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The lifeblood of our economy. finally, republicans in congress, keep your word. please repeal and replace obamacare. get your act together. this is not rocket science. its the things you ran on. president trump has a higher approval rating than the media by far and all of you in congress. what have you been doing all these years? here with reaction, kellyanne conway. i know i am long-winded but i feel very passionately. its time to stop the nonsense. americans are suffering here. they need jobs....

Presidential historian douglas brinkley who met with him wednesday. >> he said it will be short. i dont like something long-winded. im going to get right to my point and im going to write it all myself. >> reporter: a transition official says that donald trump will be convening a dinner meeting here tonight to get some input from his top aides about his speech and going forward we know that he has been discussing a few past inauguration addresses, those of former president reagan and kennedy, ce...

Moving forward is lack of trust. >> and that remains the core issue. lack of trust that the greeks will do what they say they were going to do. and christi, let me just read you a tweet which has just come from the very well-known economist, new york economist jeffrey sachs. he describes the eurozone, the eurozone is a crazy house, incoherent, incompetent, and cruel. and to that we might also add long-winded. the talks are going to go all day. >> ouch. all right. hey, thank you so much, richard ...

Great conversation and its an important topic. thank you both. >> thank you, chris. the middle class will be the cornerstone of president obamas speech today, just 15 to 20 minutes from now. he says he will focus on how the middle class benefits from obama care and he will go drilling down into the real costs to consumers so stay with us and watch it live. time to check the news for you this morning. we learned that the wife of civil rights leader laurie has died. she was a leader herself fo...

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Republicans, standing in solidarity with ted cruz while mitch mcconnell is opposing what hes doing on the senate floor. that, as one republican aide said to me, was more of the establishment ranks, looks deeply dysfunctional to our chief donors and shows the party from where we are right now. democrats sit back dumb founded. democrats know theres a lot of political liability with this bill but as long as ted cruz does this, the focus is on him, his ego, whatever hes doing here in washington, d.c...

Emeritous of the zoo will join us live. while you were asleep rand paul finally stopped talking. the kentucky senator protesting the obama administrations domestic drone policy with an old-fashioned filibuster, stopping only for an occasional drink or a bite of a snickers bar that he brought with him while delaying the eventual confirmation of cia john brennan in order to make this point. >> no american should be killed by a drone on american soil without first being charged with a crime, with...

In that country who could begin to compete with him. he was physically and politically larger than life, complete theater, ultimately bad for the country. he was saved, if you will, by the oil windfalls. you just get a sense of a kind of theatricality that you almost never get in politics. seriously anti-american and anti-democratic, just about populism. >> there are a couple terms, tee at rickal, long-winded that remind us of someone else in the region, castro. chavez, in your view, was he the ...

History and a different set of threats around the world than we went in to. so theres a lot of play here, very complicated but part of the reality of the 21st century an im afraid we are going to be operating in this mode for a long time. i know thats a long-winded answer but thats how i feel about it. >> isnt there i wonder a reality we ought to acknowledge about how sort of the internal politics of the republican party on capitol hill changed in the obama era? you talk about maybe hes spent to...

He talks about it all the time. but i think what he needs to do is talk about it with enough specificity and concisely enough to make it fit in a debate answer. thats a hard thing to do. that is what his greater challenge is. i think the president, he needs to make no mistakes. he needs to try to get through this intact and believe his lead will survive it. >> bret: does make nomean hold ? does it mean dean smith and the unc basketball four corner offense? or does it mean he goes on the attack t...