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An attack on the core functions of government. i get if youre a conservative and youre saying, i dont know, government shouldnt be mandating whats taught in classrooms, or government is too intrusive in our economic life, thats standard conservatism. when youre going after what a core function of government is, which is public safety, right, a core constitutional function, then youre talking about a very different kind of republican party and what youre saying is exactly right. this plays into t...

Roads. the alternative iseo polls. the federal government is only willing to put about $200 billion into this $1.5 trillion infrastructure programs of the question is wheres the rest of the money going to come from? what the states have been doing is selling roads to the private sector and put on whopping tolls. >> tucker: why do we have government, is it to run diversity seminars and retirement for federal employees? its to defend the borders, to keep the t visigoths at bay into pay for roads. ...

Im saying thats where we get the money from. >> tucker: can we start at the beginning, paving the roads is not a core function but the core function of going back to rome of the government. now theyre telling us theyre going to sell it to a private equity group who is going to shaft you or make rural america pay more. >> its as old as the country, towns and villages couldnt put the road up they would have a small syndicates of farmers and artisans who would pay for the roads because they wanted ...

>> tucker: can we start at the beginning which is to pave the roads is not just a core function, its the core function going back to rome of a government to another telling us, we either sell it to some private equity group is going to shaft you or we have to make rural america pay more. when we get these choices? >> back in the early days of the republic, the towns and villages couldnt put roads up, so they would have small syndicates of farmers and artisans who would pay for the roads because ...

Environmental policy, in immigration policy. i mean, this is where the executive gets a lot of blow back from people who say accurately you cant win it legislatively, use what power you have thats unchecked to try to chip away at it. i think theres no question. thats what the president is trying to do here, as jeffrey says, when he has to chance to name his own director, he will name somebody that will walk in and say i dont want the core function of this agency to prevail. i think to take this ...

Even was talking about it. the president, albeit belatedly, is going there. does that show he is responsive to criticism ? >> well, there is no question. this is an area like we discussed yesterday when he was giving good marks. you know, any politician has to understand that your response to a natural disaster is your bread and butter as a politician. it is is your core function, governments core function is to protect its people. i remember back to hurricane katrina. there were a lot of factor...

People have to remember this is the poor function of government, to look after people, take care of people who have no other place to go, not even to their local government or the state government. they have to be able to rely on the federal government when something is this large. i think its a huge opportunity for a president who claims to want to dig in on details around infrastructure, to understand core function as president is to lead a federal effort to respond to disasters. >> so what do...

Critical of the congressional budget office back in march during the house process. so my question is, does the president believe that his discussions with lawmakers about what they want and their concern about the legislation, should it be guided by the cbo score and will it influence his thinking as he looks at the bill? >> i think one of the points that i made last time, alexis, which stands, is that the cbo core function is budgetary and fiscal impacts and not on people and theyve been wildl...

Integrity commission headed by chris coback who none other single handedly has had an anti-voting rights agenda trying to make voting exclusive and inaccessible. courts found his actions to be unlawful. he is now heading up an effort that is widely seen as a way to legitimize mass voter suppression around the country in the months and years ahead. you know, similarly, "the washington post" last monday knit together a story of the cuts that are being made to federal civil rights offices across al...

Dollars are not going to fund discrimination ain federally funded programs. thats what this agency is going to do and we cant stand for it. >> and are you concerned that the agencies, morale of the people who are doing this work in these agencies, you know, how will they even continue to do the work that they, you know, signed on to do and not create pay. >> absolutely. i think that the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enforcing laws. its a law enforcement job that ...