even if this bill doesn t pass it s important to send a political message to the new acting attorney general and to the president that they won t stand for any interference in the probe. we ve seen challenges to matt whitaker, questions about whether he should recuse or whether his appointment is constitution. all of those are imperfect. there s a political check on the president in normal circumstances. no president would dream of skipping over the usual line of succession to put in an acting general who is clearly biased against the investigation. that s why it s critical to see this bill move to send a signal to doj that no one on the hill will stand for it. unfortunately, republicans don t seem to be there. we ll be talking about it with our next guest in a second. matt, glenn, thank you for coming on with this intricate, detailed and important story. thank you very much. democrats are back on capitol hill with a pep in their
in on policy, related issues policy-related issues. but today was an exception. her office tells us ms. trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform. she believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs with heart. now some are pointing to her statement as a criticism of her husband, but we should note that the president used almost that exact same language when he was asked about this policy on friday. jon? garrett tenney at the white house, thank you. the immigration debate will be front and center tuesday when president trump heads to capitol hill to meet with house republicans. this as lawmakers wrestle with pair of new immigration bills. the author of the more conservative of the two, house judiciary chairman saying his bill would open up a number of new opportunities. we also as you know in that bill move from a terrible v
just that? as the ryan bill and goodlatte bill move through the house, the democrats should offer that and any other amendment that they have that they think will be productive. again, the president offered why not vote on that specific issue since everyone agrees t abhorrent? let me ask you a question. if you do that answer the question, jack will you solve this problem? and i think if you can say, yeah, you take care of everything, i think the bill would sail through the house. see the concern is trite that you still have a major problem with porous borders and what are you going to do about it? see. the last say here jack just admitted that the president and republicans are taking this children these children hostage as a pure negotiating tool to get through the rest of their draconian proposals. here s the bottom line you guys were in charge for eight you were in charge
legislative process works, you will go to conference and try to reconcile those differences and produce a conference report that goes back to the house and senate. before the final bill harris: i don t want to cut you off but i know you have to go. state and local taxes have been a big one for high tax states like california and new york and several others as well. that s a big difference between the house and senate version. what do you think happens in the middle? i think what you will see on the senate floor, i think our bill is going to be debated and amended in the next few hours here. i think there could be some changes to it. you will see our bill move in the direction this has been a big priority for senator collins. in the house bill in that particular issue. those are issues we can merge between the house and the senat senate. as it heads to conference, may
election year. that is something that i think the speaker of the house will carry with him moving forward for, hopefully for him, positive energy in 2016. now, the united states senate, this bill, tamron, it s moving forward. they already broke the filibuster. they should be done about noon, 1:00. i actually saw the house clerk take the bill over from the house to the senate. i ve never seen a bill move that quickly. the jet fumes of the christmas holiday are really starting to percola percolate in congress. they want to get out of here and they are not going to fight this anymore. all right. thank you very much, luke. we ll keep an eye on that vote, thank you. controversial drug company ceo martin shkreli is home today, out on bail after posting $5 million to go back home. he s still been charged with security and wire fraud. federal officials allege that shkreli ran that ponzi scheme, shuffling money from one firm to pay off investors to another. the 32-year-old millionaire first