their glee with her being the minority leader of your party. you ve been a critic of pelosi. i mean, you re a fan, but you ve criticized her as being at the top of the ticket. can the democrats win back the house with nancy pelosi scheduled to be speaker, yes or no? i think it will be very hard, sam. i just you know, we can do it because it s donald trump, but i mean, you think, what if it was john kasich or marco rubio? we would be in real trouble right now as a party, and we can t forget that fact. but i think it s going to be more challenging, certainly. you see these commercials that tie these candidates to leader pelosi week in and week out in the last several months. that still moves the needle, you know? and so, we re asking candidates in these deep, red districts to battle the republican party. we ve got a lot of energy in our base, which is very xooiting for a lot of us to see that on the ground, but you ve got to beat the republican and you ve got to carry this very toxic
services committee. she s been an outspoken critic of this bill. she said that he will oppose anybody lobbying for this bill. you know who is one person lobbying for it? president obama. as well as harry reid. we have a very interesting dynamic on capitol hill. nancy pelosi and elizabeth warren holding the line against gop leadership, but president obama and harry reid who like this bill because they believe it s the best thing they can have before the gop has more of a large majority coming in the next year. we ve never seen this type of democratic fighting before on a spending bill this late in the process, especially when you only have six hours until the government runs out of money. make no mistake about it, though, i want to talk about elizabeth warren, who you brought up there. we often talk about the power that ted cruz has in the house republican conference. elizabeth warren, showing that if she joins nancy pelosi, not only does she have a lot of
power, but her message is also resonating deeply. i spoke to a lot of house democrats today, reverend, who used terms about wall street i ve not heard them use. that wall street were villains, that wall street had stolen from the people, that wall street had gotten fat while everybody had gotten poor. wondering where this was ahead of the mid terms. the liberals who made it through the mid terms, they want to fight on this ground of economic inequality and it s something they ll go to the 11th hour ahead of a shutdown. the politics can be interesting. how many votes does the speaker need to pass this? i just spoke to a gop aide, and they said, at a minimum, they need about 50 democratic votes. be more secure with 60 or 70. if nancy pelosi thought this bill was beiokay, they could ha it in a second.
the republican party s priorities. they knew he was spending this money. look, it doesn t take four years to figure out you don t have anything. it s their priorities. that s what they do. and that s how they re going to govern. and that s why that midterm election was so important, and now you can put dollars and cents with votes and see what s happened. what i m afraid of, we re going to get the same thing. all we re doing is playing musical chairs. weers just changing the seat. that s all. very poor record and we won t be sorry to see him leave that investigative chair. we invited him on this show many times. he never accepted. joe madison, thank you for your time tonight. thank you, reverend. still ahead, hacked e-mails reveal hollywood power players joking about president obama. also, mcdonald s attempt to make mcnuggets more appealing. will which video change public
unfortunately for republicans, they don t have that right now. they re struggling in a holding pattern, waiting to see what will happen out of this meeting. if you think about the 200 democrats that they have in the caucus, the fact they can t get to 40 or 50, really shows the power of pelosi and warren. whether there s an all-out lobbying effort right now. i talked to members who are getting calls, telling them to go forward on this. the obamacare gives them money to go after isis, for ebola. but a lot of priorities that are protected for the next fiscal year. the house democrats don t care, they want to fight about dodd-frank, and they want to fight now. you re saying the white house is saying they would get a worse bill when the republicans take over in january. but the fact is that the government would not shut down. they do have a plan b in case they don t get the votes, isn t that right? sure. the backup plan was they would have something that lasts maybe a week, maybe it s a