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>> yeah. sorry about the makeup on the collar. >> so if we ever -- if we ever get to infrastructure week -- >> uh-huh. >> its going to be really interesting. because it isnt about infrastructure. its all about the trump version of this, of course, is all about really big tax breaks to pavement companies. to companies that are in the road-building business, and its not really about any government spending or anything that would actually produce any infrastructure at all. and so im kind of eager t...

Thanks for returning that blue blazer to my closet from last night. >> yeah. sorry about the makeup on the collar. >> so if we ever -- if we ever get to infrastructure week -- >> uh-huh. >> its going to be really interesting. because it isnt about infrastructure. its all about the trump version of this, of course, is all about really big tax breaks to pavement companies. to companies that are in the road-building business, and its not really about any government spending or anything that would a...

Television are a number of democrats trying to demonize the presidents wall project by calling it this. >> what we dont want to do is waste taxpayer money on a vanity project. >> we are talking about a request for $5.6 billion that the american public knows could be spent on issues that impact them every day not on the president wants vanity project. >> what we are not doing is giving him more than 5 billion for a vanity project. >> for one thing this is a vanity wall. >> members of his own part...

America is reinforcing its border. >> thats the key. as we continue to secure the border and continue this fight, then that message will percolate. thats part of the challenge and why not just the wall but the dwyer border security package that the president and his team are proposing is so important in this fight. because you are never going to deal with the root cause of these issues which will take a much longer term solution without having a secure border and working on asylum laws. brian: y...

The other thing is to look at him. is he getting attacked more -- he is another one getting attacked from liberals calling him a light weight and somebody who is not up on policy issues. steve: all right. what is he interested in universal healthcare raise taxes on the rich which we heard the sound bite for and pathway to citizenship for people in the country illegally. >> higher taxes and amnesty for illegal aliens. again, one of the things you will see in the democratic primary. you worry if y...

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Think about -- >> i bet you have. so really, what are the big lessons and takeaways that you would hope that the republican party would learn from this last election season? >> well, i think that, clearly, in my race, for instance, and many of the races that we lost in the house, the president was the issue. and the tone and tenor of the administration and a lot of the tweets and things like that really turn a lot of people off. i can argue and support many of the policies, but the way in which ...

To pivot a little bit in terms of getting to policy issues. those are the keys in terms of a re-elect. while everything will go on on the democratic side in terms of whos in, whos out, theyll have a circular firing squad at each other, as the republicans did in 2016. so what the president should do is take a step above the fray and say lets talk about policy, lets talk about the economy which i think will be the real driving force when we look at 2020. arthel: thats a good point you make there. ...

Media bubble where too much of political coverage is focused. >> i think aoc, her first big interview of the year is tonight. she used that to talk about taxes and the green new deal. she tried in her own way to bring up policy issues. then, the question is whether or not the press will follow up on those issues. >> right. shes done a good job of moving the conversation around policy and around the green new deal into something every democrat who is running for president is being asked about. th...

Nominated, especially in the instance of the department of the interior. so i dont think theyll skip a beat as it relates to the policy issues that are being put forward by this administration, especially in important agencies like interior. >> all right. jim schultz, ambassador eisen, thank you. >> thanks, anderson. thanks jim. coming up, something to make you smile at the end of a long week. in dancing politicians are wrong, we dont want to be right. t theory dick li the ridic yew list is ne...