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Infrastructure bill? >> most indications say its going to be a smaller package than president trump promised on the campaign trail when he said a trillion dollars for an infrastructure push. that money has not come to the table. its not in the draft plans the way that it looked during the campaign. but the other thing is that democrats and a lot of local, state and county officials have to figure out how theyre spending their money especially now that tax reform has gone through. if they look to...

>> the brightest light you can shine on this is that he needs good relationships with members of congress to get his agenda through. if you can create that good relationship on the golf course, we see this all the time in business and politics but its a large number of days. >> he once treated about obama that he should play with democrats. that would be one thing wed like to see, how about president trump play golf with democrats in 2018? new years resolution. golf with democrats. >> yeah. they...

Reform. >> how can you oppose infrastructure if youre the democratic party? >> theres the overall spending in this bill. they could say its not enough, its not what was promised. its not high enough but theres also the question of timing. so democrats really want to see daca on the table as soon as possible in the new year. if you look back at the fall president trump said he would give them six movants for tnths. but republicans and democrats are looking at proposals to shore up the health care...

Police officer that may be nearby and mention it to them. something that doesnt seem right is something we all want to investigate. >> talk that theres a big infrastructure push in the new year. the president indicated that. a number in both parties have expressed support to hear each side out. obviously the tsa and security at airports could and likely will be part of that. what do we need? >> well, we need -- when tsa first was formed, we basically worked into the existing infrastructure at ai...

Hes start with infrastructure. i mean, theres been a lot of talk but not much done, yet, and that committee of businessmen fell apart the other day. what does the administration do about that? >> thats a good question. i think it will continue to be a priority of president trumps, but it is going to be tricky. it will be tricky for a few different reasons. one, he will need to get a democratic and republican support for any kind of infrastructure overhaul and his relationships particularly with ...

Message, but by then, he had already sent all these tweets into t into into the ether about basically everything except infrastructure. and the other point behind this infrastructure push is, look, theres no legislation behind this. theres no firm timeline from the white house on when they want to do this. and weve seen over and over again, their legislative items stalled, whether its because of the russia investigation or because of president trump fi firing james comey, or because of whatever ...

And the other point behind this infrastructure push is, look, theres no legislation behind this. theres no firm timeline from the white house on when they want to do this. and weve seen over and over again, their legislative items stalled, whether its because of the russia investigation or because of president trump firing james comey, or because of whatever tweet he puts out in the universe. we saw aides trying to get him on message for the week and then the president did his thing on twitter. ...

Spotlight as opposed to the investigation over russia with former fbi director james comey set to testify later on this week just as the president kicks off this big infrastructure push. this plan begins today with the air traffic control plan that i just told you about. and ends with a speech at the transportation department on friday. the complaint from the white house is that the media are ignoring the presidents accomplishments. joining us now to talk about that, judy miller, pulitzer prize-...

It expressed some hope over. but wheres the money going to come from? if its going to be a priority, thats fine. you could make an argument for federal spending on these issues, certainly not to follow in the footsteps of the obama stimulus early on with all those shovel-ready jobs that never materialized. >> bret: we are hearing that wilbur ross has been working on getting money for the public-private partnership. that will possibly be an element of the infrastructure plan but we dont have a lo...

It expressed some hope over. but wheres the money going to come from? if its going to be a priority, thats fine. you could make an argument for federal spending on these issues, certainly not to follow in the footsteps of the obama stimulus early on with all those shovel-ready jobs that never materialized. >> bret: we are hearing that wilbur ross has been working on getting money for the public-private partnership. that will possibly be an element of the infrastructure plan but we dont have a lo...