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Tacos and hot dogs and all that on airplanes. >> all right. coming up were going to tell you -- >> its ok. i was able to floss in my seat. >> you were able to floss? i learned more about you in the last 10 seconds than i knew. your butt is numb and you floss. all right, thanks very much, brian. well be back in touch with you in a minute. here are some of the headlines. amtrak already $1.34 billion in the red. but thats not stopping the government-owned agency from fast tracking a plan to spend m...

Mid lant tick into central and southern plains all from the frontal boundary that brought relief from the heat wave. heather and patti anne. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> this is stories you can bank on this morning. $151 billion plan from amtrak to build super high speed trains. where are they going to get the money to do this? thats the question. he here with an answer is lauren simonetti. >> how does this sound geting from new york to philadelphia in 37 minutes or boston in an hou...

Which they will not normally do. we need the government out of it. >> tracey what you do. >> it is removing the government program . getting them. christian is right here. >> and incent vising. let them flip all of the power get in and get out and back on the markets for regular consumer. >> wayne and christian are right. if you canny sell it. government insures it by fan yefreddie. they have spent 151 billion. it makes more government exposure. >> 42,000 loans, guys. christian dorsey, thank you...

People to act in a manner in which they will not normally do. we need the government out of it. >> tracey what you do. >> it is removing the government program . getting them. christian is right here. >> and incent vising. let them flip all of the power get in and get out and back on the markets for regular consumer. >> wayne and christian are right. if you canny sell it. government insures it by fan yefreddie. they have spent 151 billion. it makes more government exposure. >> 42,000 loans, guys...

If you get caught at a christmas party most -- hosted by fannie and freddie. >> wait, they cant have christmas parties. they bought the real estate culture down. >> theyve been spending something like $640,000 to send 100 employees to a chicago conference about mortgages this past fall and theres a congressman, a republican from the great state of texas who said are you kidding me? thats really, really lavish. we got a breakdown on all the dough they spent and it is a lot and given the fact that...

>> keep in mind, while we know that fannie and freddie have cost us a boatload of dough, something like $151 billion since the mortgage collapse, keep in mind, fannie and freddie right now have a $5 trillion portfolio of mortgages. so they got to manage those. plus theres about a trillion dollars worth of new business every year. thats one of the reasons why the ceos were on capitol hill yesterday saying look, if were going to have quality people, we have to pay them a lot. >> these are challeng...

Yes. yes. did president bush 41, president obama and president bush say the same thing? yes. this president is already getting results from europe. push the rest of the way. make the alliance stronger but dont blow it up. ainsley: there are 29 countries in the alliance. he said they wants us to pay the most to defend them. but, they are making it so difficult for us to do business in europe. we have lost $151 billion. that was last year alone on trade thats a great point. is he linking them both...

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I think that getting along with russia and join and others is a good thing. >> so you see there, poppy, he held back from calling vladimir putin, someone who headed in the united states elections, a foe and you can see he mirrored that with the combat i laive languag used when he was asked about nato. >> nato has not treated us fairly but well work something out. were being taken advantage of by the european union. we lost $151 billion last year on trade and on top of that we spend at least 70% ...

Serbia. we put much more troops in there than we ever put in afghanistan. for 3.3 million people. when it comes to afghanistan, thanks for helping, but you put 10,000 western troops for a country of 30 million. and that is a lot to do with the reason why we are there 17 years later. maybe we could ask for more of a contribution and maybe they did that behind the scenes. steve: one of the other things that donald trump has been pressing significantly on in the last couple of months is trade. and ...