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Through three of them, very slowly. we already know because we have been covering whats happening in some of those towns, that people have come out to -- much like what you witnessed, it sounds like, when half the crowd had on his name as well. >> with the head of the train, stopped and all three of those towns. asking people questions. at least a third of them will show you two letters that they have gotten from george bush over the years. >> harris: ed is laughing as youre saying this! >> trus...

Teamsters. they traditionally have been on, been a union that endorsed both republicans and democrats. there is a whole time where they endorsed nixon. as ed knows, they endorsed reagan both times and george herbert walker bush. but look, it is a three-for. they get to push back on hillary clinton for her keystone pipeline announcement. they get to meet trump, by the way a lot of their members will be attracted, and are attracted to, some of the ones i have talked to. third they can sit back to ...

Nuclear option. this is one of those rattlers that you see all over the nations capitol and curious to hear doug and ed to talk about the state of play in washington and what it might do to relations with both houses and the president.

About this. what are your thoughts, ed, with the historic nuclear option in >> it is a big deal. republicans considering to it in the majority and frustrated when the democratic majority had stalled. and what this means, 60 vote super majority. you need a simple majority to get most executive and federal judential and does not apply to supreme court nominations. and what it means for the president. it may be easier for him to get his administration up and running. there are dozens of nominations...

Scones and work man like president and talk honestly about the difficulties of implementing it. >> doug, what should the president do to salvage the affordable care act. >> exactly what bill suggested was a good step. called congressional leadership in and say we have to do a fix. republicans are going to run a straight negative campaign. thats not what american people want. as ed knows, they have a higher negative rating. the president has to rebot. bottom line, when i got to the white house in...

Exercises watching this show, and they say that. >> oh, yeah, looking good. >> you guys could do me a favor and look me more powerful than i actually am. actually, thats hard to do. but if you could just put out a press release saying we support chain cpi. >> before the fiscal cliff, you say harry took chain cpi off the table. but mitch mcconnell was quoted as saying its okay to take chain cpi off the table. i would have held in there on the fiscal cliff and not kicked the can down the road agai...

Part of the world, the business community, where they do that as a specialty. its called cost cutting. its equity. cost cutting, laying off people, getting rid of management-level people, middle-level people, cutting down the costs so you make a bigger profit level, then flipping the business. thats what romney did for a live, all these years. its how he made $250,000. why would you bring a guy whos an expert at jobless recoveries and jobless politics and jobless economics, bring them in and mak...

Who are the people that could help the president the most, you think? >> i want to see ed sue somebody. i think that would be -- i think number one, particularly is debbie wasserman schultz, the new dnc chairwoman. there was an internal debate inside the white house, had valerie jarrett and some other female folks in addition to some men in the white house like david plouffe who supported her, shes going to be very important with working women. as ed knows, the suburbs of philadelphia, white ind...