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Down, another demonstration that there is a sheriff in town. >> bret: it is a serious topic. i didnt mean to make light of it. jobs numbers, 98,000 in march, really low numbers as far as what they were hoping for. talking about weather and all kinds of things. but back when it was president obama, republicans made fun of that excuse about whether on jobs. this is disappointing. >> especially since the acumen as a businessman and sort of what he ran on, and the people that voted for him are in gr...

Question. the jan brewer criticism is about as damming as it gets. thats somebody who went to the wall, went to the mat for donald trump, supporting him throughout his campaign. for her to say in such specific detail what a negative impact this would have on her state, its tough to argue against bre. the next 36 hours is a test on what donald trump went on the campaign that he can turn his business acumen and ability to get a good deal into government acumen. the reason hes in this position, in ...

Different choices. >> some kids with single payers, though, have healthier people for longer. >> you need a salesman to sell that idea. donald trump could potentially be that salesman, its not democrats that are holding it up. it is republican voters and people who lined up for him that i think are the biggest obstacles. >> so if donald trump had like the ability to truly transcend another president in this respect, i think donald trump has shown that his political acan you men, his skill -- acu...

And was impossible, at least, very, very tough to get into the united states. if you are muslim, you could come in, but if youre christian, it was almost impossible. i thought it was very, very unfair. so we are going to help them. >> the extreme vetting, which trump said was to keep "radical islamic terrorists" of the united states, it will focus on seven countries, iraq, iran, syria, libya, somalia. no specific provision, bret, is made for saudi arabia, egypt, and lebanon, where most of the 9/...

And was impossible, at least, very, very tough to get into the united states. if you are muslim, you could come in, but if youre christian, it was almost impossible. i thought it was very, very unfair. so we are going to help them. >> the extreme vetting, which trump said was to keep "radical islamic terrorists" of the united states, it will focus on seven countries, iraq, iran, syria, libya, somalia. no specific provision, bret, is made for saudi arabia, egypt, and lebanon, where most of the 9/...

Freeze and other actions he is very concerned about how tax payer money is spent whether its sent overseas, in terms of the relationship or our democracy or aid to other defenses but hes going to examine at all aspects of the budget because i think theres a newfound respect for how the taxpaye taxpayers dollars are spent and as a businessman and scrutiny to bring projects under time, hes bringing that acumen to the white house. i dont want to go any further to say hes going to make sure that eve...

Mollie, your thoughts? >> we had a different policy with cuba because it is a place you are not free to emigrate from, and acumen population is one that assimilates here well and is a successful group. president obama wanted to send a message, that cuba, as part of his normalization process, is not as bad as we thought in the past, although im not sure why he wants to do that. the big challenge is that we havent gotten a lot from this normalization agreement. even this policy change, we didnt ge...

Mollie, your thoughts? >> we had a different policy with cuba because it is a place you are not free to emigrate from, and acumen population is one that assimilates here well and is a successful group. president obama wanted to send a message, that cuba, as part of his normalization process, is not as bad as we thought in the past, although im not sure why he wants to do that. the big challenge is that we havent gotten a lot from this normalization agreement. even this policy change, we didnt ge...

From 2009 to 2011. okay. norm, as you know, ive relied on you for the legal acumen in this area before. how do you see what the president-elect laid out yesterday. >> thanks, chris. and before the president-elect announced his plans, so no one would excuse us of moving the goal posts, my republican counterpart, professor painter, the bush ethics czar and americas most constitutional lawyer laid out a five point scorecard to grade the president-elects plan. how did he do? he got an f in all five ...

To the two-state solution will do to u.s. policy in the middle east. joining us now to discuss is former ambassador, u.s. ambassador to israel and former u.s. special envoy for israeli-palestinian negotiations martin indyk. good to see you, sir. >> good morning. >> so there are three basic points of pushback. the first is the experience of friedman. not known to have any diplomatic experience. he is a bankruptcy attorney who helped trump with his bankruptcies in atlantic city. his legal acumen a...