Job is potentially on the line. Kevin mccarthy does not have the votes. If there ends up being a shutdown, republicans would largely be to blame. Sit down with our team, the jeffries, and negotiate a way forward. Today President Biden set to join autoworkers on the picket line against the Big Three Automakers. This is what the president wanted to do to stand, to stand with autoworkers. We invite you to join us in our fight. Surge at the border, shelters fearing they may soon be overwhelmed by migrants. More than 100,000 in what we saw crossing all of last year. You leave them on the street, provide shelter. Leaving them on the street is not an option for us. A defiant senator bob menendez flatly denying he did anything wrong. Not only will i be exonerated, i still will be the new jersey Senior Senator. You want to claim selective prosecution, you have to prove that. If youre indicted, you should resign. It wont help us to have him hanging around. Good morning, everyone. Top of the hour
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benefit democrats either as they are trying to show they are the party in charge here. they have the majorities in both houses plus the white house and this is still happening. are you suggesting this is this is a sabotage strategy just make the democrats look more dysfunctional? is that a republican strategy out there? i m not sure it s the strategy of the full party. because you talk to republicans and they agree that politically for them there is no appetite on this either. they would rather make the messaging points about inflation and about the economy. but at the same time if this is one of the unintended consequences of it or for the small minority here that are forcing this shutdown issue that it s an intended consequence, sure, all the better. but, again this all leads to this is the last vest ij of 2021 politically that people have in the mouth as you turn to 2022. it s our broken incentive structure system. the way the propagandaist media works on the right. the ince
into a shutdown issue. it s for us to come up with an agreement and the president to be cooperative in that process. i had some hopes last wednesday with all the opening statements, everybody touching the gloves that we were heading in that direction. now the president seems to want to torpedo the process. congressman, mia has a question for you, as well. sure. congressman, good morning .my question is about how the discussions are happening around emergency powers of the president. one of his big threats is i ll just go ahead and do it and i will claim emergency powers in order to do it. will that prompt litigation? yes, absolutely. you have, that may be his chosen way out of this. and i m not sure what kind of
schumer and nancy pelosi and the front they put on the shutdown issue. your sense of where it goes from here. i think in particular, in the house, in democrats, they re feeling themselves i mean, they re feeling, one, that they ve had a victory, a very clear victory with the public on their side, and with shifting sentiments towards the president. but also, too, that they have an agenda, right? they said this once the new term began, they were going to go full steam ahead and push and push really hard and that s what we re going to see. all right, mark mckinnon has put the stenson open road on his kick it up. time to go. thanks for joining us catch the season premiere of the circus tomorrow night, sunday, 8:00 p.m. eastern time. tomorrow, i ll be joined on set. up next, the man who wrote the art of the deal will explain how donald trump failed so miserably in his first real encounter with house speaker nancy pelosi