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Agenda and it continues notwithstanding whats happening in the daily news cycle with respect to the president and a special prosecutor. spill in the house and senate investigations, the intelligence committees are going to continue their investigations on what went on vis-a-vis michael flynn and the russian contacts. >> they are. the senate intelligence many is well underway. they were working on this for several months as is the house. that continues, but it will be relegated. in the congress, ...

Worried, senator, that it aint happening this year, that its getting pushed back, unlikely? >> i still believe we need to do it this year. i hope we find the votes to do that. the president will have to get very engaged, neil. if this pushes to 2018, its harder. im confident moving forward that we can deal with tax reform before the end of the year. i certainly think in terms of the economy could do a lot to get us out of this 1.5% growth pattern. >> neil: were you surprised by mitch mcconnells ...

That would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the labor force, population changes, and pretty slow productivity gains. but we are seeing improvements in wages. the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so, in terms of the recovery, from the crisis, things look pretty good, generally speaking. and id have to say, if you told me three, four years ago that wed be where we are today, i would have been pretty happy to hear it. >> so what do you make of, th...

That would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the labor force, population changes, and pretty slow productivity gains. but we are seeing improvements in wages. the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so, in terms of the recovery, from the crisis, things look pretty good, generally speaking. and id have to say, if you told me three, four years ago that wed be where we are today, i would have been pretty happy to hear it. >> so what do you make of, th...

Were down to 4.5% of unemployment. 16 million jobs created since 2009. inflation is low in stable, gas prices low, stock markets up. a lot of things are positive, growth could be faster that would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the economic force. we are seeing improvements in wages, the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so in terms of the recovery from the crises things are looked pretty good generally speaking. id have to say that if you tol...

I think all of those things can get us from the stagnant growth weve been seeing to a growth pattern thats realistic to get us to almost 4.5% growth. >> let me move on to foreign policy policy. this is an area where your skeptics say your not up to the job in terms of your knowledge, your leadership. ill start with the question of the day that everyone is asking. that is the iraq war. if you knew what you know today, would you have gone in to iraq the way president bush did? >> just one thing, a...

It would be a huge boom to the economy. one of the questions, in terms of a better growth pattern, whether we can get out of the deficit conversation. one smart thing republicans have done here is enforcing it to be an endless series of self-endeuced crises. theres no other agenda. it sucks up all of washington. >> thats the problem with the three month extension. the republicans blinking and suggesting i want to fight this debt ceiling on this debt ceiling front, which would be good. they are g...

Dispersed and as you can see there, the new president has been sworn in. lets bring in telmundos jose to talk more about this. how much of this is with the revolutionary party? >> well was in power for 72 years until the year 2000 when they lost their election there. 12 years later they go back in power but this is a new face. hes 46 years old and married to a soap opera star and hes young, energetic and hes sharp and hes media friendly. i think a lot of the people are really upset about the pos...

Come gradually warned the global economic watchdog so as not to derail the already weak recovery. the group predicts the economy will grow a bit next year but at a slower rate than originally thought. we are really in a very slow growth pattern. they are projecting 2% next year compared with 2.6% which was the forecast from a few months ago. that kind of gross does not get you up off the map in consecutive quarters. republicans have made it clear, that they are willing to compromise on their end...

Very beginning, how do we define disaster. that was a disaster. the president needed to make available greater access to food. >> what was going on isnt over. >> this election is going to solve it. we are going to elect somebody and we will move forward, move backward, lean forward or get crossed. >> this is something thats been going on for a quarter century. a lot of us are framed by what we remember the economy was in the last couple of decades. i think that is history. we are not there. we h...