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Call them top down numbers. democrats and republicans can sit down and do our work within the next two weeks. we can do our work and finish the appropriations process. daca and certainly the childrens health insurance program have to be part of that process. the republicans know it. lets do it now rather than later and lets get our work done and do it in a bipartisan way. >> that are means compromise and we know the president laid out some of his priorities when it comes to immigration, when it ...

Have to do it. get rid of the fraud, get rid of the waste and abuse but save it. people have been paying in for years and now many of these candidates want to cut it. im not going to cut social security like every other republican and im not going to cut medicare or medicaid. >> are you with the president? >> i want to see the safety net strengthened. john podes i dont want to walk back into anybody that has medicare, medicaid or social security and say no you no longer qualify. thats not the in...

From the whole world. arthel: congressman franks, is this going to get done by christmas? >> i think it is. you know, im stupidly optimistic at times, but i really believe this has a chance. im concerned that afterward we might think that weve solved all the problems and in the senate rules on the appropriations process are going to become very difficult to deal with after that. arthel: and we have to leave it there. thank you for your time. >> all right. thank you very much. happy thanksgiving....

Deliver on our campaign promises from jobs ks which they are doing a great job with, and less regulation. peace through strength. and yet they do have to get this tax cut done. i dont know that they may come back on health care. you have have other issues out there in the appropriations process which they need to finish up by christmas. so i think that they are going to it be a little bit more disciplined. but also they need to rebuild their relationship with the white house. its not in anybodys...

Youre doing. so heres the balance. im never going to participate in an exercise where an authorization to use military force is a micromanagement of the commander in chiefs responsibilities by the congress. i will insist as the war expands and as the rules change to be more aggressive that congress is informed more often in more detail so we can exercise our constitutional authority whether or not we want to authorize this operation through the appropriations process. >> senator graham, is that ...

Constitutional authority of whether or not we want to authorize this operation through the appropriations process. >> senator lindsey graham addressing the need for oversight committees. before that, secretary mattis briefed senate armed services committee chairman john mccain on what we know and presumably all the things we still dont know about the ambush in niger. there are still gaps in the story and the white house refuses to fill them in until the story is complete. mattis visit is the cul...

Informed more often and more detailed so we can exercise our constitutional authority of whether or not we want to authorize this operation through the appropriations process. >> does that mean more briefings for armed service committee members or does that mean -- >> so theres going to be an amf debate come out of this. because some people are going to say, wait a minute. you can designate anybody you want to designate and heres the answer. congress is not set up to be military commanders. 535 ...

Could help do something peeling back the dodd-frank regulations joining me is the chairman of house committee on financial services jeb hensarling of texas thanks for joining us. >> well thanks for the invitation. >> maria: would you like to see a rollback of dodd-frank attached to any tax plan? >> oh, id like to see it attached to any bill across congress so fundamental tax reform is so critical to our economy but so is regulatory reform and our speaker paul ryan has called the financial choice...

That senator may have concerns with. and they will have to be addressed individually if we want senator collins back on the bill. senator murkowski will have to take a look at what it actually does for the folks in alaska. senator mccain has made the point that he doesnt like the process. i understand that. but you know, every single year, it seems like -- at least as an example -- as example, the appropriations process has been broken, nonetheless we still fund or defense and the non-defense di...

Has turned on public sentiment? you think on repeal and replace overall? do you think just fixing what we have? fixing obamacare would be the better and more effective approach? >> well, since the 2012 election when president obama was reelected, this law had four near years to bake in. and so in other words, you really cant unplant the tree. so i think really the best approach right now is there are always parts of this law that parts need to be repealed, parts need to be replaced, and parts ne...