Thank you so, right now you are looking at capitol hill. That is the peoples house, the place where you would expect the people that you elected to legislature actual priorities. Your number one is supposed to be there number one. Let me ask how many of you out there had is your top priority nancy pelosi getting kicked out of her office in the Capitol Building . Short of hands . Anyone . Anyone . I did not think so. But tonight, at cnn, how speaker, mccarthy, was behind the interim speaker, Patrick Mchenry cups move to pick former house speaker, nancy pelosi, out of her office space. It is things like this that drive voters crazy. You are telling me that within hours of throwing out a speaker with no clear succession plan, 44 days away from yet another manufactured check in, with concerns over the economy looming, the border, National Security, funding for ukraine, with all of that, that was the priority . This is what we call the disconnect. Shouldnt the First Priority be, well, to fu
You have a good night. I am laura coates, everyone. And listen, right now you are looking at capitol hill. Thats the home of the United States house of representatives, call the peoples house, the place where you would expect the people that you elected to legislate your actual priorities. You are number one is supposed to be their number one. Let me ask how many of you out there, at a party, as your top priority or even on your bingo card today, nancy pelosi getting kicked out of her office in the capital building. Anyone . Anyone . I did not think so. But tonight, sources tell cnn that the now former Speaker Mccarthy, who is behind the interim speaker Patrick Mchenrys move to kick former Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of office space. Its things like this that drive voters crazy. You are telling me that, within hours of throwing out the speaker, with no clear succession plan, 44 days away from yet another manufactured Government Shutdown with concerns over the economy looming, border, Nati
To explain everything, our north america correspondent anthony zurcherjoins us now from washington. was this a horrible shock to democrats, senator sinema saying she is going to be an independent? i think it did come to a surprise to democrats. they knew as you mentioned that pearson cinema had an independent streak, and if you look backin independent streak, and if you look back in her history, she started supporting ralph nader s independent presidential bid in 2000, she was a member of the green party for several years and she was sort of an independent when she made it to the senate, but they were not inspecting this, although i do not think it is going to change the dynamic because kyrsten sinema is going to continue to work with the democrats, she is going to hold her set of committee seats with the democrats. that will give the democrats still that operating majority in the us senate committee committee power that goes along with it and the other prerogatives they go along with
To explain everything, our north america correspondent anthony zurcherjoins us now from washington. was this a horrible shock to democrats, senator sinema saying she is going to be an independent? i think it did come to a surprise to democrats. they knew as you mentioned that pearson cinema had an independent streak, and if you look backin independent streak, and if you look back in her history, she started supporting ralph nader s independent presidential bid in 2000, she was a member of the green party for several years and she was sort of an independent when she made it to the senate, but they were not inspecting this, although i do not think it is going to change the dynamic because kyrsten sinema is going to continue to work with the democrats, she is going to hold her set of committee seats with the democrats. that will give the democrats still that operating majority in the us senate committee committee power that goes along with it and the other prerogatives they go along with
Starters on tax reform. that s right. this is not someone the president can cast aside. we saw that he was short republican votes for health care. yeah. they have an operating majority. they do. they control the senate. yet this president has not been able, in conjunction with the majority leader, to marshal members of his own party. attacking the former general seems to consider that going forward. this is a white house often tripped up by the president s tweets. there is great frustration there. there has not been more done on tax reforms. the hill is frustrated why the white house keeps getting their way on this. we have at least two significant foreign policy crises right now. the president is tweeting with the secretary of state in light of the nuclear threat posed by north korea as well as the imminent decision looming in iran over the nuclear pact