to norm s point about what you think democrats need to get done in this session before the republicans take over in the house. you nailed it. in the first two years we do the rescue plan, infrastructure, chips act, gun safety legislation. and right now i see three things that we have to do and provide the votes necessary if kevin mccarthy is big enough of a person to use us for that. and that is funding the government, extending the debt ceiling, paying americas bills, and keeping ukraine in the fight. you know that kevin mccarthy does not have 219 votes for any of those efforts. he knows that the way boehner and ryan, to rely on democratic votes, means a short stint as speaker. is he made of steel or is he going to tank the u.s. economy to allow the crazies, as stewart called them, to control the house? that s the big question. he ll have the votes on the
likes to be an underdog, he starts out today better than he did in 2015. and i think you re going to see all of these republicans just fall in line. congressman eric swalwell, to norm s point about what you think democrats need to get done in this session before the republicans take over in the house. you nailed it. in the first two years we do the rescue plan, infrastructure, chips act, gun safety legislation. and right now i see three things that we have to do and provide the votes necessary if kevin mccarthy is big enough of a person to use us for that. and that is funding the government, extending the debt ceiling, paying americas bills, and keeping ukraine in the fight. you know that kevin mccarthy does not have 219 votes for any of those efforts. he knows that the way boehner and ryan, to rely on democratic
of israeli people are saying maybe that s not a good idea. if he does lose what does that mean for the gop lawmakers that wrote the letter to iran in. it means they bet wrong. i think they felt like it would push him over the top and i think it was a way boehner and others wanted to poke the president in the eye. it looks like barack obama may get the last laugh on this one. . get some green on today. thank you. just ahead kanye west goes to college. kind of. we ll explain. so i tried to get her on video chat. i m on verizon. i. i m not. so it s not a problem. my video chat isn t working so i try to send photos but even that doesn t work. she saw the granite counters and the fire pit she went nuts. so i m trying really hard to describe it but words are not my thing. that was all it took. i mean what do you want, i m a realtor, not a poet. join us and save without settling on the largest most reliable network.
there was the movement of defunding the iraq war. there are differences between those two movements. but pelosi, she was able to shut that down in a way boehner could. even though she was on the personal side. that s what she wanted to see done. she and hoyer don t have a lot of great dynamic there. she has been able control her caucus. it s a different caucus she faces with health care. what do we know right now that we didn t foe last week? our answers are right after this.
sway boehner at all. we ve seen the stalemate because of that, and cantor and rooen are going to keep boehner on the right. people outside the process are saying this is the dumbest way to do business, to have a meat ax approach and have across the board cuts. yes, it does achieve some budget savings, but does it not in any kind of intelligent way of planning. which is why if you talk to the people on capitol hill, the people who are making these decisions, they say that down the road if there are huge economic damages i mean, we don t really know what s going to happen to the economy if the sequester stays in place. the theory is it s going to be pretty bad. congress could back fill some of those cuts april or may or down the road, could dump them a little bit more money to the pentagon and try to offset some of the damages. right now we really don t know, and there s really no one that has proposed anything that could pass both chambers at this point. jake sherman, thank you