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Lets put in voter i.d. in here which is something that republicans have been talking. he said, look, make election day a holiday, give people are 15 days to vote, ban partisan gerrymandering. what is wrong with that? that is -- those are kind of apriory sort of basic common sense issues and he said to republicans if you are worried about the federalization of state and local laws im giving states the ability to maintain their own voter rolls and lets take that off the table and then they run out...

General and rosenstein has his own recusal issues with regard to the mueller investigation, of course, he was the one who wrote the memo justifying the firing of jim comey and a whole lot of other participation including signing off of fisa warrants, perhaps he should have rescued himself a long ago and noel francisco is not. paul: lets put that a aside and who he should nominate. theres a balance that you report to the president as attorney general, part of executive branch, on the other hand, ...

At this junction, houston will be looking at a lot of rain, a lot of water, a lot of flooding. if you had to recommend anything regardless of what local officials are saying in any area of your big state, what would you tell them? >> well, several things. first, lets put in context what you just said, because it will be the most important things happening over the next few days. we will have incredible flooding, taking place all the way from corpus christi all the way up to the houston area. so,...

>> jon: dominic >> whether or not they can use the processes of the senate to get something meaningful out, i think both republicans and democrats have a lot to answer here. democrats are acting and obstructive way. there no way interest in helpi. chuck schumer is trying to walk that line, meanwhile, republicans are not delivering to their base. their base asked for a lot more than this and if theyre only giving them half of it which will result in higher premiums and fewer people having health ...

Were going to be looking at this for a long time. >> a lot of political rhetoric along the way. >> always beware of single factor analysis. thats why were glad to have you. lisa, lets put in one more factor into this big calderon. there are more americans being held in afghanistan. kaitlyn coleman and joshua boyle and their child. they were travelers in afghanistan last year. they have been held for quite a while. he is a canadian national. she is an american citizen. and their families are sayi...

Theyre saying theres a lot of waste in the system. and doctors overordering tests and procedures. overordering surgeries, and theres no brakes on it. know way to control it and its a lot of waste and lets reward quality and by the way, this is the hope for us, one of the thrusts of obamacare, lets put in more regulations and lets try to reward doctors for doing whats called quality medicine. but theres a big down side to this. first of all, whos going to determine this? second of all, doctors ar...

Neighborhoods. there are big problems with this issue. >> gregg: lets put on three of the options that are being proposed. option one, sell homes in bulk to investors who agree to repair properties. number two, hire managers to oversee the rentals to be sold. structure transactions so the government and investors share revenues. good idea? >> none of these are radical. some of nonprofits are upset about this because banks who were involved with the how go bubble might be profiting from some of t...

Which tend to be african-american or tend to be ethic minorities. >> gregg: what strikes me that would be bad, banks and companies, all of a sudden, lets buy up all the surplus foreclosed homes and were going to dump them on the marketplace just to make, i dont know, 20 cents on the dollar. wouldnt that really hurt neighborhoods and devalue itself a are still owned by individuals? >> i did some research. one sale of one foreclosed home in a neighborhood can bring the property values so much that...

Basically it wont stabilize neighborhoods. there are big problems with this issue. >> gregg: lets put on three of the options that are being proposed. option one, sell homes in bulk to investors who agree to repair properties. number two, hire managers to oversee the rentals to be sold. structure transactions so the government and investors share revenues. good idea? >> none of these are radical. some of nonprofits are upset about this because banks who were involved with the how go bubble might...

8 states, by the way, are also raising the minimum wage which include arizona, oregon, washington, montana, colorado, ohio, veteran and florida. got all of this? and san francisco will be the first city to raise the minimum wage above $10 an hour and utah, new laws making any daily drink specials illegal. essentially, banning happy hour. one more reason why gregg should never move to utah. >> heather: whew! quite a list. >> gregg: i love utah. >> reporter: you cant drink there. >> gregg: a great...