mitch mcconnell wants unused covid money to cover more shots. mcconnell side stepped fox s question about vaccinating illegal immigrants. it ought to be entirely paid for out of money that s already in the pipeline. any red lines? i think it ought to be paid for. as lawmakers haggle over covid cash, republicans question cdc guidance. the g.o.p. accuses the cdc of cozying up to teacher s unions. relying on them to establish school reopening policies. the damaging edits by union boss effectively kept thousands of schools shuttered across the country which locked millions of children out of their classrooms. did you engage with any parents groups. we did. in fact, we did. i personally did. republicans hope anthony fauci would testify. wave could force schools and other venues to revert to old protocols. we should be prepared and flex to pivot towards going back at least temporarily to a more
someone will put the hand on the wheel at the last minute and steer it out of the freight train because it is a policy issue, i think, contrary and most policy analysts who have been working on health care reform from the conservative free market side despise this for death spiral reasons because it keeps the framework of obamacare in place and degrades it in certain areas and then also a politics issue. you don t want to be on the wrong side of a 20% to 80% thing here. so, part of what we re talking about here is a 50/50 split right now and i think that will probably stay with us because it s interesting that no one else jumped forward to be the one to tell donald trump he doesn t get this bill passed. there is a very good persuasive case to be made from the mcconnell side which is if you don t do this right now chuck schumer will write the next one and also why are you so afraid of debate? i don t think anyone disagrees this is the last best chance. doug in the last ten seconds wha
not long ago with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in these negotiations on all the domestic issues. you asked mitch mcconnell whether it was smart for trump to get into a twitter fight with the mexican president. indeed, i did. mcconnell side stepping that, not wanting to give the president of the united states advice. i asked him specifically, should president trump tone it down and try to salvage this relationship with mexico? take a listen to mcconnell s response. i don t have any advice to give to the president about that issue. we are moving ahead. as the speaker pointed out to our group yesterday with
social services and social programs. you might cut the pentagon but you don t cut medicare. you don t cut social security. when asked about pentagon spending and spending cuts yesterday, mcconnell side stepped that. we didn t really hear about it. ultimately, as we look to the future, you have to look at the past. i thought the message of november was washington, you re spending way too much. so we think that the american public would be on the side of the republicans. that s right. let s just stop spending so much. until it comes to cutting your spending program where you get the benefits that s the problem. and you can easily demagogue this, can t you? you re taking money off children. you are starving the elderly and easy to do that. isn t it becoming class warfare? the president and his men are talking about, you know, soaking the rich. those guys are really successful. take money out of their pocket oochl ayou . you re talking to an englishman about class warfare. you re