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And youve done a tremendous job from a foreign attack and things of that sort and, director wray, i appreciate what the fbi does an they have a strong presence in west virginia. and were very, very appreciative of that. what type of efforts from each one of your agencies have you spent as far as is drugs and fighting the drug infestation highest on the priority list, a great danger or part of the overall scheme of things? and -- >> just speaking for the intelligence community, it is a high prior...

Priority list once more as hes done several times. this is not really ultimately where its going to end up. shep, this is comprehensive immigration reform, this is a massive restructuring of immigration policy that has been in place for a minimum of half a century. a real cut back to legal immigration that the democrats will fight. in terms of getting a deal, democrats have to make the decision, are they going to do a shut down fight on february 8 or are they going to continue with the word they...

Paychecks. >> and to overhaul u.s. infrastructure. >> were going to get infrastructure built quickly. >> to do all that, he needed help from congress and a priority list. >> one thing that was important to him was tax reform. he didnt push that one first. he went with what he was urged to do by his chief of staff, reince priebus and some others in the white house wanted to do health care first. >> repeal and replace obamacare. he pointed to americans who felt burdened by the imperfect program. >...

Donald trump came to washington with three big goals for congress in his first year as president. to repeal and replace obamacare. >> obamacare is a disaster. >> to overhaul the tax code. >> we want lower taxes, bigger paychecks -- >> to overall u.s. infrastructure. >> were going to get infrastructure built quickly. >> to do all that, he needed help from congress. and a priority list. >> one thing that was important to him was tax reform. he didnt push that one first. he went with what he was ur...

Where do >> where does that fall on your priority list? they dont care much about. i saw a poll released thursday or friday that said while people support daca, they dont think social security worth a shutdown. >> remember that this didnt have to be something we had to discuss at this moment. it became that way because trump made it that way. they dhachanged the rules. you have people concerned about deportation and how do we fix that? it is a crisis situation that was created by this administra...

Or pay the taxes and either in school or working. and the kind of the immigrants that you probably want, but how do the reps not come out on the wrong side of this, and how do they not end up looking like the people who let the dreamers down some >> and i would lump myself into that, because i do support some form of limited immigration -- >> 9 of 10 americans do. >> and it is to support it and where does it fall on the priority list, and there are iss issues that are 08/20 or outside of certain...

Perfectly honest. the first step is this has to clear the house. house republicans have to do it on their own. if republicans cannot muster the vote in the house, democrats absolutely at the table making demands of their priority list because republicans are going to need them to help fund the government. if it can clear the house, which republican leadership seems to think they can do with arm twisting, although that is not clear quite yet, then it goes to the senate and becomes more difficult....

Recognize that trump and republicans are in the drivers seat. it goes beyond a little bit what "the wall street journal" is saying. if they have leverage to shape any policy and if they are going able to ensure to get one of the most important policy priorities this year, it has to be done with leverage. that is why the mechanics of the government funding fight are dicey. they are trying to use the leverage to get as much off the priority list. >> tal, chief of staff john kelly says the presiden...

But right now his hemoglobin a 1 c is normal. right now he has no diabetes at all. it will be a routine thing that well do every year. if it becomes a problem well address it. >> did you test his hearing? >> i did not. i will test it. the only reason i didnt was because i didnt have enough time to do it in this particular exam. the exam was pretty packed and we had to make some decisions on what we could and couldnt do and hearing seemed low on the priority list and it is something i can do at a...

He has no evidence of diabetes at all. well continue to be a routine thing that we do every year with fasting blood glucose and if it becomes a problem well address it. >> did you test his hear something. >> i did not. the only reason i didnt test it because i didnt have enough time to do it in this particular exam. we had the exam packed and we had to make some conscious decisions about what we did and didnt do and hearing was low on the priority list right now. its something that i can do at a...