i think the american people want us to stand up and demand a little accountability from this lawless president. you know, one of the theories behind why the speaker is so reluctant to go forward on impeachment is that potentially she doesn t have 218 votes in the house, that if impeachment were to come to the floor, it wouldn t pass, not just because of republicans, but because of democrats. do you agree with that? well, i have the greatest respect for the speaker. she is a great leader. i don t agree with her entirely on the approach concerning this matter. i believe that our duty is not one of just taking a poll or doing the politically acceptable thing. we have a duty under the constitution. what we do about this lawless president will set the standard, will set the precedent for what happens when we have a president i don t know if it s possible to have a worse president than donald trump, but when we have another president, be it democratic or republican, who threatens our d
it or we can stand up and fight. i think the american people want us to stand up and demand a little accountability from this lawless president. you know, one of the theories behind why the speaker is so reluctant to go forward on impeachment is that potentially she doesn t have 218 votes in the house, that if impeachment were to come to the floor, it wouldn t pass, not just because of republicans, but because of democrats. do you agree with that? well, i have the greatest respect for the speaker. she is a great leader. i don t agree with her entirely on the approach concerning this matter. i believe that our duty is not one of just taking a poll or doing the politically acceptable thing. we have a duty under the constitution. what we do about this lawless president will set the standard, will set the precedent for what happens when we have a president i don t know if it s possible to have a worse president than donald trump, but when we have another president, be it democratic o
a lot of wriggle room yes if it wouldn t pass the british parliament i could see that one works on the fluffy language on the on the margins of these red lines but the core deal of what the e.u. could offer that is now on the table he s above a couple to you in london and the analogy has been made that this is like a traffic law and therefore if the first event was signing the deal then the handle to come for to me that may is pushing it through parliament what huddle lays ahead lays ahead. the hurdles here are quite simply this really she doesn t have a majority if you look around the house she is encircled by opponents because the neighbor party leader jeremy carbon has just said this is a miserable failure and this is the worst of all worlds this breaks a deal and we are going to vote it down she doesn t have on the further opposition venturous she doesn t have any friends do you appease and or northern irish unionists have said they don t want this deal they might still be open to
we have to have entitlements but we have to cut tax loopholes. it is a combination of both. they have sent us a clean cd. we should pass it. democrats will vote for it and 2 22 republicans will vote for it. if speaker boehner would put it on the floor it would pass. congressman fleming what do you say to that? judge. cr would not pass the house. it was attempted before it will not pass. it wouldn t pass. the only way to put it budget in the balance is pass entitlements. what happens if we default? what if we do default? if we come to the october 17th deadline we will
in california is behind this effort. some of the republicans in the house are demanding that they don t have anymore votes on bills that aren t supported by a majority of republicans. it wouldn t pass and the republicans alone voted for them. that s kind of ringing around the immigration discussion right now. after this week there s much less confidence. in california this weekend nancy pelosi at a conference of liberal activists was outright mocking the republican leadership of the house for not being able to even consider passing things with the a bipartisan coalition of democrats, which other congresss have done or at the last minute when we have to pass a funding bill has happened before. they ve created a permanent crisis mode but not the political conditions to get out of it. emily, we hear david mention the issue of leadership in the house. it looks like the immigration bill is going to pass the senate but then you have representative you have people like rand paul saying