and the president playing a key role leading up to the boat. vote and let s bring in fox news sr. good evening to you, what s happening on the floor right now? they go through vote after vote after vote and this is kind of the precursor and this might happen sometime at one or 2:00. this is a question of when and not if. they will pass this bill sometime later. and not expected to be needed is vice president pence. there is nothing democrats can do to stop this and they are not pleased. this will mark today as one of the darkest black letter days in the long history of the senate. this unfortunately is the
it has not done anything to save american lives. the government hasn t been able to show any examples of this nsa bulk data collection program, playing a key role in thwarting any terror plots. they basically say this is not the vital anti-terrorism tool that the government says it is. where does the white house stand on this, athena? well, the white house wants to see reforms. they support the lee foreforms house that would remove the data that s collected from the hands of the government to private companies themselves. listen to what white house press secretary josh ernests had to say. we have got people in the united states senate right now who are playing chicken with us. they re in a situation where they re saying to try to do just a two-week extension on or a short-term extension. of these critical national security authorities. and to play chicken with that is
until one day you wake up and it s not. good day, i m andrea mitchell live in washington. margaret thatcher, elected in 1979 as britain s first woman prime minister died today at the age of 87, she had been in poor health for many years. in her day she was indomitable. leading great britain for more than 11 years, longer than any british politician in the 20th century. she was steadfast and dominant. transforming britain after 35 years of labor government, to end union rule. leading her country to victory in the falklands war, playing a key role with ronald reagan and george herbert walker bush in ending the cold war. msnbc s scott cohen joins us and martin bashir joins us from new york. tell us the difference between margaret thatcher s great britain, what she inherited and what you see now as you look at
staff level at this point. they have been talking as you know. mitch mcconnell, let s rewind a couple of days. the republican leader and the democratic leader saying look, he sort of reversed course. i don t want to negotiate directly with you anymore, majority leader, i want to talk with the president. the republicans pulled the plug on the grand bargain and congress said i got this. after a week of drama and calisthenics and frustration and anger that went along with it that we have been reporting, turns out they couldn t get it done. they turned to the white house, the president and vice president playing a key role and using the relationships he used to try to work something out. at this hour, they appear to have the framework of a deal in place. there was an encouraging sign last night about 10:00 when harry reid went to the floor of the senate and had they had that
the republican leader and the democratic leader saying look, he sort of reversed course. i don t want to negotiate directly with you anymore, majority leader, i want to talk with the president. the republicans pulled the plug on the grand bargain and congress said i got this. after a week of drama and calisthenics and frustration and anger that went along with it that we have been reporting, turns out they couldn t get it done. they turned to the white house, the president and vice president playing a key role and using the relationships he used to try to work something out. at this hour, they appear to have the framework of a deal in place. there was an encouraging sign last night about 10:00 when harry reid went to the floor of the senate and had they had that vote scheduled for 1 a.m. and postponed the vote and the reason why he postponed is they were making headway towards a