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Democrats to just be obstructionist to monitor what when it comes to obamacare and tax reform? >> i think if they are taking lessons from the mitch mcconnell playbook, though be obstructionist. the president is now the president and republicans control both chambers. democrats are more than willing to work on health care reform. most democrats believe obamacare is partially working. the notion that these things take time, republicans have for eight years been campaigning on getting rid of the la...

Hey, its broken already. mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader is set to release the schedule for the repeal and eventually replace. where does this stand today when youve got mike pence on one side making his arguments and president obama set to fight vigorously to defend his law? >> the repeal is the easy part. those are all goodies, a big tax cut because of the way the law was structured. jam it through the senate on budget reconciliation. thats the way the senate democrats passed it in the...

Thats it. one page. no citizenship. period, the end, thats all it says. zpl so, this letter with your name on it, thats just -- >> no, what the letter -- by the way, this is how we beat the gang of eight. back to 2013. you remember it well. 2013. the proponents of f the gang of eight. chuck schumer, rubio, they were on tv, puffing their chests out saying we have the votes to pass it. jam it through the senate, then republican leadership in the house is going to pass it. we led the fight to defea...

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George bush legacy on foreign policy has been a sacred cow. and the republicans want to blame obama for the middle east and dont go over george bush, but donald trump has brokewen the ranks, and criticized george w. bush over iraq and used it to go after jeb, and the fact that he is bringing in 9/11 into it, that is interesting, and interesting tactic or the for him to take, but it is showing that among the republican voters there is maybe an appetite that said, hey, george bush messed up a bunc...

Because a couple of years ago this hillside was on fire and the crews were filling up the helicopter buckets out of this lake which is now a dry lake bed, elizabeth lake. so this is one of the reasons why this is a powerful mudslide behind the houses, because, you know, the hillside burn didnt have any vegetation to hold on, and it has been four years, not enough rain to germinate any root structure to hold the hillsides in place. so they have that to contend with. and dump truck after dump truc...

And a new reason to worry about the system that brings water to your home the american society of civil engineers infrastructure report card is giving this nations drinking water systems a "d" grade. and thats raising questions about just how it gets fixed. lets bring in the past president of the american society of civil engineers. greg, welcome to you. look at these 249,000 water main breaks a year in the u.s.? how did we allow things to get this bad? >> well, thank you, yes, the problem seems...

Principal, and the teachers aligned with the principal, you can change the culture of the school and create buy-in from the parent, and that is impressive to see. it did not happensee. it didnt happen throughout the district, but it did happen in select schools, and it kind of illustrated that that can make a big deference if you haifferenc freedom to do it. >> thank you, the book is "the pri prize, who in charge of americas schools." >> thank you. morscenes like this could be happening. (ray)...

Renewed speculation that he will run. analysis straight ahead. >> $100 million! >> it held promise with a lot of money behind it, but is it paying off for one of the countrys most beleaguered school systems. and leaky pipes, and americas rising tide of faucet trouble could be coming to a faucet near you. good day to all of you and with welcome to weekends with alex witt. we are following a developing story out of israel, and the west bank. palestinian protesters clashed with troops in israel...

Schools, the schools have been through tremendous down sooidzing, and cool consolidation, and the layoffs and the stress is obvious in the test scores. >> is this the reason why there were reports that some in newark did not actually welcome this these, because of that or something more to it? >> well, there was the -- there was the fear that the districtle schools were not going to farewell, and this that wasnt going to hep the district schools where 60% of the cool children still go. but it wa...