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He never answers those kinds of questions. he just say, were going to get em. theyre going to tell on each other. and that kind of exhortation is compelling to some kind of voters that feel disenchanted and its working for trump. >> ed, let me get you to answer quickly. he was asked about preying on the fear of americans, and making americans afraid of boast mexiconess and muslims. and he said, no, mine is a message of hope. whats your reaction to that statement? >> well, its a dual message. the...

An hour. not hillary clintons position. i voted against the war in iraq. hillary clinton voted for it. >> so thats very ambitious agenda you just outlined there. you said this week that the biggest mistake president obama made was thinking he could negotiate with speaker boehner and the republican leader mitch mcconnell. how can you get this very ambitious agenda through, which includes, you didnt mention, an estate tax on those who inherit more than $3.5 million. a trillion dollars spent on inf...

Background. questions of was there something in either family he didnt want to emerge? were just left with all of these questions. hes going to be buried this week as he should be and honored as a governor who served three terms in the state and gave a lot back in terms of what people wanted to hear. theres nothing left in new york thats named after him. theres no education program. theres no highway program. theres no parks program. theres no infrastructure program. no reformation of the penal ...

Booming energy. pick any metric that you want, americas resurgence is real. >> now is this americas resurgence, governor? >> oh, theres no question. the most telling statistic in the first clip you showed in the president is that we have put more people back to work since the 2008 recession than all of the other countries of the world combined. think about that. thats stunning. this is an american resurgence. and if the president had gotten the things he asked for in his jobs bill, like an infra...

Sure those bridges dont collapse below the truckers. >> thats a heck of a point. because the president has been talking about infrastructure for a long time. has gotten no help from the republicans at all. in fact, hes mocked quite often when he talks about infrastructure investment. and its ironic that these truckers are going to be the first disrupters coming to washington. theyre the ones that are driving on the lousy bridges that the republicans dont want to fix! >> well, theres some 16,000 ...

The presidents speech, i think, thematically was a big speech. it had a lot of very good ideas and pinpointed the problem. what hes criticized for, it wasnt prescriptive enough on solutions. the white house would say theyve had plans in the hopper that nobody has acted on, the counter criticism, congressman ellisson, the white house has not been active enough legislatively. what is your take? have they been up there really in peoples face and pushing for their infrastructure program? theyll say ...

Between now and november. >> hes repeatedly proposed the kind of infrastructure program youre talking about and hasnt gotten takers. >> im on your team. im only saying give me something concrete so when im out and others are out saying this is what we want, weve laid out -- >> it seems to me thats exactly what hes done. hes said here are the pilars hee we need to get this economy moving. i dont agree with either of you on the keystone pipeline as a job creator. but what im saying is that when yo...

Then we have something concrete, im a democrat, to campaign on between now and november. >> hes repeatedly proposed the kind of infrastructure program youre talking about and hasnt gotten takers. >> im on your team. im only saying give me something concrete so when im out and others are out saying this is what we want, weve laid out -- >> it seems to me thats exactly what hes done. hes said here are the pilars hee we need to get this economy moving. i dont agree with either of you on the keyston...

Government for the last four years. >> what policies do you say f l failed? >> in my judgment, okay, we should have had a major infrastructure program that would have at least as we did in the early part of the 20th century when we had the railroads that became a national transportation structure or the highway system, okay, that is interstate highway system. both of those, we had something to show for the money we spent, and secondly, you know, we had a dramatic difference in what that did to t...

Government for the last four years. >> what policies do you say failed? >> in my judgment, okay, we should have had a major infrastructure program that would have at least as we did in the early part of the 20th century when we had the railroads that became a national transportation structure or the highway system, okay, that is the interstate highway system, both of those we had something to show for the money we spent and secondly, we had a dramatic difference in what that did to the gdp growt...