today inside politics, the gop finds votes to come out on top. republicans pass a crucial bill that assures the u.s. is ready to fight wars, and they did it after putting a deliberate conservative stamp on it. jared kushner under oath, new report ing reveals that prosecutors ask the former president s son-in-law, did donald trump believe his own election lies. and iowa decides in six months. the countdown to the caucuses is on as donald trump decides to play hooky and skip a big summit. his bet, who needs iowa when you have mike tyson. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, kevin mccarthy can keeps the republican family mostly together to win a culture war battle. last hour, the house did its job and cleared a must-pass defense bill. the final vote tally was 219-210. if that seems really tight for a bill that sets military policy, it is. the sennarrow margin is thanks a very heated back and forth over controversial add-ones to the
beginning of the recorded music era for $5. it was an i irresistible proposition. the new original series the 2010s premiers tomorrow might here on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th. i m amara walker. and i m victor black well. so pasta, the 6:00 hour we have been debating pasta. you love it. can can you believe that? i could take it or leave it really. the reason is because it s just a vehicle for the stuff that i think taste best. could eat the sauce with a spoon. it s the texture for me. and i love certain textures of pastas. it has to be perfect. if it s home made, i can eat it with no sauce. so your theory about being a vehicle for sauce is so wrong. we could split a dish. i ll take the sauce. you take the pasta. here s what we re watch ing for you this morning. i have to admit it s nice to be able to breathe one more time, but wit can t let our guard down. we still know it s coming. cities among the
They did not defund planned parenthood. They definitely dont want to build a border wall. But now almost ten months into the republican congress, Top Republicans on capitol hill have finally found an issue they can really rally around. Preserving President Obamas immigration policy. The Trump Administration has announced that next tuesday will decide the fate of daca, the Obama Era Program which apparently illegally gives work permits to Illegal Immigrants who arrived in the country as children. Killing that program would fulfill one of the term campaigns promise. It would also fit with the republican partys stated position against amnesty and in favor of enforcing the law rather than granting politicized immunity. Scrambling to preserve daca. This morning in a radio interview, Speaker Paul Ryan begged the president to keep the program in place until congress can pass a bill granting amnesty to the Illegal Immigrants daca covers. I actually dont think you should do that. I believe that
virginia until 2019, long of these papers were filed. i didn t know of her existence. i wish that i had because she was escaping from jeffrey epstein s clutches at the exact time i was trying to deal with him and write this profile. but i suspect that some version of the story i have just told you probably reach ed its way t her and that might be. your story is that p steen himself showed up in the office. you have also reported this very closely, so have you noted some factualer roars? there s wasn t about me. it describes me on a witness list for virginia. they say that we had knowledge of the sex trafficking by maxwell and epstein, i didn t know anything. i wish i had known more about the farmers. but there it is.
america. when we get away from what traditional america believes, traditional america will not play ball. we re going to drive a hard bargain on that. we can t control the senate or the house. what if the speaker does compromise? we ll hopefully preempt that. the caucus is not known for losing gracefully. we ll have to see how that p played out. reporter: that last comment came from adam smith, a top democrat on the house armed services committee. someone who authored the bipartisan bill out of the committee, voting against this plan here. he s optimistic that a deal can be reach ed with the senate tha would be more in line of what he supports, but it s unclear how that committee process will play out. we have learned that kevin mccarthy gave marjorie taylor greene, who is a hard right conservative, someone who planned to vote no, he gave her a spot on the conference committee. that was one of the concessions he made. it gives an indication of awl