meeting, but they did have smaller conversations, smaller calls. the house, jose, you ll remember, is gone for the next two weeks. they can be brought back. they ll have 72 hours notice if there s going to be a vote. but conversation still very much happening behind the scenes in the house, and of course in the senate, you ve got to know where manchin and sinema are. and ali, there is no deadline now, right? because that was just kind of blown through last week. right, there s no deadline. but i think the thing to keep in mind here is the infrastructure bill on the bipartisan front was done with a foundation of that surface transportation bill. we saw the house and senate before the weekend, before they all left town, move to extend the highway transportation bill for about a month. that gets them to october 31st. what s going to be important about that date is that they re going need to talk about that bill in tandem with the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the reconciliation b
politics in the last five or ten years in politics is in the last five or ten years in politics is that everybody wants to -et politics is that everybody wants to get rid politics is that everybody wants to get rid of politics is that everybody wants to get rid of the norms or the typical practices get rid of the norms or the typical practices that stand in the way of their practices that stand in the way of their desire political outcomes. i m a guy their desire political outcomes. i m a guy who their desire political outcomes. i m a guy who thinks these norms need to matter~ a guy who thinks these norms need to matter~ we a guy who thinks these norms need to matter. we passed a highway transportation bill, surface transportation bill, surface transportation bill, surface transportation bill in this country, everyone transportation bill in this country, everyone at several passes been on a bipartisan everyone at several passes been on a bipartisan basis. they have
risk. he has now destroyed any trust our allies have with us. he s also destroyed any type of intelligence asset we have in the region. do you think any of our assets that have been providing us intelligence whether now talk to the united states intelligence committee? no, because they know they can t rely on us when times get tough and we will abandon them the way the president has just abanded our kurdish allies. on impeachment, where does the senate stand? i support the investigation by the house and i m just going to let the house move forward with the investigation. there is a lot of work that still needs too big done here in the senate that while we wait for that investigation to move on forward, we have a lot of work that we need to focus on for the maeamerican people. i m working on a highway transportation bill, for example. we need to put money into lockes and dams on the mississippi. we need to help farmers who are in crisis right now. so let the investigation in the hou
to build things. as anybody knows, it s fun to wreck things and blow them up with m-8 0s. they have not yet demonstrated the capacity to do keep something worth having. i think paul ryan would be a step. they have to show they can build something. they do. and i m a conservative. so building the 218 consensus, let s say paul ryan doesn t do it a.b. john boehner stays on. you ve got a debt ceiling vote coming up. funding the government vote coming up. a highway transportation bill and he starts moving things that only can pass with democratic votes. i think the best scenario for paul ryan or any successor to john boehner is that john boehner does what he says he was going to do before. which would put kevin mccarthy in a tough spot. barn-cleaning procedure. he gets through the export
to build things. as anybody knows, it s fun to wreck things and blow them up with m-8 0s. they have not yet demonstrated the capacity to do keep something worth having. i think paul ryan would be a step. they have to show they can build something. they do. and i m a conservative. so building the 218 consensus, let s say paul ryan doesn t do it a.b. john boehner stays on. you ve got a debt ceiling vote coming up. funding the government vote coming up. a highway transportation bill and he starts moving things that only can pass with democratic votes. i think the best scenario for paul ryan or any successor to john boehner is that john boehner does what he says he was going to do before. which would put kevin mccarthy in a tough spot. barn-cleaning procedure. he gets through the export import bank authorization.