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>> thank you. >> jon: president trump keeping a low profile today after yesterdays visit to a florida fire station. he maps out his 2018 agenda. rich edson live in west palm beach florida. rich? >> good afternoon, jon. president just returned to mar-a-largo. he spent the last couple days on the golf course. soon the focus will be on 2018. the legislative agenda. the white house says the president will be meeting with paul ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell at camp david the first week ...

[burke] abstract accident. seen ♪ video-it. covered it.c we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ after the tax cut, president trump is looking for his next big legislative victory, set to unveil an infrastructure proposal next month we have learned. will there have any bipartisan report? lets discuss with mark walker from north carolina, chair of the republican study committee, good to see you, sir. merry christmas, belated...

Expected to be on the top of that list is infrastructure. >> president trump: infrastructure is the easiest of all. people want it. republicans and democrats. we will have tremendous democrat support on infrastructure, as you know. >> democrats say theyre interested in working with the white house and republicans on infrastructure. though the details are still outstanding. how much the white house and democrats are looking to spend on this infrastructure proposal and where the money will come fr...

Tyler. will politics prevent it? >> well, look, when the president -- i think they could get an infrastructure plan, probably what they should have started with it. the idea the president tweets on health care would have had a collective groan on capitol hill pretty audible. health care has done terrible things for both parties and right now the republicans are on the losing end of that battle. >> mack, just some preliminary details about the infrastructure proposal, in total it would be roughly...

Congressman, good morning to you. >> good morning. good to be here. >> good to have you. so, lets start here with the question based on the presidents context there. will it be, as the president called it, the easy one to get democrats in on this trillion dollar public/private partnership on an infrastructure plan? are you in? >> well, it would have been a lot easier if we hadnt just given a trillion and a half dollars away in tax breaks to big corporations and the wealthy in this country. thats...

Welcome back. in washington, 2018 for the republicans will be about building political momentum. right now the president hopes the mo men fum from the tax bill win will get other priorities through congress. president trump and congressional leaders will get together during the first week of the new year to tackle major infrastructure proposals. but with historically low approval ratings can the president push this agenda forward? the panel back with us now. let me start with you. the president ...

Infrastructure proposal. >> weve got a lot of ground to cover, and i want to get to dhak daca. first lets listen to what nancy pelosi said about daca and the fix by the end of the year. heres what she said in the beginning of november. >> i have to see what the spending bill is, but i believe we will not leave here without the d.r.e.a.m. act passing, daca fixed, and ive made that very clear. >> so, you know, many of the daca recipients, deferred action on childhood arrivals, 800,000 undocumented...

Support from democrats and republicans. but apparently its problematic in the era of donald trump. if donald trump really is interested in working with democrats, well start on the dreamer question, as well as it relates to community health centers and the childrens health insurance program, and then well be able to determine if hes serious or not about bringing the country together. >> he just said on a bipartisan effort he felt that he was confident that infrastructure will be that thing that ...

Now for our "what in the world" segment. ive often said if donald trump does something that to my analysis is right, i would support it. and the one piece of his campaign rhetoric with which i agreed entirely was his promise to put forward a $1 trillion plan to rebuild americas infrastructure. the problem stares us in the face every day, from a spillway failure at the nations tallest dam causing the evacuation of 188,000 people, to a bridge collapse several years ago at a major transportation ar...

Now for our "what in the world" segment. ive often said if donald trump does something that to my analysis is right, i would support it. and the one piece of his campaign rhetoric with which i agreed entirely was his promise to put forward a $1 trillion plan to rebuild americas infrastructure. the problem stares us in the face every day, from a spillway failure at the nations tallest dam causing the evacuation of 188,000 people, to a bridge collapse several years ago at a major transportation ar...