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we do leave the last few minutes of this, take you live now to the u.s. capitol. good afternoon, everyone. as you know, we had a lunch with the president. he did q&a with our members for about an hour. underscored the importance of accomplishing for the american people the first comprehensive tax reform in 31 years which we fully intend to accomplish in the next few days. the budget committee will be meeting at 2:30 to take a step that is required to move the process forward, and we re optimistic that step will be taken. i m going to have to run down to the white house for a meeting that i gather senator schumer and leader pelosi are not coming to, so i will not be here very long. but in order to allow for a couple of questions, i ll be happy to throw it open just for a minute, and then i m going to call on senator hatch if he s here right behind you. yeah. nancy? leader mcconnell, how do you address all of the concerns that some of these gop holdouts have s ....
reporters about why he decided not to attend the meeting at the white house with president trump will also hear from the senate democratic whip dick durbin. sen. schumer: good afternoon, i am proud to be joined by my colleagues here this afternoon. with just three and a half short weeks to go before christmas, that to do list in washington is long and complicated. deal toto reach increase in defense spending as well as programs which the middle class relies on for jobs. we need to write an appropriations bill, and we need to extend funding for community health standards. chi and protect dreamers. in order to get all of this done in the next few short weeks, all parties need to engage in good faith negotiations to reach an agreement. that is what we hoped would happen at today s white house meeting. unfortunately, the president had other ideas. twe this morning, the presidentet made sure that today s meeting was nothing but a photo op. these issues are far too serious fo ....
major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. collette. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world s most pressing problems skollfoundation.org. the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. sreenivasan: the republican senate candidate in alabama, roy moore, tried today to go on the offensive. five women say he sexually molested or pursued them when they were teenagers, and moore was a prosecutor, in ....
approved and after the budget assuming we have the support of all the republicans because we will have no support from the democrats or almost no support because they really become just obstructionests and have no good policies and frankly are not good politicians but are very good obstructionists and that is what they do well, obstruct. the number of nominees i have approved by the democrats are about half of what president obama had. when you look at that and you can look at judicial appointments and how slow that is going. i will have 145 ultimately which is a tremendous number. we will have 17 court of appeals appointments. they are not getting approved. they are being slow walked by schumer and the group of democrats that really it s really disgraceful. even people they know they will approve they take it right out to the end and use every single minute. i think it s a very disgraceful situation. obamacare is everything but dead. the people aren t going to take it. ....