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Vermont, democrat joe manchin of west virginia and many others. >> this economic message platform is going to resonate. its what we were missing, and its not going to be baby steps. its going to be bold. were coming out with it this summer within a month you will see it, and democrats will try to pass it legislatively for a year and campaign on it in 2018. its what we were missing in 2016, and in the past were going to -- we know that. when you lose an election, you dont blame other people. you ...

Ideas? >> its hard to say whats a good idea until you see it legislatively. in a period of pretty low gasoline prices, youre from oklahoma, you keep an eye on the price of accrued. if youre ever going to do it, this is probably as good a time as anyone. you can also, you know, couple that with a trigger to say gasoline went above a certain price. in terms of breaking up the banks, it depends what youre talking about. banks that are large enough to cause catastrophe on the economy the big banks h...

Are on planes. theres an industry component. then ill leave it up to congress to decide whether or not it is appropriate to address it legislatively. once theres a piece of legislation, we would have an opportunity to weigh in. >> asking you to clarify something else the president said. said i dont stand by anything. how is the american public supposed to digest that, supposed to trust what the president says, when he con sugts of his own comments, i dont stand by anything. >> what are you refer...

They want to meet that 100 days date deadline. i think they want to have something to show for it legislatively, which until now they dont. i also think because they were so embarrassed by the first defeat that they want to recover and get back on their feet. and some of it may be lets make it so quick that the american people dont have a chance to react, that we dont have a replay of all of those town halls that we saw for weeks and weeks where congress people were getting screamed at and holle...

Complicated? >> no. i think if you think about it legislatively in order to maximize, and i know this is -- for most people it doesnt make a ton of sense but the savings that you achieve through the first reconciliation of health care, which were doing through the 2017 budget process, which still continues, allows us to utilize the savings in that process to maximize additional tax reform measures that will start in the 2018 fy 2018 reconciliation process. while that sounds like a ton of inside ...

Through it legislatively and the indication is, no, theyre staying the course for now. president trump monitoring and reacting over the weekend. let me read you some of his sharp tweets from over the weekend directed at the judge. one just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. if something happens blame him and court system. people pouring in bad. in a second tweet he wrote "ive instructed homeland security to check people coming into our country very carefully, the court m...

V.a. that means that there are? concerns, now, about the plans to privatize veterans care and whether or not that could now be off the table. the executive director for concerned veterans said in a statement, it noise secret that the v.a. has been failing veterans for years. while shulkin already holds a leadership position as secretary, he will now have ultimate responsibility over the agency and we are hopeful he will take it in a new direction. joining me now is congressman mayor that roby, s...

Years republicans -- eight years really, but more importantly over the past three or four, republicans have complained that the regulations that the obama administration have put in place have -- it has been terrible for the business community and sort of hurt the economic process and so forth. you are going to see republicans try to push through those reforms. >> remove a lot of the regulations that the president signed by executive order. >> exactly. >> which the new president can unsign by ex...

Legislation in congress, but first well talk legislation. it does seem to me that people say, you can fix part of obamacare through regulation right away, including maybe reducing some of the mandates. how much of the law can be repealed or minimized through regulation? >> through regulation alone, youre somewhat limited. the legislation is this famous 2700 pages. there are many, many more thousands of pages of regulation after that, but those implement the actual legislation. what they can do a...

Always pushing for some way to defund obamacare be it legislatively. they always want to defund obamacare. that seems like they are playing to the crowd. >> ted cruz has made a career at this point argument, im the only one who has stood up to mainstream republicans in congress. >> i must say donald trumps a absence at this event is a huge opportunity for ted cruz who very badly needs some oxygen. needs some running room and as we could see there, he was taking it. interesting too the other nigh...