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Are we in a situation where expectations were set too high? >> thats a good question. i think on either one of these things the time frame -- the time frame on a war in afghanistan, weve been in afghanistan for almost ten years. the president has obviously added a number of new troops both at the beginning of 2009 and certainly last winter and those troops are coming in. this is always going to take some time. we knew it would take some time. sometimes the time for afghanistan or time for financ...

>> on a lot of the issues you face right now from the oil spill to the economy to the war in afghanistan, is the president and his team falling short or are we in a situation where expectations were set too high? >> thats a good question. i think on either one of these things the time frame -- the time frame on a war in afghanistan, weve been in afghanistan for almost ten years. the president has obviously added a number of new troops both at the beginning of 2009 and certainly last winter and t...

The president is frustrated that we havent seen greater recovery efforts, but that doesnt stop us from doing what we know is right, instituting the policies that we know will bring this country back and put it on a pathway forward that lets our economy grow or creates stronger security for our country. >> a few quick ones on the economy. will you let the bush tax cuts expire creating in effect a tax hike on americans? >> the president is not going to in a time of economic crisis raise taxes on t...

Reached. >> my goodness, the president has gone from 2.25 trillion down to $1 trillion. the republicans have come up quite a bit from where they started. well talk to senator capito after those meetings, well talk to the white house and we think we can find a pathway forward, were not that far apart. griff: transportation secretary pete buttigieg also optimistic. >> weve seen a lot of republicans state their interest in doing something real on infrastructure. weve got to see if we can actually g...

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Repeatedly throughout the night. senator lindsey graham has been proposing a three-week continuing resolution, basically saying that the current funding bill that would go till four weeks, reduce that to three weeks, give people the opportunity to work on a resolution for the daca issue, work on a resolution for a two-year spending bill, the myriad of issues that are still out there right now. that is his pitch. the groups have been going back and forth. republicans were circled journalistjust a...

Dont come up with anything? whats the point? >> youve seen both democrats and republicans be pretty positive about where theyre going. theyre trying to find a pathway forward, were ten days out from a shutdown. this is a very important step in washington speak, in a washington kind of manner for this to happen. certainly a deal on this will be cut for the big four leaders of congress with the white house. theyve been negotiating behind the scene as a lot. people seem pessimistic that theyll be a...

>> last night there was optimism and pessimism throughout the night and into the early morning. you met. can you talk about what specifically changed? >> let me just say every meeting we were in, in susans office and meetings susan and i had separately, was always an optimistic meeting. we always knew that there was a pathway forward and it was a reasonable pathway forward. most importantly should we ever have shut the government down? absolutely not. other people felt differently. the bottom li...

Washington is too often hyperpartisan and driven by the ideological groups on the far left and far right rather than the sensible center. >> let me just -- >> please, senator. >> when i first came in november of 2010 after the death of senator bird, and i was a two-term governor and i made the decision to come and people were kind enough to send me here, the only group i found to look to the middle to find a pathway forward and find solutions was no labels. it was democrats and republicans, and ...

President trump late last week after he said exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail, with which is consult with his generals and his national security team, weigh the facts and the evidence, and take action. and he did that. >> we need to make sure that russia fully understands the actions that assad took, the commitments that syria has made, and russia has equally agreed to those same understanding, so getting them back on the same page first and foremost would seem the logical ...