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>> well its just going to -- were going to have to see what is going to fly with republicans on capitol hill. theyre not doing any bills with democrats, theyre not taking into view the minority voices on these decisions so its going to be a question of what priorities conservatives have. theyre in the drivers seat. they wont let the president and the leadership do infrastructure because theyve spent too much money. >> but theres an optics problem, right? with cutting into snap and medicare or me...

Coca-cola on the side. >> shepard: well have to check with the russians. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> shepard: and were going to tamara keith from the npr. how are you? >> good to see you. >> shepard: what is the response for this infrastructure proposal? >> the response has been polite. the same thing about the budget. the commercial committee says they will hold hearings on ideas about infrastructure next month. on the house side, the republican chairman of the transportation committee is...

Legislative principles to congress that will spur the biggest and boldest infrastructure investment in american history. >> shepard: legislative principles that will spur it. did you hear that? democrats are slamming the plan saying that lots of americans could end up paying for it in higher tolls and local taxes. the federal government is not paying for this. the president says well use $200 billion in federal money. we can do that. and then the rest of it will come from the locals. well give m...

With us. were going to have a few of you make statements, then well all stay around. if you want, we can leave the press or we can have the press leave immediately. ill leave that up to scott walker because youre going to be the first speaker. so scott, do you want to say a few words? >> sure. and thank you very much, everybody. >> wrapping up his introduction to infrastructure week. again, an attempt to focus on infrastructure. hes talking about a $1.5 trillion, ten-year program sparked, he hop...

His budget request. what do you anticipate there? this budget deal youre voting on today would be separate obviously from that. are you anticipating something that you will be able to sort of be happy ab when it comes to the infrastructure proposal theyre going to put forward? >> im certainly happy that it will be dealt with. its been long in the process. we need to get to it. however, what we have seen thus far really concerns me. that is the $200 billion of federal money is not new. its existi...

>> one area expected to attract democrats support is on rebuilding infrastructure. >> weve been through so many battles. hopefully we get the ability to start putting the real meat on the bone. >> house leader mocked the presidents proposal. >> the president presents himself as a man of big ideas and then he presents a lame, puny infrastructure proposal. >> facing the government funding deadline next week and a daca deadline in march, a senate republican says its time for democrats to get seriou...

Is there finally going to be a real infrastructure program rather than talking in bizarre terms and then cutting the budget for infrastructure. it is the actions that are going to make the difference. >> and we may see them, we dont know the details, we may see part of the infrastructure proposal tonight. speaking of afterwards, there are four or five separate democratic responses including the official one from congressman kennedy of massachusetts. when you have that many people giving a respon...

I think thats something that republicans and democrats should by and large be able to agree on. we know that there are a lot of investors internationally that are looking for an opportunity to reinvest in the united states. we also know that our infrastructure in comparison to other developed nations, we are behind. that is the reality. we have an opportunity to have public/private partnerships that would put many people back to work, that will train people with new skills, make them more compet...

Reform, but this is my priority and this is 2018 and this is what youre going to do. theres a big stumbling block, funding. where are they going to get the money for the infrastructure proposal? the tax bill that created a $1 trillion deficit, the repatriation money as part of the tax bill that trumps own economic adviser talked about using toward infrastructure, gone to lower corporate rates and here we are talking about approving $81 billion in new spending on hurricane relief. so i dont know ...

Audio of the president speaking at his big new years eve bash. >> we are going to have a great 2018. its going to be something very, very special. its all kicking in. everybody is going to love whats happening with our country because we are taking this big beautiful ship and we are slowly turning it around. i would like to do it faster. >> i want to go to west palm beach, florida. we go to abby philipps. what is on the presidents to do list when he gets back to washington? >> its a new year and...