indictments in our four intelligence agency assessments. let s talk about those specific dimtindictments. the russians are accused of showing with democratic e-mails that bernie sanders was cheated out of a primary election by the dnc to the extent that they may have been involved in leaking it, that s what they showed was that there was a corrupt thing going on. you saw one of the indictments had to do with state electoral processes. of which nobody has claimed they changed a single vote, right? but that shouldn t be the gauge, should it? the idea that somebody can t change a vote doesn t mean that it s okay to otherwise attempt to influence our elections as an outside body. that is against the law. i don t think russia is going to follow our laws any more than we re going to follow russia s laws when we re spying on them. it s possibly true that they ve tried to meddle but what is absolutely true is they didn t change a single vote in this election.
are. to people s whose lives are literally hanging in limbo, who are wondering about what their status is in this country, who are in this sort of excruciating position right now, we should say the president of the united states put them in and which the republican party is sort of voting to defend in its own way, when they say to you we wanted more. we want you d to fight harder for us. we feel let down and betrayed by this, what do you say to that? what i say is we have a vote. we re going have that vote. hopefully we ll come up with a deal before february 8th. in fact, this afternoon a group of senators, both democrats and republicans came together again with discussions on concrete ways in which we can move this legislation forward. so we re going to make that happen. and we re going have that vote. and i think that s where we need to channel our energies now there is a lot of energy here. channel it towards that open debate process. if that vote doesn t happen, will you have
when they say to you we wanted more. we want you d to fight harder for us. we feel let down and betrayed by this, what do you say to that? what i say is we have a vote. we re going have that vote. hopefully we ll come up with a deal before february 8th. in fact, this afternoon a group of senators, both democrats and republicans came together again with discussions on concrete ways in which we can move this legislation forward. so we re going to make that happen. and we re going have that vote. and i think that s where we need to channel our energies now there is a lot of energy here. channel it towards that open debate process. if that vote doesn t happen, will you have failed? if it doesn t happen, we re going to be extremely disappointed. but we are going to fight at that point that mitch mcconnell made a commitment to the american people when he was on the floor of the u.s. senate. we ve got to do it. and that is broader. it s not just daca. we have to have votes and positions
or the uranium enrichments that make it a valuable place for various countries there. we re going to be spending a lot more time talking about those things. but i don t think this is just a problem of the way trump communication. this is a problem of everybody making everything about donald trump. we ve been there for a long time, we will thereby for a long time. it s a country that is an ideal partner for the u.s. bret: i want to turn to capitol hill, we ll get a vote on a budget, expected to go through some time tonight. republicans feel they have the votes, sets the table for tax reform. biggest question is this healthcare stop gap measure. lamar alexander on, he feels confident. the vote doesn t just set the table for the tax reform, it s a must-ask. with it they can pass tax reform with 51 votes, mike pence with the 51. we have a fight over healthcare which is really interesting. you remember the deal that chuck and nancy cut with donald trump
absolutely i know it s a need to find about this they have said that there will be absolutely no vote on the after monday they won t be willing to dialogue with that particular capitalism and that s the regional president and his deputy so if the vote doesn t. well this is the big a million dollar question phil no one knows really what s going to happen everybody is so focused here on october the first on what s going to happen on october the first and. i mean there are so many or no news about this will people be able to go and vote what is the reaction of the spanish government going to be on sunday what s the reaction of the capital and regional government on monday or on tuesday one of the spanish government going to say i m like i just mentioned there the spanish government has said that they will not dialogue with the regional president or his deputy now that sounds very negative but also if you look i know a little bit closely it s also suggesting that the spanish regional gover