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The up keep of the plant. lets take the mta, for example, subway cars, if you invest in the unions, the workers, you skimp over the years on things like buying trains or upgrading signals. >> thats right. the politicians have been paying off their public unions who are big donors to their campaign and just neglected these repairs, but theyve also been investing to an extent in some, you know, the 2nd avenue subway >> they finally built that -- >> they could cut some ribbons. they can maybe win s...

Corridor from boston all the way down to richmond, virginia. >> right. >> needs new investment, if you want to maintain that train service. >> we are talking the country, labor costs, project labor agreements for the west coast and east coast. it is breaking down, probably more visible where you have a lot of commuters, but the same problems are occurring everywhere. >> and some of the systems are the oldest here because some of the tracks were laid and the infrastructure laid in the 30s, 20s, a...

Senate rule. republicans, what do they do about it, james? >> well, i think they may go further to change the rules. we saw how chuck schumer, the democrats, basically put up the goal line stand against neil gorsuch, bad move, he was a blue chip nominee, should not have been a big fight about that. that ended up killing the filibuster for judicial nominees going forward. so i think normally the senate, a lot of it runs on unanimous consent. >> right. >> and thats how they waive all these complic...

About what they stand for. >> theres one senator whos already said hes not even going to vote to a motion to proceed and thats rand paul of kentucky. hes a libertarian. why would he blow up this bill? if this fails, james, you get obama care. >> yeah, and i think republicans who vote against it also deserve primary challenges because the united states government has unfunded liabilities in the tens of trillions or perhaps the hundreds of trillions. this is one little baby step towards reforming ...

Joe rago and james freeman. james, lets take a step back here, for a second, as they approach the august recess, 7 months, almost 8, into this -- i guess its seven into the presidency. typically a time when a new congress, a new government with the same party running both sides of pennsylvania avenue, gets a lot done. what do they have to show for it so far? >> by the traditional measures maybe not much. we think of pelosi and reid putting a huge stimulus on barack obamas desk within a month, th...

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Senate rule. republicans, what do they do about it, james? >> well, i think they may go further to change the rules. we saw how chuck schumer, the democrats, basically put up the goal line stand against neil gorsuch, bad move, he was a blue chip nominee, should not have been a big fight about that. that ended up killing the filibuster for judicial nominees going forward. so i think normally the senate, a lot of it runs on unanimous consent. >> right. >> and thats how they waive all these complic...

Joe rago and james freeman. james, lets take a step back here, for a second, as they approach the august recess, 7 months, almost 8, into this -- i guess its seven into the presidency. typically a time when a new congress, a new government with the same party running both sides of pennsylvania avenue, gets a lot done. what do they have to show for it so far? >> by the traditional measures maybe not much. we think of pelosi and reid putting a huge stimulus on barack obamas desk within a month, th...

The up keep of the plant. lets take the mta, for example, subway cars, if you invest in the unions, the workers, you skimp over the years on things like buying trains or upgrading signals. >> thats right. the politicians have been paying off their public unions who are big donors to their campaign and just neglected these repairs, but theyve also been investing to an extent in some, you know, the 2nd avenue subway >> they finally built that -- >> they could cut some ribbons. they can maybe win s...

♪ ooo baby lets... ♪ ...lets stay together... >> time now for our hits and misses of the week. james? >> paul, this is a hit to facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. his company collects data about all of us. apparently it is not enough. so he is personally going out to middle america to meet people, find out what their concerns are, hockey moms, steelworkers, oil workers, i think theres some question of what his motives are here. is it marketing? is it about a political run? but i think...