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Briefs which is the crown jewel of our $80 billion a year intelligence apparatus. >> we spend a lot of money on this. >> in the pentagon budget its a rounding error, but it is people risking their lives. the nsa eaves dropping on communications around the world. all so the president can have the best information. past presidents have not always taken an in-person briefing. nixon never did. obama didnt even do it every day, but obama had a national security meeting to discuss classified intellige...

No solid findings. what do you want people to know about your position on that? >> first of all, although the race for governor took 22 months and a lot of energy spent on these kinds of issues the politics continue. they will determine that i have acted in complete compliance with the law. what i think people know about me in my state which is why we came within a rounding error is they believe me to be honest. i have been forth right, i tried to level with people squarely and thats the only wa...

A $20 trillion economy, its awfully hard to make even the best guesstimates of those kinds of small fractions of numbers. thats what youre looking at here. >> small fractions of numbers. keeping them honest, hes not saying, as commerce secretary wilbur ross said the other day that 800,000 americans are a rounding error, he does seem to be saying their contribution to the economy is a rounding error. so, it remains an open question. does president trump truly understand the sacrifices hes imposed...

Number overall. this message came to you from commerce secretary wilbur ross, whod made a custom pair of velvet slippers with the seal of the commerce department on them. im not kidding. that actually happened. i dont think even mr. burns on "the simpsons" wears slippers like that. so thats the message from wilbur ross. to him 800,000 unpaid public servants are essentially a rounding error. keeping them honest. perhaps they should tell that to tsa officer ollie morganfield. chris james got to kn...

Whod made a custom pair of velvet slippers with the seal of the commerce department on them. im not kidding. that actually happened. i dont think even mr. burns on "the simpsons" wears slippers like that. thats a comment from wilbur ross. to him 800,000 unpaid public servants are essentially a rounding error. perhaps they should tell that to ollie morganfield. chris james got to know him recently and spoke with him the day he went to apply for food stamps. >> i work at hartsfield jackson airport...

Gigantic rich law firm, "the wall street journal" said today that their annual revenue as a law firm is something like $2.5 billion in revenue every year now. 2.5 billion a year. them having to pay the government pack $4.6 million, thats like a freckle on a flea to them. that is not even a rounding error for them. they will not even feel that in one days billings. and we should also note that the money they are paying back apparently according to prosecutors, that 4.6 million they got to pay bac...

2.5 billion-dollar in rs in reva year. them having to pay the government back $4.6 million, thats like a freckle on a flea to them. that is not even a rounding error for them. they will not even feel that in one days billings. and we should also note the money they are paying back apparently according to prosecutors, that 4.6 million they are paying back, yeah, they have to pay back to the government but thats just the money they received to do this illegal foreign lobbying work. thats just the ...

Calling him a hostage taker i think hides the truth of whats going on the truth of what is going on is that they are the ones who are willing to let people suffer in order to deny him what amounts to a small fraction of 1%, a fraction of 1% of the several trillion-dollar federal budget, which is basically a rounding error. this is the democrats showing themselves to be poor citizens of the united states. todd: one democrat up in this general neck of the woods new york area has decided that inste...

>> one dollar? >> one dollar? one dollar. >> that is not your question. you said one dollar. >> we know the house past two measures tonight. the president is not going to sign this so what do we do now? where does this go? >> we are stuck in the same place, a wall is a wall, the fence isnt a wall. it is just a stupid semantic game and this is both parties treating their political base like a bunch of suckers. you know the old saying about what you do with your political base, you treat them like...

>> a dollar? [laughter] $1? >> are you willing -- >> you said $1. thats not your question. you said $1. >> shannon: we know the house passed these measures. probably not going to pass the senate. even if it did, the president is not going to sign it. where does it go? >> we are stuck in the same place. its just a stupid semantic gam game. both parties treating their base like suckers. treat the political base like mushrooms. keep them in the dark and cover them with horse manure. its an info dec...