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Billionaires, and theres such closeness, i think one of the worst things he did on the swamp is theyre allowing lobbyists to work in the administration on issues they lobbied on and they get waivers that are secret, so theres been promise after promise thats been either unfulfilled or broken on infrastructure, we sent them a trillion dollar plan, we havent heard a peep out of them. we are willing to work on issues like this. the bottom line is very simple, the president, if he works with us, par...

Well, they were in cabinet, billionaires, and theres such closeness, i think one of the worst things he did on the swamp is theyre allowing lobbyists to work in the administration on issues they lobbied on and they get waivers that are secret, so theres been promise after promise thats been either unfulfilled or broken on infrastructure, we sent them a trillion dollar plan, we havent heard a peep out of them. we are willing to work on issues like this. the bottom line is very simple, the preside...

Dominated by the hard right special interests. look at the cabinet. he said he was going to, you know, he picked a cabinet of billionaires, people with conflicts of interest. he was going to clean the swamp? this one was an amazing thing to me! not only are they going to let people who lobbied and were lobbyists on a special issue work in the white house, but theyre going to keep it secret. thats cleaning the swamp? on issue after issue. on tax reform, all for the wealthy people. health care, bi...

Establishes. hes a hard right special interests guy. his health care failed because it was so far to the right. his attempt to force us to take the wall nearly caused a government shutdown. his tax bill thar, they cant s itll help the middle class at all. it helps the wealthy. you cant govern from the hard right and thats what hes doing. >> is that the only reason you think he is a bad negotiator? what is he like behind the scenes? >> hes friendly but every time hes called me, its not been on a ...

Still are having trouble with republicans. so, i sat down with chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate, earlier today. he was somebody who, you know, there was a line of thinking that went, look, these are both new york politicians, they understand each other, they kind of operated in the same tabloid media sphere for a long time, maybe they will be able to get something done together and they do talk, but i asked senator schumer how president trump was doing in negotiating with congres...

Election. so go to the capital markets and earn $400,000, id like to say this, mr. president. welcome to the club. >> neil: its a free country. don peebles, the president and ceo of the peep -- peebles corporation. he got the same amount last night and we have more next. we asked a group of young people when they thought they should start saving for retirement. then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually d...

That mark. hes always going to boomerang back to i want to pull out of nafta even though the facts of the situation dont necessarily match that conclusion. and interestingly, you know, on both ends of our border this week its been a rough week for canada and mexico and their relationship with the united states. it started earlier in the week when trump started talking about mexico paying for the wall again. thats something that really bothers our southern neighbor. canada with the milk and the s...

Their members of congress. those are the two things that should be concerning this president. >> and patty, to adams point, do you then think that the democratic party, itd be more advantageous to just be the party of no, even though it may shut the government down? should the democratic party say, look, our base loves this, were not going to engage in any deal-making with you, mr. president? >> no, i dont think we need to be the party of no. we need to actually get things done, because the othe...

Thought we would work on. >> yeah. >> democrats, the whole caucus, bernie sanders, joe manchin, supported this proposal. havent heard a peep in two months. >> susan page, what do you think? is chuck scher, the democrats likely to hear a peep in the next few months on this? >> there is some second guessing even inside the white house about whether they did the right thing by pursuing health care, first maybe ncinfrastructure or the tax vote would have been a better thing to start out with. back t...

>> lets talk about democrats for a minute. the dnc chair is out on a road trip with bernie sanders of theyre talking about transforming and unifying the party. heres the clip. >> youre on this road trip now with the head of the dnc. youre talking about reforming, revivin reviving, trans forming the party. do you consider yourself a democrat? >> no. im an independent. if the democratic party will succeed. and i want to see it succeed. it will have to open its door to independents. there are probe...