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While for minorities and for everyone, actually. todd: do your fellow young people, 18 years old, thats what you are. do your fellow young people get that? >> they really dont. they havent been out in the working world long enough, i think. and they havent -- they dont have as many connections. i think people that are parents and the working field can really see that. todd: handna, thank you. patty, patty worked in law enforcement on the budget side, which is interesting. so you are a numbers pe...

The trump presidency. it is more and more concentrated on the views and belief of the base of the party, the house republicans. you know, the mattis decision today and the apparent decision to shut down the government over the border wall, i mean, they are part of the same governing philosophy which is the president doesnt reach out to his politicaled a ver sta ed aa. he doesnt compromise. and he goes with the views of what -- of the people who he feels are his closest supporters. i mean, he is ...

Estimated 70% of us gdp. as long as people have spending power and the optimism to do so, thats going to keep the american economy going. if trade policy leads to higher prices, that could be the real tipping point for the u.s. economy. >> we know business, while a large segment, is up. i want to go back to trade and trade deficits. i argue the president does not understand the difference between a trade deficit and a budget deficit. but seconds ago, the president tweeted, we do have a trade def...

Frustrated right now it got to this point. and frankly, don, it keeps getting to this point even when they feel like they. >> even they waited until the last minnesota. everyone thought this is happening. this was not expected, right. >> no it wasnt. if you went into this morning everything people paid attention to was in the house. that was the question. where are the house democrats going to be? keep in mind, speaker ryan are very concerned about the extent of the spending. $300 billion on the...

5th daca deadline is no longer a real deadline. >> march 5th. >> march 5th, im sorry. a federal judge has also said thats not a deadline. we have time to work this out. i think a really, really good offer is on the table. i think thats something we should be working on. >> so most of this was -- >> -- sadly standing on her high heels at her age as opposed to the real issues facing americans every day. >> i dont know if she was wearing high heels or not. >> thats all the media accounts ive seen, ...

So, you know, i do think legally its probably a long shot, but you know, the question of who -- where this money came from and why is certainly one that i would imagine would be of interest to voters and the public. whether its a crime, its hard for me to say. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> counselor -- >> we got through a lot there. so this morning the government is open, so now what? >> the president just wrote the last hour, nobody knows for sure that the republicans and democr...

Why the government cant find any other way than to take the money out of their pockets. why not take it out of some of the bureaucracy in washington and drain the swamp and save some money that way? >> these are two separate processes, so under the senate rules, you are capped at $1.5 trillion over the ten years before the taxes, you can deal with the other stuff on the budget side in a separate bill, and you know that the republicans will do that. the president introduced a budget blue pen that...

Realized they can save some money on this bill is if they try to repeal the individual or the employer mandates for obama care. that saves them a couple hundred billion dollars. very attractive on the pay for side of this. but, boy, talk about a political landmine putting health care policy in the middle of this tax bill. i asked lindsey graham about that a second ago, too. listen. does that make it a lot more complicated if you introject health care policy into this, as well. >> both of them ar...

I think those are good things and when they focus on the budget side, thats probably a good thing. >> cherry picking? you decide yourself. more now what led up to the gop decision to punt for the time being on replacing obamacare. phil mattingly joins us now. do you have any sense how far away they are from getting the votes they need? >> reporter: very far, to put it plainly. within an hour of senator mcconnell telling his conference that they would be waiting until after july fourth to vote on...

Statement for public release. >> i can tell you that leadership from the state department, d.o.d., dni, the cia, as well as members of the administration within this building were part of that process from the very beginning, and fully aware. >> can you give us a time line from the very beginning, was that a yesterday -- >> im not going to walk through the detailed process of a time line on how that was released for intelligence purposes. >> and on health care, you just said you accept or find v...