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In the white house this morning? >> well, thats a good question, far be it for me to try to guess the state of mind anyone let alone the president. youre right. we know the president as his time of ceo really valued loyalty. this is a very different kind of workplace. the white house doesnt belong to him. he is literally a government worker living in public housing, and the constraints of that are tough to deal with for someone who is simply used to being in the private sector. i do think, thoug...

The resistance, the resistance against trump administration but you are pushing back on joining the administration with the fight against sanctuary city laws. is it your sense that as goes california will go the rest of the country? >> we have strong leadership in southern california against whats going on because were on the border. the rest of california, led by jerry brown and gavin newsome, theyre out of control with sanctuary city stuff. hopefully we continue to push back and the american p...

Pointed to a close race. what we saw this time were a lot of these forecasters taking the polls, putting them through thr special sauce, and coming up with an 85% chance. that wasnt the polls. nate silver at 538 doesnt poll. he takes the polls, puts them through his models, puts economic indicators in, wham-o, everybody thought hillary was on to a landslide. the surprise is we put a lot of faith in people, you know, we just didnt have from those forecasters a sense that how do we communicate unc...

You want to reduce violent crime, you have to get people out of the cradle to prison pipeline and get them into the cradle to college to career pipeline. if you make the investments early and get people on the right track, keep them on the right track you can reduce crime and save money. but it doesnt poll as well -- as the children defense fund calls it, the cradle to prison pipeline, you get people into that and it polls well but it doesnt make any sense. >> your colleague in congress, back wh...

Care act. you have a situation where more than 8 million people have actually enrolled in the law, where medicaid enrollment is up 15%, and where 3 million people are actually paying less than $100 per month. and yet it still doesnt poll very well. why do you suppose that the affordable care act in practice and in function is being so successful but is still sort of empirically despised by not a majority but a plurality of americans? >> well, you know -- and thank you very much for having me. it...

The story is to the american people that -- republicans are fighting republicans. thats not helpful. >> john mccain doesnt like that narrative. part of the story. the other story is republicans are fighting obama care as it rolls out, ezra. >> fascinating thing. republicans will get on the floor of the senate or house. and how obama care is polling in the low 40s. theyre at 17%. much more unpopular than obama care. if we are going to, if anything that doesnt poll gets repealed. theyre in trouble...

The story is to the american people that -- republicans are fighting republicans. thats not helpful. >> john mccain doesnt like that narrative. part of the story. the other story is republicans are fighting obama care as it rolls out, ezra. >> fascinating thing. republicans will get on the floor of the senate or house. and how obama care is polling in the low 40s. theyre at 17%. much more unpopular than obama care. if we are going to, if anything that doesnt poll gets repealed. theyre in trouble...

System. you guys are going to do that, reason you? thats what youre planning to do, isnt it? just what i just said? >> well, i think if you look at the budget, the ryan budget, it had fundamental entitlement reforms and i think it called for some tax reform and i think part of that entitlement reform includes means testing which means rich people couldnt get the benefits that they were used to getting. i think thats part of this. let me defend greg walden here for a second. his job is to elect r...

Means rich people couldnt get the benefits day were used to getting. i think thats part of this. let me defend greg walden here for a second. his job is to elect republicans. fact of the matter is this cpi proposal, even though i think its pretty modest, doesnt poll very well. the senior citizens dont want any changes to social security. >> sure. encouraged by the lobbying groups and .1 of 1%. >> polls very poorly. if democrats -- the problem here is democrats are going to run against republican...

Anybody with any money. were not going to reform the tax system so its a fairer system. you guys are going to do that, reason you? thats what youre planning to do, isnt it? just what i just said? >> well, i think if you look at the budget, the ryan budget, it had fundamental entitlement reforms and i think it called for some tax reform and i think part of that entitlement reform includes means testing which means rich people couldnt get the benefits that they were used to getting. i think thats ...