what he was talking about in all the decisions and statements he cited were from the 2010 congress that passed it. but the 2017 congress got rid of it and wanted everything else to stand. so it was really done on the wrong congress. i think she s right. i think the fifth circuit will stand. pre-existing conditions. all out the window under his ruling. former director of the fbi is arriving on the hill now. we mentioned earlier this is his second day of testimony before house republicans in a lame duck session, looking to ask him more hard questions, particularly how he handled the clinton e-mail investigation. we ll be listening in to see afterwards if he speaks to reporters, a story we re certainly watching there. back to our featured guest,
yesterday but i don t see the means for a serious challenge, for a challenge that might actually take the nomination away from president trump. his support among the republicans continues to be very strong, 85%. right. in the latest polls we ve seen. so you don t even see the president you rarely see the president even challenged on a polish from republican members of congress. yeah. so i think that will be i ll be curious to see if there s a real challenge to him in 2020. it s a really, really hard thing to do, to challenge even an unpopular incumbent. especially in a strong economy, if it holds. true. of course, there is the mueller report hanging over. there is that. seung min kim, the president has a new chief of staff after looking around, in mick mulvaney. we want to remind folks of what he said during the 2016 campaign, if it s something that sticks in the president s mind. yes, i m supporting donald trump, i m doing so
the dividing congress is a microcosm of what s going on around the country. this feeling of anger and mistrust between republicans and democrats is growing. in response, a nonprofit group called bettering is traveling across the country to help bring people together. nbc s rehema ellis caught up with them in blooming ton, i understand i indiana and she joins me now. reporter: this is a group of people that want america to work. they came together as volunteers. six republicans, six democrats, willing to sit down and talk guided by the better angels organizer. these participants were asked to listen and try to understand each other, not change minds. we were like the fly on the wall and just observed what often felt like an intensive and very massive marriage counseling session that went on the whole day. we re here to seek understanding. reporter: the day began with both sides listing the negative stereotypes they think the other has about them. we felt the stereo types for us
i want to commend speaker boehner for listening to the american people and for leading, for the house of representatives to stand up and vote to defund obama care. is a tremendous victory to the american people. here we go again. extreme tea party voices holding the republican party in congress hostage. let me take you back a little bit, february 16, 2009. it may have just been a typical president s day but it was something much more for a young woman named kelly caringder with a pierced nose and you may have mistaken her for the kind of person that cam mained for president obama. as the saying goes, don t judge a book by looking at the cover. she was so frustrated she decided to hold a protest against what she called the
really to show that the u.s. is not going to be sort of strung along for a long time? that these deadlines are hard and fast and they really need to meet them or else we re going to have to go to another process? i think that is the intent and i think that s because the fear here really is that the russian and syrian s strategy is to stall the u.s. frankly, the administration probably wanted to be stalled a little bit because they wouldn t get a syria authorization bill through congress. being stallaled by the russians may buy them time to implement their own strategy but want a signal they won t be jerked away. s they entire noman s land we re in, we re not operating with a defined weapons inspection regime nap is a kron forecast to iraq. some point to the that saying that makes the united states job and this administration s job so much harder, because we re not dialing up u.n. resolutions that have been passed and agreed to and leaping on weapons inspectors. they re making up the