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Of that city. lots of competition now between many of the rival groups in northern syria to establish the end game they would like to see when isis is taken out. the issue now with the trump administration threatening the syrian regime is exactly where does the u.s. see itself in a post-isis world in syria? are they out or still trying to influence the game? jake? also in world news today, the state department is out with its annual human trafficking report with the presidents daughter and sen...

Your health insurance. >> but the one thing that he wouldnt say and i pushed him repeatedly on this was that hes willing to support tax credits. its something that conservatives in the house are already worried about. the fact that ted cruz wasnt willing to say hed support it tells you something about the pressures going on behind the scenes on that. thats a major policy priority and its just one that could potentially be derailed by dissent within republican ranks. >> kasie, thank you for that....

Really challenge this president who even his own party has questioned whether or not he truly meets their bar of a conservative. many still say hes a liberal democrat who ran as a conservative republican. >> right. and this is the big difference between what we just saw as you were pointing out, chairman, plem, giving us a sense of his policy priority. those are order that can only go so far. the pick for the sport is one of the most important things. and as you see it will battle both what cons...

Moves, that has to set the hill into action to move forward with whatever comes next and whatever will replace it. same with obamacare. what we heard from paul ryan and his conversation with trump was you got to sort of give us one big thing at a time. thats how the hill works. we cant really juggle every policy priority. >> its not how donald trump works. >> in that vain, john mccain called the tpp a serious mistake to pull out but offers no legislative alternative. >> that is again the feeling...

Roosevelt. the nobel peace prize. cant we just put a tyler in there, a pierce in there? you walk by all these oil paintings of the icons. what president doesnt want to swing for the fences? i think what may make him slightly different is what personal political price hes willing to pay for that public -- what he believes is a policy priority where other people would -- not that they wouldnt do it, but they woulden in decide were going to go x percent. i think swinging from the fences, every pres...

Just put a tyler in there. cant we put a pierce in there? you walk all these oil paintings of the great, the icons. what president doesnt to want swing for the fences? >> i think may make him slightly different is what personal, political price hes willing to pay for that public -- what he believes is a policy priority. where other people would not that they would do it, but they would then decide maybe were going to go x percent and so i think swinging through the fences. every president, every...

Romney thing is designed to placate certain people. i would argue the interesting thing is mike flynn and rudy guiliani, these are two guys who view the radical islamic terrorism as the overriding policy priority. in a way, rudy would only amplify what mike flynn would bring to that job. >> there might be conflict there on russia. rudy guiliani is not where mike flynn is on russia. what about rudys business background, hed have to recuse himself? >> well, this is problematic. hes not just done b...

Polici policies. -- a strong case that people should go to healthcare.gov, consider the options that are available to them and sign up for health care. and the vast majority of people who do will be able to purchase health insurance for $75 a month or less. that is a policy priority that benefits the american people enormously since the affordable care act went into effect 20 million americans got access to health care. and, you know, we want to make sure as many americans as possible understand...

Policy priority on some issue. but also it depends how rich the donor is. with addelson, people say he put $100 million in the campaigns. he says himself thats nothing. he makes that in two weeks on his dividends. so people dont understand the scale of the wealth that is accessible to these groups through super pacs. >> it is very hard to get your head around what it would mean to have a billion dollars at your disposal, right? so its very hard to understand that, like, i remember going back and...

>> i think its often friendship. sometimes its access and a policy priority on some issue. but also it depends how rich the donor is. with addelson, people say he put $100 million in the campaigns. he says himself thats nothing. he makes that in two weeks on his dividends. so people dont understand the scale of the wealth that is accessible to these groups through super pacs. >> it is very hard to get your head around what it would mean to have a billion dollars at your disposal, right? so its v...