools. and my school, w h adamson high school, in the afternoon, there are lawyers going for despot and the other kids. i was telling the school, why don't you -- think about jiabao ra

even though mitch mcconnell made his intentions known on monday. so john boehner is doing exactly as he's done since he started his speakership. he's allowing for the conservative faction of his conference to beat their chest, to scream and yell to try and figure out a way to quote unquote stand up to the president regarding this issue of immigration in the past. it's been different issues, but at the end of the day, especially when mcconnell cuts this deal we know that john boehner is going to have to take what mcconnell is giving him from the senate. it's just a question of when not a question of if. so in this case john boehner today at his press conference was trying to move it along, coming up with different marshawn lynches, just saying the same thing over and over. around 5:00 today, came to the realization that, okay we're going to have to do something because we don't want to allow homeland security funding to expire. the one thing i will point out, lawrence that came to my mind during that press conference, if the shoe was on the other fo

mitch mcconnell at first he wasn't going to push forward on the vote. he decided to do it. it's a symbolic vote. the senate won't afford another shutdown. and i think they're just stuck in a corner. i think it will be very hard for the majority leader to figure a way out of this. it's been very interesting to see the fighting going on between speaker boehner and mitch mcconnell. >> does this make the republicans in your view look impotent with majority control of the senate and house they're running up against a president who is stymieing them on every front, it seems. >> well, i have to say, john mccain is voting with the democrats and urging other republicans to do that. if the republicans can't stick together to get 54 votes, they won't win on many things. the fact is, on the last election, i wish they would be clear with the message. in the senate, it takes 60. having more than 50 is great, you can pick the majority leader. it takes 60 to get work done. it's a hard cold reality that american people and the conservatives are realizing. who knows where it will end. it mig

we're live in center city mitch blocker, nbc 10 news. >>> thank you, mitch. >>> well what is the storm doing now? what can we expect for the rest of the day? glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with the forecast. and, glenn, it looks like the sun is out in a number of areas throughout our region. >> yes. the storm moved in pretty fast and moved out prest fast. that's what limited the snow accumulations across the area. was coming down pretty hard in the middle of the night. one place that would have liked it even more snow probably. camel back mountain in the poconos. mix of sun and clouds right now. it is very cold. and they're going to be unbelievably cold as we go into the end of the week. this is the last of the snow in new jersey. that's it. just a few little flakes in central jersey near toms river and then it is gone. and we have dry conditions the rest of the day and tonight. look how cold it is. it is in the teens. it feels a little bitetter because there is not much wind and the sun is out in some areas. the sun's rays are more powerful this time of the year than january or la

mitch, i was young once; i know what it means when you have tostitos. uh...ld tell you some stories. man, these rolls hold a lot of queso. so are you, like, fired? actually, i think i'm getting a promotion. shake what you've got everybody. not you, mitch. yes, sir. vo: nothing brings people together like new tostitos rolls! chips. tostitos. bring the party. >> larry: welcome back to the show! joining our panel tonight is rolling stone journalist matt taibbi, founder and c.e.o. of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america journalist paul rieckhoff, comedienne sabrina jalees, and former special ops sniper and author of "the reaper," nick irving. (cheers and applause) thank you. appreciate it. it's amazing a movie like this will make $200 million. why do you think that? >> it's a great movie. it's communicating what we as veterans haven't been able to communicate for a decade. there are a lot of pieces to pull apart but at the end of the day it's powerful. the veterans community is behind it. it feels authentic and real and it's entertaining. that has america tal

coming up in just ten minutes, mitch blacher looks at the city's oldest and most brittle gas lines. why one official told him those lines keep him up at night. >>> a live look from our camera on camel back mountain. one region that woke up to record-breaking temperatures today. the first alert radar showing a system moving in from the west. nbc10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz joining us with his first alert forecast. >> that could have an impact on the southern part of our area. >> absolutely. we have one storm that is near the southern part of our area right now. that one's a fairly small one. and it's moving eastward. but look how close that snow is to southern delaware. the next one is a bigger storm coming farther north. you can see the spin in the southwestern part of the country. already a fair amount of moisture for a storm in that place. now, you can see gulf of mexico moisture added to the mix as we go through tomorrow. it's going to snow in atlanta and raleigh, north carolina. here it comes. thursday morning rush on the northern edge. it's cold enough for

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majority leader mitch mcconnell today called for the senate to separate the issues. he wants a separate strait up or down vote on whether to counter mand the president's executive orders on immigration. >>> the second is a word of breakthrough to win a long-term halt in iran's nuclear program. we'll get to that biggie next. >>> let's start with mitch mcconnell's okay to move ahead with a homeland security bill, but also with a separate bill to counter mand president obama's executive orders on immigration. weapon kelly oy donnell to tell us what this all means. it's an interesting division, it will have a vote to basically avoid a shutdown. security spending, but also expos those moderate and conservative democrats to perhaps vote against the president and vote to countermand his executive orders on immigration. >> exactly. mitch mcconnell has come with an idea that would take the heat off republicans and congress and really all of congress by findic a way to fund the department of homeland security and do the sort of right thing. but he also wanted to keep the press

nbc10's mitch blacher joining us from 69th street terminal in upper darby county to explain. >> reporter: septa already has crews out already in case anything goes wrong because of the cold. as for those who are in the cars, the cold has already started to take its toll. the battery sitting on jim's garage floor are casualty of the cold. he runs sid's auto. aaa is getting almost 900 calls about dead batteries in philadelphia alone. despite that mccray says it's usually not your engine or tires that fail you in the cold. he says watch your windshield wipers. make sure they don't stick to your windshield. if you're riding septa -- >> just bundle up warm. that's all you can do. >> reporter: -- fellow riders were heralding seat warmers on the broad street line. >> they have seat warmers in there so when you get in there, get all warm and everything. >> reporter: we found everything includes the trains themselves. septa is keeping as many as possible in tunnels overnight. some may have speed restrictions depending on conditions. septa so far has no train modifications to its normal train sche

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mitch, i was young once; i know what it means when you have tostitos. uh...oh, i could tell you some stories. man, these rolls hold a lot of queso. so are you, like, fired? actually, i think i'm getting a promotion. shake what you've got everybody. not you, mitch. yes, sir. vo: nothing brings people together like new tostitos rolls! chips. tostitos. bring the party. [cheers and applause] >> okay. thank you, very much. thank you. we're back with our panel talking about black fatherhood. before we left. i'm here with common joe jones, charles and mike yard. now before we left obama was down on my boy common. no, i want to bring up though a lost times when there is criticism about this issue. bill cosby said pull your pants up. he's a different story. people looked at him and felt he was preaching to him. even when obama made his speech in 2008, jesse jackson was not happy. he was caught off mike talking about it let's roll that first. (whispering) >> he wanted to cut his nuts off. this is -- this is the reverend jesse jackson. common this is not an easy subject

afterwards mitch mcconnell took to the floor and said it's time to take a different approach in the effort to fund dhs. mcconnell aims to present a bill that will target the immigration policy separate from the one that will fund homeland security. jay johnson warned what this

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and eunuch mitch mcconnell squeal likes a pig, in their headlines.f john boehner agrees with this plan republicans will make another run at his job. republicans won big in the last election. >> did they? >> they did and listen to the democratic harry reid he just had eye surgery so he's wearing sunglasses inside. democrats know democrats know this is really dividing the republicans. >> unless the speaker is in on the proposealproposal of course we have to make sure we get a bill to the president. not that we send a hot potato to boehner that doesn't do the trick. >> what's going do happen here? the president will in miami today at a town hall meeting, he believes this issue helps him and helps the democratic party. he's going to push his immigration ideas, house republicans came back into town they meet today. conservatives don't like this mcconnell plan. are we going to see another implosion in the republican party? >> i don't think we know how it's going to play out yet. the one thing we know is that when mcconnell and boehner had hoped to have hap

mitch mcconnell.itch mcconnell. listen to what president obama said about him. >> our republican leader in the senate, as he was coming in after having tried to block every single thing that we've done to strengthen the economy, starts looking at job numbers and says you know it's getting better because we just got elected. and people are feeling more optimistic. which -- okay. i diplomat knowdn't know that's how the economy worked, but maybe. >> you know mcconnell claiming credit for the recovery pass the laugh test angela? >> you know it doesn't pass the laugh test rev. we know since mitch mcconnell's not a scientist, he's clearly not an economist either. the president jabbing him there was a good one and and effective one. it would be good to see what kind of middle class economics are you touting when the only concerns you've had is my ceo bonus wasn't quite large enough. at some point your rhetoric has to match the policies that you push and they won't even consider a minimum wage raise in the se

what does mitch mcconnell propose? >>> and is this the woman who lured three british girls from home to join isis in syria? a new focus on the isis bride as officials from britain and turkey try to find the missing trio. >>> freezing rain and ice. look at that. sent a plane skidding off the runway. trucks dangling from bridges. it is not just the northeast, folks, also in the deep south. we will tell you the areas hardest hit. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is tuesday, february 24th. new this morning, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell trying to break the stalemate over funding of the department of homeland security after a fourth failed senate vote monday night on the house's vote of the funding bill. mcconnell announced a separate vote on executive orders on immigration. democrats and republicans expressing doubt if mcconnell can get that vote done by the end of the week. if not, homeland security funding runs out sunday. forcing employees to stay home or work

. >>> well, mitch mcconnell has a new strategy to end the strandoff over the funding of homeland security and republicans don't like it. and a texas jury is deliberating right now. they are deciding the fate of eddie ray routh, the man who killed the real american sniper, chris kyle. >> it's really sad to see the gamesmanship, the -- i don't know what to call it, the silliness. >> i can't find nibble who thinks it's a good idea to shut down the department of homeland security. >> congress races against the clock. >> the standoff that threatens to shut down homeland security. >> this bill removes excuses, it sets up a simple political equation. >> mitch mcconnell offered a vote on a funding bill without immigration measures. >> the problem is, everybody, i'm waiting to hear from the speaker. >> we need a commitment from speaker boehner. >> where's the house? >> i'm waiting to hear from the speaker. >> the jury is about to get the case in the american sniper trial. >> two weeks of testimony from three dozen witnesses boils down to this. was he insane or deliberate when he shot the two at th

lou: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell giving democrats exactly what they wanted.stopped to help the president's executive amnesty. harry reid is waiting to hear from house speaker boehner now before striking a deal. >> i had a nice pleasant meeting with senator mcconnell this morning. he has announced to caucus that he is willing to have an up-or-down vote on dhs funding and some kind of a vote on columns. the problem is i'm waiting to hear from the speaker, we have to make sure that people understand the bicameral nature of this congress that we serve in, so to have senator mcconnell pass the ball over to the house isn't going to do the trick. lou: our next guest says the latest senate strategy gives the president the opportunity to fund dhs and veto legislation that would stop executive amnesty. joining us is congressman luke messer, the chairman of the house republican policy committee, also serves on the financial services and education workforce committees. good to have you with us congressman. it sounds to me like senator reid and his colleagues there schume

but good for mitch mcconnell for thinking and doing it this way.democrats have been able to draft a bill and bring it. but they didn't. >> mitch mcconnell is going to walk the line with the conservatives in the republican party. stacy, what are you thinking? >> for republicans, national security is number one on our agenda. that is for sure. so i cannot see that happening on friday. that is not goying going to happen. this is much to do about nothing. they should have two clean bills, it should be left to the court and that is how it should go. >> this is a court thing right now. they should put it into the supreme court, let it go that way, they should thought stop and congressman king is xktly right. we should not shutdown anything. make a compromise. get it done. it republicans will get blamed for it. where is nancy pelosi? did they let her out of the cage yet? >> oh, boy. the timing of this is just horrible for republicans, too. look at the conversation focused on the mall of america and the west edmonton mall in canada. those things mentioned

it does seem the path has been laid out by mitch mcconnell.y curious why john boehner is not taking it. thank you for unraveling that. >> take care. be well. >>> as congress continues to play hardball on dhs funding and immigration, i'll speak to the man who knows the d.c. game the best. msnbc's chris matthews will be here onset right after the break. plus, it's been aç bad few weeks for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who's caught up in a stoz f of controversy, both foreign and domestic that's of his own making. steve clemens will be back to discuss bibi's damage control. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you? what...? jesse don't go! jesse...no! i'm sorry daisy, but i'm a loner. and a loner gotta be alone. heee yawww! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. jesse? it's just you and your honey. the setting is perfect. but then erectile dysfunction happens again. you know what? plenty of guys have this is

comment on mitch mcconnell. politico who tweets, mcconnell said little about the way forward on d.h.s. this morning. he said it's good to see democrats finally bring an end to their weeks-long filibuster. another tweet from nancy pelosi. under the republican homeland security shut down, 169,000 d.h.s. employees would have to work without pay. again the current spending measure expires at midnight friday. looks like the senate will pass a clean measure without any immigration riders. garfield, new jersey republican callers only. go ahead. caller: good morning. a comment, two days ago, tuesday morning, we heard senator barbara boxer on the senate floor saying how criticizing the republicans debate on this immigration, the immigration riders to the homeland security funding, was an unrelated issue and should be taken up separately from funged homeland security. well, my comment is when the president and the democrats inserted the immigration funding into the d.h.s. bill, then it was relevant and an essential part o

mitch and i spoke at the beginning. i said mitch, i can't play politics with this. i can't.e senate republicans would rather vote for a clean bill. i think they're trying to help the republican, our friends on the house side. they're in a quandary right now. we've got to put our priorities on on who we are an americans first. rise above the republican and democrat jargon going back and forth. i think you've seen me vote against the democrats when they tried to do some of the same things. i don't think it's right. >> i agree with you. in the big picture, you got till saturday to fund homeland security. so you're not going to go along with that. what is your view if the funding is not there after saturday? it would just allow these guys and women to go to work and not get paid? >> that's a shame, too. we have 600 people in my beautiful state of west virginia that work for homeland security. it's a shame. if you think 14% of them would be furloughed completely and the rest would have to go to work not knowing when they get their paycheck. we are a better country than this. it s

mitch mcconnell's next best thing. >> reporter: trying to avoid a partial homeland security shut down mitch mcconnell has offered a new plan splitting congressional pushback on president obama's latest executive action from funding the agency. >> i indicated to the democratic leader that i would be happy to have his cooperation to advance the consideration of a clean dhs bill which would carry us through until september 30. >> reporter: maine independent said they have concern with the president's action but all supported the bill with homeland security and immigration together. earlier said the democrats should have no issue. >> this would address the president's most recent overreach from november. the bill isn't tied to dhs funding. there is no excuse for our friends on the other side to oppose it. >> reporter: this morning joe mansion said he would back the new plan. >> i will support the action on a bill that would prevent the president from executive actions. we need to have a clean vote on homeland security bill. >> reporter: and then harry reid started facing questions if his

have mitch mcconnell cram legislation down the house's throat. house republicans fight the president. they may fight their constituents, who want a secure america. a shutdown at the department of homeland security. peter cook in washington. what are you focused on in this madness? peter: i'm watching the llamas on capitol hill. it is an unusual situation. the tension is between republicans on capitol hill -- republicans in the house and in the senate. we've seen it play out in public. john boehner saying over the last two weeks he has not spoken to mitch mcconnell. you will see republicans in the senate passed a clean funding bill. throw in the towel over the fight of immigration. you will see the house do something very different. pass a three-week extension and come back to fight. john boehner is not willing to capitulate. his conservative conference are applauding him. they want him to continue to fight. tom: what is the distance to march 19? what is the import? peter: the three-week time period is important. a couple other fights. the debt ce

the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is able to do it in his chamber. speaker boehner will have to pass an identical bill so that it originaltes there and go back to the senate. how they do that befriday is beyond me. >> congressman, i don't know that they can do it by friday. i think they have waited -- they played this game too far down and they're going to go over the cliff. they may rescue themselves by extending it some way by two or three days or something these people in a terrible place. it's unbelievable they could say this is what the american people wanted in the 2014 elections. they want a government that works. >>> its amazing this kind of stuff is still happening. congressman mcdermott and jonathan capehart thank you both for your time tonight. >>> coming up breaking news from hillary clinton's first public speech in month, dropping hints about 2016 saying there's a, quote, special spot in hell for women who don't help other women. republican candidates, are you listening? >>> also the progressive warrior, elizabeth warren has a new plan f

and mitch mcconnell wants to bifurcate the issue of funding homeland security and the issue of funding obama's executive amnesty. ted cruz says no our constitutional authority is the power of the purse and advice and consent. and we need to use it now. and if the department of homeland security's not funded, put it on the democrats. who do you stand with strategically? >> well, of course ted cruz. but you have to understand that mitch mcconnell will get all kinds of dividends on this from editorials in "new york times." they will be praising his bravery. >> is that what we want now? conservative leaders to be on the "new york times." >> takes a lot of courage to betray your constituents, to break your promise in the interest of bipartisanship and that is what mitch mcconnell is going for. no, of course this is a total cave. it is nothing like prior government shutdowns. it's not a government shutdown. how many times do we have to go through this? the entire government is funded except this one agency, department of homeland security which as you say they all have to go to work anyway.

john boehner and mitch mcconnell aren't happy with the president. they say the allure of appeasing environmental extremists may be too powerful for the president to ignore but the president is mistaken if he thinks thell end this fight. far from it. we're just getting started. whatever that means. after the president's veto mitch mcconnell said the senate will consider a veto override on march 3rd. on january 29th, the senate was five votes shy of the 67 votes needed for an override. even if the overrides this veto you can't build it because of imminent domain issues in nebraska so what is going to happen? let's back up a little bit. first of all, this is a serious statement by the president of the united states that he is definitely serious and concerned about climate change and willing to do something about it. secondly, and i'm sure i'll be corrected on this if i'm wrong, but it sure feels this way that this is the first president in a long time that has lived up to what he has told the native americans, that he was aware of their concerns and th

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that is what mitch mcconnell, as leader of the senate needs to be doing.u seen him on capitol hill and talk to him face-to-face? guest: i have seen him. i have not talked to him face-to-face. host: will is waiting on the line from tennessee. caller: good morning, gentlemen. we think a lot of c-span. it gives us an open window to our government and what is going on in the background. let me say three things. first, i was once a democrat. there are reasons that i left. i guess the main reason is that there is not much being done but needs party, whether democrat or republican. here is where i see the difference between democrats and republicans. democrats, through history, have always been humanitarian. if it were not for the title program, we would be lost. minimum wage is a joke today. it is because neither democrats or republicans seem to care. it is that top 2% is getting the money. there is no way out for the poor. number two republicans are of course what we call capitalists. they are for private enterprise. that was good at the turn of the century and

may be some senators mitch mcconnell, others that want to move forward and fund dhs. then you have other republicans who are very vocal, out there on fox news and on talk radio saying that we are not going to give in at all. those people maybe aren't as helpful as other more moderate republicans. >> as amanda pointed out, she sees it as this aggressive stance this year from the president. that as you well know was not the story line after the mid terms. he was someone in a lot of ways that his own party wondered how effective a president he would be. he is showing at least he has a few cards left in the deck. >> i tell you, you watch the fact his approval ratings have gone up dramatically since mid terms, it gives his administration more confidence they're on the right track, but gives democratic members of house and senate more confidence working with this white house. what's most compelling especially watching response on homeland security and also on keystone is watching the way democrats in the house and senate worked so well with the white house, articulating a c