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World, looking inward or outward a coren stone to what the republican party used to be about, is the idea of open trade. its benefited our nation and economy. we need a conversation about the institution, the framework of government. i think at times the president is challenging and finally again, going back to the tone we were mentioning, we need to have a conversation about humility and tone in the office which i think this president misses. >> you have talked about tone some over the last few...

Limits, it makes it easier for congress to come to an agreement about budget issues, it reduces the likelihoods of the budget show down that could shut down the government. in that sense, it is good news for people who dont want to be affected by government shut down. >> lets switch gears and talk about afghanistan. we are having u.s. officials telling us. the end of the u.s. war in afghanistan is 80 or 90% there. how significant could this be for the presidents reelection chances? >> if hes abl...

Addressed and the reality is mexico has ratcheted up its own deportations, its cracked down on caravans and mexico has their hands full with thousands living in border cities as they wait to hear about their u.s. asylum claims. theres no question mexico can do more, but the question is -- they should do more but can they? ive shown you the conditions. kids and families are living, i mean, just look at this. come on. those conditions have only gotten worse. tariffs dont address that. on top of th...

Hands full with thousands living in border cities as they wait to hear about their u.s. asylum claims. theres no question mexico can do more, but the question is -- they should do more but can they? ive shown you the conditions. kids and families are living, i mean, just look at this. come on. those conditions have only gotten worse. tariffs dont address that. on top of the tariffs that the president is planning, theres more harshness. hes cutting legal aid, resource classes for these same kids,...

Defining the trump presidency. but what is not closed and should not be closed is an examination of what trump is doing as president. and i keep saying there is a governing crisis. and i have five top things i think we really need to look at. relations with china. whats the policy? how has that gone down with north korea, with saudi arabia, all the budget issues and the tax issues and the immigration if that is really whats going to have a direct impact on peoples lives. and if were going to sit...

The floor of the house and address significant budget issues for our country. meanwhile, as our debt rises, $22 trillion plus those are the issues that im focussed on. im not obsessed on what the president is tweeting minute by minute. >> they are official statements from the white house. on the issue of budget, let me ask you this, because you are chairman of the rsc budget. you wrote, i had the opportunity to thank the president for his fiscally conservative leadership. here is the thing. unde...

White house press briefing. only one briefing in the last 80 or so days and so theres just a whole pile of questions for the white house press secretary to answer from the russia investigation to immigration to these budget issues. russ will be answering some of those. at some point, the white house press secretary will come forward and presumably answer some of our questions that have been lingering for some time. its something that we use d to do a whole lot in this broefing room. its somethin...

To. >> they had a very good proposal roughly ten years ago to straighten out all these budget issues, unfortunately, theyre no longer out there talking about it. >> no, theyre not. when you look at this budget, it tells you the priorities of the president. listen, there is increase in chald care. theyre going to spend more money in child care, which is super important. across the board, when you look at this, what do you believe the spirit is about? sflits about us and them. the us is the presid...

Machine? >> it makes no sense. thats plain and simple. the whole thing doesnt make sense. i hope the people in our country are getting it, this is a president who doesnt think through a lot of things and he harmed so many people not to mention our economy with the unnecessary shutdown. now were keeping the government running which should be the normal sate of affairs. with this president nothing is normal. >> do you view the senates activity today and what the house will send as a positive, so t...

Came up with. heres the view from the other side of the aisle. chuck schumer. >> over the past few months weve been lurching from one manufacturing crisis to another. it would be wonderful for this congress to settle budget issues for the rest of the year and for the country to finally move past. hopefully, hopefully thats what this agreement will portend. if youre turning 65, youre probably learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesnt cover everything - o...