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Of effort that would bypass the congress in terms of efforts to recap and release? >> i dont want to make any commitments to legislative or not. what i will commit because its my responsibility in treasury, you know, as it relates to certain issues with fannie and freddie. what i will commit to is it is my objective to find a bipartisan solution to it, and i would welcome the opportunity. >> and your hope would be the bipartisan consensus that the banking committee in particular arrived at was t...

>> i agree with that 100% and let me also just thank you for meet with me and acknowledge as an incredibly successful businessperson, i appreciate your service here. >> i dont want that to eat into my time. >> sorry. >> there are -- i have been very troubled by even some folks in elective office who have somehow said we can ignore the debt ceiling without consequences. there are even some that are going out and saying, somehow we could prioritize those debt obligations and potentially pay off bo...

Armed -- >> if i asked you a question, you probably wouldnt talk to me about the need to defend grizzly bears. >> depends on where you live. >> in most places. a little bit of an odd answer. the quite of what matt said, ethical law standard. that is a little bit of an oxymoron. what the law insists on and what your ethics suggest are two very different standards. investing in health insurance companies when youre passing laws about health insurance companies doesnt smell good. thats not the stan...

State senate. i found the state senate in georgia to be often remarkably bipartisan and that collegial relationships were the normal. this is the environment in which i have learned to legislate, reaching across the aisle to get work done. in congress, ive been fortunate as well to be part of collaborations that broke through party lines to solve problems. just this past congress it was a bipartisan effort that succeeded in ridding medicare of a broken physician payment system and which has now ...

President-elect trump and republicans in congress have promised to deliver a plan that prevents anyone from losing coverage and leaves no one worse off. just days ago, president-elect trump said his plan would provide insurance for everybody. do you share those goals? >> i think its absolutely imperative that we have a system in place that has patients at the center and allows for every single american to have opportunity -- >> so you share his goal of insurance for everybody? >> thats always be...

Instead. president-elect trump and republicans in congress have promised to deliver a plan that prevents anyone from losing coverage and leaves no one worse off. just days ago, president-elect trump said his plan would provide insurance for everybody. do you share those goals? >> i think its absolutely imperative that we make -- have a system in place that has patients at the center and allows for every single american to have the opportunity to gain access to coverage they want. >> you share hi...

Getting elected. its serves who is serving the folks on the ground and helping them. its a powerful thing and legacy he will leave. ainsley: what about the weaknesses? what could very done better. >> the president has been very forth right while he has delivered on many of his commitments brings us together hasnt been one of them and faith has been central to that story. whether it was the narrative of the war on religion in 2012, whether it was failing to live up to his promise at the universit...

Contenti contention, chaos, consternation, and i think that that is, you know, the cause of seeing these depressed numbers. >> the -- our new poll also shows that a lot of americans are skeptical that he can actually keep some of his major commitments to the american people. will trump defeat isis? 42% said likely. 57% said not likely. only 44% believe he will build a wall along the border with mexico. 55% not likely. just 29% say he will get mexico to reimburse the united states for the cost. 7...

It is clearly designed to send russia a message that united states is to stay in europe and the united states is part of nato, and given mr. trumps pronouncements and the things that have gone on, not only this morning but also, you know, throughout the entire election campaign, we have to call into question exactly what all of the commitments are and whether those commitments mean anything and that means everybody in europe extremely nervous. >> so what mr. trump said to the international press...

National identity and national security like taiwan, i think rather than get compliance, youre going to get a combative, testy china that will push back. so again, carol, i wish i could be authoritative on exactly what mr. trump is thinking and how, in fact, hes actually going to conduct foreign policy once he becomes president. i think thats simply impossible. weve never quite seen a president-elect like this, questioning the assumptions on which there are fundamental principle ts of american p...