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Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) were among a group of progressive Democrats that put up last-minute resistance to the House s $1.9 billion Capitol security package this morning. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
DEMS IN (MOMENTARY) DISARRAY House Democrats barely passed their security supplemental this morning following some last-minute resistance from the so-called Squad. The issue? Progressives complained that the $1.9 billion to fortify Capitol security didn’t address accountability for some officers they say were “complicit” in the riot, forcing the leadership to do a last-minute whip
mid-term elections. talk about the economy and health care. then another camp that says in 2020 you got to be combative u-got to play trump s game, fight the way he fights. i m going to fight. i m going fight. we re not going to be able to beat this guy by being nice. he s not nice. the republican party is not nice. it s like we got to stop fighting a battle where our enemy is wearing brass knuckles and we re carrying a pillow. time to knuckle up. senator ojeda, a pleasure to meets you. good luck with your run. president trump has conclupded his tweet on special counsel robert mueller. he began with the inner workings of the mueller investigation is a total mess. they found no collusion and gone nuts. screaming and shouting at people threatening them to come up with answer they want. they are a disgrace to our nation and don t, then he just
justice investigation because of your threats to fire jeff sessions. sure. you know, trump apparently has no impulse control here. i feel certain that his lawyers have warned him on repeated occasions against discussing anything to do with his attorney general publicly. apparently, though, he just can t help himself. and the irony is that sessions and look, i think i need to say it, and i never thought these words would come out of my mouth but i agree with trump, that sessions is not a real attorney general and i look forward to getting back to the days when we can discuss criminal justice and civil rights where sessions is failing as an attorney general. but what he s doing remarkably well is he s going ahead and putting into play trump s agenda, whether it s immigration, criminal justice, and he s doing it almost emaculately, and with very little attention and hasn t drawn the negative attention that some of trump s other
dealing with congress. i actually think he should have been more candid with congress talking about it. but that s going to be an impact. and the political process of confirming him. eli stokels last point, the bluff seems to be the only play trump has. does washington think this is the way to go? i don t know that washington is of one mind on this. but donald trump will be deciding on what qualifies as fruitful in these meetings. and he s not been clear and really doesn t offer clarity about what he thinks that is. he wouldn t answer the question yesterday about whether releasing the prisoners is a precondition to sitting down with unand he has not given any real clarity about whether or not the u.s. is seeking complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula or would settle for something less than that. we should remind our audience there are three americans still in detainment as prisoners of
promoting a movie, scary movie called mother. she is accused of insulting the president during an interview to promote that movie. she said it is polarizing and upsetting, seen things on tv in my own country to devastate me and make me sick, it is confusing. the reporter times and saying you find donald trump confusing? jennifer lawrence says i don t find them confusing, i think i know exactly what he is. she also tried to lay trump supporters with climate change, a lot of people are upset about that. tj says please watch my movie, new hollywood scientist afraid to deliver hollywood approved facts. a little open-ended but people upset about that. the worst thing about october,