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Obama campaign, strategically as an economic advisor in a campaign if you were now, how much time would you say a candidate should devoted to pointing out the fraud of donald trump when it comes to promising more coal jobs, promising more steel jobs? >> i dont know. look, im just the policy guy. what do you ask me about message? but i think some effort on that is absolutely warranted. to just say heres what he told you four years ago he was going to give you. did he? and i think thats as the eco...

Much time would you say a candidate should devoted to pointing out the fraud of donald trump when it comes to promising more coal jobs, promising more steel jobs? >> i dont know. look, im just the policy guy. what do you ask me about message? but i think some effort on that is absolutely warranted. to just say heres what he told you four years ago he was going to give you. did he? and i think thats as the economy, if it slows down, i think that message is going to resonate with a lot of people. ...

To watch between the new democratically controlled house and the white house, to see if they can work out a deal in the new year to get the government running again. >> we also want to talk about him being omb director. he still has a job. boyd, if he has to prioritize one office over the other, which do you think for him is going to take priority? >> thats -- i mean, that is tough. those are both very tough jobs and the job of chief of staff is just never ending minutia. i do think its a good t...

These hearings to confirm the new department of defense head would even get some pushback from republicans in there asking some serious questions about how this person would counter the president if they think the president is wrong on something like syria in the future. >> vivian, what do you know about the defense secretary, the new acting one and currently deputy patrick shanahan? >> so patrick shanahan was an executive with boeing prior to taking any role. he was looked at in 2017 as a possi...

House speaker paul ryan is retiring from congress and today the wisconsin republican gave his farewell speech in which he offered more of the schtick hes been honing for decades. hes a think tank, policy guy, problem solver who rolled up his sleeves too fight the corruption of politics. paul ryan has built a very successful con. since before ronald regan the gop has said its the party of low spending and budget deficits. ryan convinced a lot of people otherwise. heres the truth, ryan began his c...

A look. >> speaker paul ryan is leaving washington at just 48 years old when manny expected he would be the future of the republican party. after 20 years in congress and three years as the speaker, he says he has had enough. >> i never wanted to become speaker, i was a policy guy. i like to think i still am. major tax reform passed last years at the top of his legacy. >> it is something i worked on my entire adult life. it is something that will help improve the lives of people for a long time ...

Made him such a desirable candidate? is that something in terms of who the president is looking for? we dont know yet who could possibly be that replacement, but what are the qualities that the president wants if it wasnt a former military strong man like john kelly to bring order into the white house or former political operative like reince preb priebus to know the savvy workings of the white house. >> he cut his teeth in georgia politics. ayers was far more politically a tuned than john kelly...

Campaign. but is he a policy guy? is he a government guy? not so much. there is always a danger that it is designed to get shot down. >> you know, john, on the mattis point there, we had a test of that just recently on the khashoggi evidence, right? and you saw mattis line up with the president and mike pompeo, which seemed to be contradicted by the cia directors testimony. always good to have you on. lets get now because, again, another story were covering today. d.c. federal courthouse, our ow...

Argentina. we will work closely with them. why are you -- >> this is a typical overstatement from the statement where he really agreed to nothing new. there was no agreement at the g-20. the tar riiff s we have not bee increased. and now are working on what had been intractable problems. thats probably more than a 90 day negotiation for everything we know about negotiating with the chinese over these very sensitive issues. its an open question as to whether or not the balls really been moved for...

The ideological terrain is so messy. youll get voters like this. youll get people who are going to vote for one conservative in this instance and a liberal in that instance. our traditional labels wont capture the political behavior. >> it suggests something else interesting that policy doesnt matter. i mean, i think jeb bush learned this in the republican primary when he ran a policy ad criticizing the policy positions saying they werent conservative. gop primary voters didnt give a bleep. >> j...