25 million dollars. your conclusion seems to get an agreement from robert ray former white water counsel who was on with us last hour. listen. can talk about dangling threads in all they want about other things that are out there of course there s always something out there. the principle mandate here in order to determine whether crimes were comutted in connection with the real with the election campaign and potential collusion with the russian ares has now reached its finishing point. it sounds like you re in agreement that it ought to be end of this? absolutely. now, the concept of double jeopardy doesn t strictly apply here because it is not a trial but bask american principle in fairness they already went after trump for two years on collusion. and again you can t attack the integrity of bob mummer or investigation and if he does find that there was no collusion, or no more indictment, you need to move on
come up to into law, but they don t need the president to buy in on the first step of the negotiations. and, in fact, this bill that coons and mccain are introducing today, already thhas a companio bill in the house that has 27 republican co-csponsors. chris coons talked about this, this morning. this bill we re introducing today, that senator mccain and i are introducing in the senate, already has a plblock of republican co-sponsors. i expect in order for this to be embraced by republicans as the solution that ll get us moving forward towards fully funding domestic and defense spending, we ll need to add border funding to it. so again, a starting point, not a finishing point. the president doesn t have to buy in on the starting point, just where they get to with this, if indeed they can t reach a larger compromise. i d love to see what
repair the affordable care act. it is a starting point, not a finishing point. it is a beginning, not an end. but how do people vote blind faith on a starting point? you don t have a cbo score. well, it is a process. look, we know it is going to pass out of the house at some point in time and go to the senate, come back to the house and the senate. there are opportunities to change it, amend it, fix it, get it better. but if the process just stalls, nothing gets done. i m a big believer we have to follow a process. i want to see it get out of the house. it has a lot of good provisions. it s not the most perfect bill, but nothing is going to be perfect. let s move it forward. let s get it to the senate. let s let the senate change some things which they are going to do. before we finish and vote for the bill, the final bill will have all the information. help me understand though, why not make it better now? if you re talking to your kids, you d say, put your very best foot forwar