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Because rates have ticked up. and if they go up even more, that will be a challenge for people who want to buy. >> is that why -- feels like housing supply is still a real problem. just people who want to go buy a house, there arent a lot out there. >> thats right. and the supply and demand is central to housing. and so when supply is tight and then demand is high, that is what were seeing right now. people want to be able to buy things, but the prices have ticked up. and then supply has shrunk....

Of urgency. we need to now get to work, and pass this legislation. >> just quickly here, congresswoman, it seems like human infrastructure is now around 2 trillion, thats nonnegotiable for you? >> you know, when i look at it, there is a couple of things in that piece of legislation that we desperately need that is something is nonnegotiable is the state and local tax deduction cap, we have a huge affordability problem in new jersey and that is just another hit that unfair double taxation for our...

Same, more jerry brown big government, more taxes and a crushing affordability problem. we cant continue down that road. we are going to get a lot of change in 2018. >> bret: esther cox, we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> bret: when we come back, his prime minister and entry-level job in italy? apparently so. feel the clarity of non-drowsy

To play in regard to housing. what is your worry? >> well, first, let me preface this by saying its still a bull market on wall street and housing is remarkably strong. thats likely to continue at least through the first half of this year. but we have a problem in that median family home prices have soared over 52% the past six years. thats raising an affordability problem, at the same time were seeing a number of excesses that are carrying those concerned -- parallel concerns that we saw in 200...

Exchanges and the individual mandate was a republican idea that came out of a heritage foundation. it was hardly democratic idea we had to actually persuade the democrats it was a good way of doing it. its always ironic that the republicans ran away from it the moment the democrats said all right, lets try your ideas. the second thing i would say is one of the ways i think donald trump could actually do better than obama if he was serious about it is this cost control and drug regulation pricing...

Get together across state lines? >> people are already grouped through their jobs, so i say lets start with the associations we have. if you want to form new ones, thats good. the insurance that work are better than the individual market, else lets start where we are. >> melissa: we are still talking about the price of health care policies and that doesnt say anything about the cost of actually repeating the care. i dont know that that solves the problem. how do you do with the affordability pro...

People off, now remember, if they in fact modified a little bit, the estimates are that they will still throw 17 or 18 million people off, and most of those people are hard-working americans. >> bill: and no, it is not throwing people off. >> it is. >> bill: i will make my point and allow you to go again. we dont know who the 17 million or 22 million are, these are the young people who dont want to buy the insurance in the first place. >> we cant -- we can to leave that with your false assertion...

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surprise. you certainly hear republicans call for that, but it wouldnt do anything in the short-term. this is way too big an oil market. as you know, the bulk of what makes up the price of gas is the price of oil. >> and its all a lot of tradeoffs, too. certainly you dont want a depression so you can have $2.50 gas. >> right. >> i want to look at this. gallop polls can find the price at which consumers significantly change their behavior is $5.35. richard, no economic statistic more im...

Do, too. >> lets take another one. sarika, its a little more general, this comment, you cant -- this is in response to my request for fixes for the education system, for the college and university problem. she said, you cant just fix the whole education system. you have to look at the whole socioeconomic picture. thats kind of the point you were making in the last segment when we spoke, this is not just -- its not a new problem. its not just a state college and university problem. >> yeah, the b...