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Many presidents, once they get there, they believe that whatever theyve been has clearly worked in life because theyre the president of the united states. so thats why its so important to get the right person on the front end because its very rare for presidents to change in the maelstrom of power. >> thank you for joining us, john. sorry for the technical problem there. >> thanks. >> the last thing we do before we go tonight is take a look at the week ahead. on monday the white house is slighte...

The federal reserve will leave the fed and the new team actually will be the least experienced probably in decades so the next meeting the first time under might be a bit more exciting than what we saw here on wednesday all right now all eyes only is wrong the state of the union address it was the fed longest in history question as to animate the markets open for them. grows grows grows jobs jobs jobs that was one of the key messages from the u.s. president and overall wall street likes what its...

Sticker it was dangerous what he said last night. what he is doing brings tears to the eyes of the statue of liberty and instills fear in the hearts of people who are concerned about our dreamers. >> president trump: its time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. >> president trump hopes to build support for an infrastructure program. >> president trump: every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments and where appropriate tapping into private sector in...

I think that will have strong bipartisan support. his announcement that the infrastructure program, not all government money. this is donald trump the entrepreneur. they have some ideas for how you enlist a lot of different sources of revenue to get 1.5 trillion. thats a big enough program that even the democrats began to sit up and take notice. >> sean: how would a private- private-public partnership on infrastructure work? >> one way would be to have companies put up money and actually take ov...

Jobs recently? weve gotten to a low unemployment rate? >> well, hes taken credit for trends that have been going on for a long time. and unfortunately thats just the way it works. you get credit or blame for whatever happens on your watch, and obama had a lot of really bad luck and trump is having an awful lot of good luck. at least so far. but there is a lot of shoes still left to drop, the feds tightening, wages are starting to rise which puts upward pressure on prices. the deficit is blowing ...

Administration, there were more jobs being created each year than under the first year of donald trump. but nonetheless, donald trump deserved credit for what he has done on the economy. especially the stock market. its just that why does he stoop down to get into an argument like that? he just got -- presidents normally have much, much bigger things on their mind. and he ought to be thinking about how do i get this infrastructure program done? how do i make sure we dont have a war with north ko...

Know of roads that need to be fixed. there are 60,000 structurally deficient bridges in america today. 50, 60 year old transit systems all over america needs new cars and infrastructure. the problem for congress has always been, how do we pay for it? look, public/private partnerships, fine. we did a lot of public/private partnerships when i was at dot in obamas first administration. you need to do more. you need a big pot of money. you need to create other pots of money. in order for congress to...

To the president to get his agenda den? >> i think hes privately still appalled by the way president trump conducts himself. he did come out and ding him on this latest immigration controversy. but it is a different situation where youre trying to stop someone in a primary and then hes elected president of the united states. hes not going to stop being president instantly, because mitt romney criticizes him. so i think hell have more running room than other republicans representing really red st...

Simultaneously will benefit the reform and healthcare system. >> well it will and when you look at infrastructure and you look at the broadband expansion and you look at increasing those opportunities in rural and under served areas, then youre talking about access to more quality healthcare for more americans and utilizing some of those next generation concepts. trish: let me jump in and ask you about what were going to do right now about the increasing debt loads that we all have 20 trillion a...

Do 787 billion-dollar infrastructure program but the problem is a very, very small percentage of that actually went to roads, bridges and infrastructure. so its not an easy equation, especially when you have to get to 60 votes in the senate. lisa: congressman, what if democrats dont join republicans. #resistance that they have been doubling down on. not joining republicans with tax reform. democrats are pointing to wins in virginia and alabama as signs they have momentum in 2018. are you concern...