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Involved in every decision and every opinion that had his name on it, and every opinion that came through the court. whether he was the author or not, meaning even if it was an opinion assigned to another justice, he wanted to make sure that it was right. mark: i want to turn to something thats just occurred and thats this budget process and appropriation process in the united states congress. jim jordan has said that the congressman from ohio, and freedom caucus member, that they had 17 hours b...

Dysfunctional a process were utilizing to make sure that government runs. and, of course, im not for shutting down government. but coming up with a 2,000 page bill that were expected to vote on in the senate, and, first of all, has to come out of the house, is a nutty way to proceed. im hopeful that the joint select committee on budget and appropriations on which i sit will perhaps be able to come up with a process that will stick so that we can have a budgeting and appropriation process that do...

Clasping hands. and nobodys going to look at it. nobodys going to reform the spending. as a consequence wasteful spending is riddled throughout your government. only four times in four years have we done the appropriation process the way were supposed to. recently they did a pentagon study. they audited a part of the pentagon. this partial audit shows that $800 million was misplaced or lost. just 800 million. i dont think they actually put it in a closet and burned it. but they cant find it. a w...

>> would you say washington is not flexible? >> now you know why there is blame sort of being put on all sides and why all sides see some political value in this, because they have those clips that they can use. they can take it to their base and say, this is what the other side is doing to you to shut down the government, and theyre using that as leverage to score some political points. one other thing is that republicans in the senate are unhappy with the idea of another cr. theyve been passin...

Mcconnell uses the so-called nuclear option saying look if we are going through the appropriation process we only have to get to 50. that decision will be on his shoulders. democrats want to spend money you have to cut somewhere folks. you cant keep spending $4.2 trillion in 2018. todd: one salary appears to be off the books appears to be andrew mccabe starting in 2018. new report out the fbi says trup russian collusion. my question for you this 17 months after relearned dossier. why would you b...

Surveillance and the proposed eight-year authorization. a number of which said thats not such a good idea, given some of the outrages weve seen of late, fbi and other. lets trim that in. so i think you have intention between long-term authorizations that authorize a program for a long time and a yearly appropriation process that causes this congress to look under the hood at whats working and whats not working. think, like chip, its important to look under the hood, because some states do a good...

So the pain is real, but its also a deflection tactic because were not taking about niger. were talking about why this sergeant johnson was left behind for two full days. who actually, you know, found him and brought him back to the united states? were not talking about the fact that donald trump was golfing, thats why hes kaug the family. hes not even there to greet the family. so all of these diversion tactics, to say nothing else about his systemic failure after failure legislatively, but als...

Deferments for the heel spurs and never serveled his country. we have a 50-year record of him not serving anyone else so the pain is real. but its also a deflection tactic because we are not talking about niger. we are not talking about this sergeant johnson was left behind for full two days and who found him and brought him back to the united states? we are not talking about the fact that donald trump was gofling. thats why hes calling the family and not there to greet the family. all of the di...

But its also a deflection tactic because we are not talking about niger. we are not talking about this sergeant johnson was left behind for full two days and who found him and brought him back to the united states? we are not talking about the fact that donald trump was golfing. thats why hes calling the family and not there to greet the family. all of the diversion tactics to say nothing else about the systemic failure after failure legislatively and the lies every single day and we have to mak...

Universe that are looking weaker dodgy for the president. >> katon dawson, $14.5 billion already requested and the white house is call that a downpayment. weve seen the spectacle on cable news of a lot of republicans who thought hurricane sandy aid was a boo boonedoggle, it shouldnt be allocated without pay fors. what do you mean pay fors? we want the money. isnt david frum right? this is an opportunity for republicans to take all the money and use it for politics? >> im from south carolina that...