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We have heard it from the president, from the vice president and secretary mattis so i think that just underlines the importance of making sure that we move and proceed with defense spending. we have started, 3.8% real increase in 2016 is a significant step but is only one step in the right direction. we need much more. we need both to spend more but we also need to spend better. so the focus of the alliance, defense minister and in our cooperation with the european is how can we increase effici...

President, we heard it from the vice president, and from secretary mattis at the defense meeting. that underlines the importance of making sure that we move, that we succeed in increasing defense spending across europe and canada. and the good thing is that we started 3.8% real increase in 2016 is a significant step, but there is only one step in the right direction. we need much more. let me also add that we need both to spend more but we also need to spend better. so the focus of the alliance,...

I think it would be part of it because conservatives are for it. >> look. this is one of the challenges of capitalism. i do sort of agree that there are jobs that will happen that we cannot foresee. but we are already seeing with factories and with automation that a lot of people are going to be put out of business because we are successful as a society. because we are creating technology that creates efficiency. we should be investing in new jobs and investing -- >> tom: what does that mean? yo...

Not only patchwork on our roads, but patchwork on our infrastructure. we dont need anymore band-aids this problem. this is an opportunity for us to not only fix our infrastructure and create levels of efficiency by doing infrastructure as well as water and utilities, at the same time, but also, putting middle-class people back to work. we want to have that partnership with the administration and congress, and we think if we dont, that for trillion dollar cost, obviously youre seeing it today wit...

Fund infrastructure investment. the people who should be taking leadership roles on this, you find out that the problem is just too enormous for them to get their arms around and to focus on. so it gets passed on to the next level of congressmen and presidents. >> abby: thats really sad. you look at some of these stats that our research department dug up on this, it shows the average age for example, 600,000 plus of our bridges, 42 years old. youve seen this firsthand in what you do. what concer...

Thinks about the efficiency of the staff? >> i think he pays attention to this stuff, but he is also a guy who survived and thrived in the general election to be president of the united states even though his negatives were extremely bad. im not sure thats his most important metric. the other thing i would say is the ability of this white house and some of the knives out means that we should be really kashs about who is leaking what and why and so some of the stories i want to be very critical o...

A clear an present danger to our nation. they have fueled addiction and overdose deaths and can no longer be allowed to operate in our country or hemisphere. this pulls together the resources and federal agencies to work toward upgrading information about the organizations and cartels. without accurate information about these threats and willingness to share this -- if you had called the department of justice for the statistics they never kept them. number two, improving the speed and efficiency...

And present danger to our nation. they bring dangerous criminals, drugs, and violence to once peaceful neighborhoods. both here at home and in other parts of the world. they have fueled addiction and overdose deaths, and they can no longer be allowed to operate with impunity in our country or our hemisphere. this order pulls together the experience and resources of the agency to work toward emphasizing specific goals in this regard. number one, to upgrade our information gathering about these tr...

Danger to our nation. they bring dangerous criminals, drugs and violence to once peaceful neighborhoods. both here at home and in other parts of the world. they fueled addiction and overdose deaths and they can no longer be allowed to operate with immunity in our country or our hemisphere. it pulls together local and federal agencies to exercise goals in this regard. number one, upgrade our information gathering about these transnational organizations and cartels. without accurate information ab...

The ocean then living on them and calling it a country. >> in a free market such as a seastead, people would have much more incentive to keep themselves healthy and fit and eat right and prevent chronic disease. offer a great opportunity not just for the people who live on the seasteads to good efficient care of high quality but also for people who come in specifically for that purpose. in terms of efficiency, and affordability of health care, it was much greater a century ago. >> so shouldnt we...