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The other meeting at the southern white house as a superintendent of west point military academy, lieutenant general robert kaplan. kaplan served in a number of boards and is a bronze star recipient. the presidents first choice for vice admiral robert harwood turned on the position citing family reasons and general david petraeus was in consideration as a white house officials tell us he is no longer a finalist. meanwhile, the white house press secretary said more needs to be added to the list. ...

Been slow, they have been slow walking, the democrats. >> talk about your job. talk about what you are going to do. we decide we are going to took care flynn, thats your job. you dont scream and yell about what you have not done. >> thats a critical point. if it you come in and layout this is what were trying to do, yes, schumer we need you to get on the stick, thats works. >> narrow your attacks. >> right. >> i have never seen anything like this. you have to go on c-span to watch the whole thin...

Welcome back. if youre a red blooded american political junkie like me, youve got a healthy obsession with ranking stuff, american presidents and c-span. well, today i got my fix for all three. 91 presidential historians joined forces to rank our 43 presidents. trump not included. and of course grover cleveland has two numbers. in ten areas of leadership as part of a c-span survey that was published today. its a terrific survey. so whos first, whos worst, whos up and whos down? hone honest abe t...

Scratcher, top ten with vietnam in there? anyway, president obama debuts on the list at number 12. now to whos up and whos down historians are saying i like ike. he has jumped from ninth to fifth since the survey began. i think americas only independent president after washington i think people starting to view him that way. but the hits keep coming from andrew jackson after being bumped from the front of the $20 bill hes dropped five spots to number 18. and the bottom five presidents tyler at 3...

>> you have to buy flowers at the last minute or else they will wilt. brian: put your deposited down the week before and show your thought ahead of time. ainsley: bought them for his wife and daughter. >> c-span that we just saw with the caption while grocery shopping for our family husbandy seen @ v.p. hope my husband follows the vice presidents lead. the funny part here is that the vice president actually saw that tweet and responded saying dont ruin the surprise. share our 34th valentines day...

Control of health care decisions back in the hands of patients and focus on lowering costs. its exciting to see that weve listened to americans n were actually doing the hard work. this isnt going to be some bill written in the back room like speaker pelosi did become on the day before obamacare came to the flar where she literally wrote the bill in a room where nobody could read it and it was voted on by people who never read the bill. this is being workod by all our committees of jurisdiction ...

Conditions. the people who need help. our goal is to ensure that everyone has better access, better options. we want people to be empowered to make the best health care decisions for themselves. its important to all of us, for all of us, its personal. >> i want to start off by saying, happy valentines day to my wife jana. im sure shes watching this on c-span. look, our promise to repeal and replace obamacare is about two big things. first, it is about rescuing people from this collapsing law. wh...

People all across the country that have really good ideas about how to put the control of health care decisions back in the hands of patients and focus on lowering costs. its exciting to see that weve listened to americans and were actually doing the hard work. this isnt going to be some bill written in the back room like speaker pelosi did before she brought the bill to the floor and it was voted on by people who never wrote the bill. this is being worked on by all of our committees in jurisdic...

Control of healthcare decisions back in the hands of patients and focus on lowering costs. its exciting to see that weve listened to americans and were doing the hard work. this isnt going to be some bill written in the back room like speaker pelosi did on the day before obamacare came to the floor where she wrote the bill in a room where nobody could read it and voted on with people who had never read the bill. this bill is being worked on by all of our committees of jurisdiction in public view...

The people with preexisting conditions, the people that need help. our goal is to ensure that everyone has better access, better options. we want people to be empowered to make the best health care decisions for themselves. its important for all of us. for all of us its personal. >> i want to start off by saying happy valentines day to my wife, jana. im sure shes watching this on c-span. look, our promise to repeal and replace obamacare is about two big things. first, it is about rescuing people...