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That might give bad news to the public that doesnt support their position. on the other hand, there are other acronyms to go with cbo, and they include aarp, which is against the plan, and aha, the american hospitals association, against the plan, and they didnt wait for the score. they are the people who are the system. they are within the system and they know the impact this is going to have on patients and hospitals and retirees, and thats who they are going to have to fight against. the cbo ...

Especially penalizing their parents in a financial way. so those two things alone could galvanize african-american interests, which has been diminished and eroded under the apparent assault of the trump administration against people of color, against women, against immigrants and others. on the other hand, what we find out here is that president trump doesnt know what cbc stands for. you asked mr. levell that and he didnt get a chance to answer. let me say of course the president of the united s...

Why didnt he know -- you had to repeat cbc. do you think he knew what it was or having trouble hearing you? >> again hes new. i wondered if it was the newness of being in washington but i will say this, he is president, hes new and maybe he didnt hear, maybe he did. hes new. give him that. hes got to learn these acronyms but congressional black caucus is cbc, congressional hispanic caucus is chc. give him the fact maybe he didnt know because new to town. >> nia? >> in some ways its right. thing ...

Its just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, its not just raw data. its a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the major daily product of the intelligence community for the presidents -- for them to be wrong about that stuff is worrying on its face but theres a larger point to this. their explanation for why the president doesnt need this dail...

We talked to david priess, a pdb expert, he wrote a book on the presidential daily brief, he used to write personally the component articles that went inside the presidential daily brief. he told us "the presidents daily brief does not consist solely of raw data. primarily the pdb offers the president the intelligence communitys experts assessment of various foreign developments. a president may choose to have raw intelligence reports including in his pdb package but the core articles in the pdb...

Be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the major daily product of the intelligence community for the presidents -- for them to be wrong about that stuff is worrying on its face but theres a larger point to this. their explanation for why the president doesnt need this daily intelligence briefing is because its just raw data, nothing he can really use and besides hes got this guy and this is e guy who makes sense of the intelligence world for the president. this general mike...

It which was a high coupon was packaged together into securities and sold around the world. is that not correct? >> thats true. they had all different types of acronyms. load docs, subprime. they just should have been called bad loans. thats what they were. >> and your indymac as i remember and i recall tried everything it could to recalibrate those loans, restructure those loans and renegotiate those loans to keep as many as possible from not going into foreclosure. >> thats true. not only for ...

Administration. and second, if you have time, what do you think of the acronym, dts, will it catch on the way "drain the swamp" has? >> i would like to see a corporate tax cut. right now these high corporate taxes are keeping money outside of america. if we cut the rate, well bring it back, the companies will spend the money. i would not like to see this 5% tariff thats being leaked about. that would really harm american exporters and american consumers. and dts, drain the swamp, i think the las...

An audience, hes good at what he does. the trumpists will be there. how far will they constrained paul ryan doing the kind of deals he would be willing to do with hillary clinton. they could restrain him quite a bit. >> what were those two terms you gave us. >> a choice between snafu and fubar. you come up with lots of world war ii acronyms. the infantry came up with situation normal all fd up and airmen came up with fd up beyond all recognition. thats the choice america faces. >> thank you. we ...

And others that they are an abomination as far as true islamic. >> well explained. thanks. well get into more acronyms. lets go over to the pentagon and jim miklaszewski. so, jim, andrea reports that on the list of things to try to get from the united states when president hollande of frons c e france comes to the white house next week is forward air controllers, explain the job, the position and how that would make the campaign against isis better. >> reporter: brian, u.s. special operations fo...