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Minute. next agenda item, the border wall. mexico does not appear to be paying for it. so there is a big budget item, $1.6 billion. where is capitol hill on this? >> the house is through. they got it done yesterday. republicans were able to insert it in the bill, not have to take a stand-alone vote on that issue and were able to get it through even though there were a couple republicans opposed to it. here is the issue, senate democrats made it clear they wont support anything that funds the bor...

Food and water projects. republicans have yet to agree on a budget to guide the appropriations process. southwest airlines is cutting its flights to cuba, joins other carriers during the same. president trump is ordering tighter restrictions on travel and business dealings with the island nation. pretty good and wall street. bounce back. dow jumped, s&p 500 up. nasdaq. reversal of fortunes from yesterday. how does this sound? a paycheck every month even if you do not have a job. its called unive...

Republicans have yet to agree on a budget to guide the appropriations process. southwest airlines is cutting its flights to cuba, joins other carriers during the same. president trump is ordering tighter restrictions on travel and business dealings with the island nation. pretty good and wall street. bounce back. dow jumped, s&p 500 up. nasdaq. reversal of fortunes from yesterday. how does this sound? a paycheck every month even if you do not have a job. its called universal basic income and its...

Have a discussion about a shut down. have discussion about omnibus bill the 1600 page monstrosity. thats not the way washington is supposed to work. the appropriations process. the power of the purse process we used to learn about in school that hasnt stungs functioned here for at least a decade. we need to get back to that so that the house and the senate pass 12 separate smaller funding bills that people can look and see and participate in in the creation of. we have moved away from that i thi...

>> i think the affordable care act its going to be largely whole. willie, you know, we have said all along, look, affordable care act is not a perfect piece of legislation that cannot be improved. we have a problem certainly in the individual market, which is about 6%. premiums are too high. there are other instances where there are not enough options available to people. we ought to be working in a constructive way, cooperative way like frankly were going to do today on appropriations process, ...

It could be symbolic in the hours, because its dead on arrival in the senate as usual. >> they have to pass a bill. they have made too many promises. theres no -- >> what about the idea that some supporters of people funded by the koch said to do this piece by piece by piece? >> i think that would be smarter. i think there are -- some things they could do through reconciliation, some things by executive order through tom price. other things that they can do legislatively through the appropriatio...

Republicans short. youre selling the rank and file leadership. let them speak their mind and let their voices be heard. ill close with this. the discussion about the 18 funding begins right now and we very much want to see the ordinary appropriations process function and anything we can do at the white house to encourage that to happen, we will do it. and we do not want to be here again. we dont want to be having a discussion about a shutdown. one of the things about changing washington and have...

This one. >> jon: its something he didnt have to deal with when he was head of the trump organization. he didnt have to deal with a congress overreeling or tinkering with his proposals. >> very true. this is the electoral process of find me a democratic process, find me a better opportunity around the world, a better system of government and lets go for that. but even though our system can be incredibly flawed, this is what works best. the american people, who voted for trump in these crucial sw...

Votes to get anything done anyway. it could be symbolic in the hours, because its dead on arrival in the senate as usual. >> they have to pass a bill. they have made too many promises. theres no -- >> what about the idea that some supporters of people funded by the koch said to do this piece by piece by piece? >> i think that would be smarter. i think there are -- some things they could do through reconciliation, some things by executive order through tom price. other things that they can do leg...

Ordered when it comes to fixing washington. watch this exchange. >> the president tweeted out this morning that looking ahead to fiscal year 18, a shut down may be just what is needed to clean up this budget mess. can you agree with that? >> a good discussion to happen in september. the president is frustrated that they made him look bad. i get that. >> so what the omb director was saying there, the presidents tweet was in reaction to the democrats trying to suggest they pulled a fast one on the...