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She will join me live coming up tonight. it stick around for that. but first, the big story in washington this evening, democrats moving the goal post on impeachment is clear that this investigation no longer revolves fully around the president s request to investigate bill by then. instead, democrats on the house intel committee are now phoning in on a new word which you heard it here last night and the word is extortion. speak out we have a crime, extortion, to essentially extort the president the new president of the ukraine. the president was attempting to extort that ukrainian government. martha: chief political examiner and a fox news contributor, byron, good to see you here tonight. the piece you wrote about this field a lot of our conversation where we read him passages of the transcript where he was clearly being pushed in certain ....
Billions of dollars to our deficit. and now he stands up at the last minute after 15 years of blood, sweat, and tears from the 9/11 community to say that it s all over now, now we re going to balance the budget on the backs of the 9/11 first responder community. we want to be very clear. the bill to renew the 9/11 compensation fund is far from dead. senator majority leader mitch mcconnell has fast tracked a full vote on the funding. but in a few minutes we are going to hear from senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand after the minority leader announced an agreement moment ago to vote on a bill by next wednesday that will include amendments by senators paul and lee. so we will be watching. that wraps things up for this hour. i m chris jansen in new york. scores, scores of 9/11 first responders have died since 9/11 from complications related to the heart. there should be a red line when it comes to 9/11 ....
melissa: all right, joining me now is a guy, fox news contributor, former bill clinton bowl server, thank you again for joining us, we saw those guys get out, saying we can t find this, they are sort of laying their markers down, though they are going to need something, not unexpected, for what you think? can they get there? i would be very surprised, melissa, if there is a successful vote on this bill by next week. i think that there is a long period of change that is going to have to take place because there are people in the center and on the right who are unhappy with elements of the bill, and the idea that you re going to fix all of those concerns get them all address or any span of one week? and then have a vote on something that senators are just now starting to read? to me, the timeline just doesn t make any sense. look, i think speaker ryan is completely correct that obamacare is falling apart, it is a failure of a law, but this ....
The public isn t enthusiastic about the idea. efforts are under way to come up with something soon. athena jones joins us from the white house. is there enough support to pass a bill by next week. reporter: that s the question. this obamacare repeal is something the white house very much wants to get done. despite the talk about moving on to tax reform or another issue after the failure of the last push, it s clear repealing and replacing this law is a priority. it s something the president hasn t stopped talking about, something he wants to get done soon and he sounded optimistic about the prospects of that happening during the press conference today with the italian prime minister. watch. the plan gets better and better and better and it s gotten really really good and a lot of people are liking it a lot. we have a good chance of getting it soon. i d like to say next week, but i believe we will get it. ....