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majorities and avoid the shellacking he experienced in 2010. i will speak to michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell about the battle for the house and cheri beasley on whether democrats can pull off a surprise in a traditionally red state. jon meacham will join me. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we have breaking news from california where nancy pelosi s husband, 82-year-old paul pill pelosi was attacked with a hammer. he is recovering at the hospital. we are expecting a press conference late they are hour. we will bring that to you live. joining us from san francisco is nbc s jake ward and nbc news terrorist analyst jim kavanaugh. jim is a retired aft special agent in charge and hostage negotiator. first, jake, this is a violent assault with a hammer against the 82-year-old husband of the speaker in line for the succession, of course. what other details do we know? reporter: we know at this point that at 2:27 a.m., the house you see behin ....
Between defense and nondefense. congress would crack down on partnership taxation and crack downs on waste and fraud. and raise the debt ceiling by 1.5 trillion and enough to keep the government running until march 2017. speaker boehner said he was trying to clean up the budget mess for paul ryan who did not seem to appreciate the hand. i made the clear i was leaving and i would do the best to clean the barn. and i didn t want him to walk into the barn. and this process stinks. this is not the way to do the people s business. and under new management we ll not do people s business this way. we are up against a dead line and that is unfortunate. ....