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Moos. >> reporter: feast your eyes on a fast food feast where you can wipe remnants of a fast food burger off your mouth with a white house napkin. members of the clemson tigers were spotted balancing several somethings and sniffing at other things, and guess who picked up the tab? >> paid for by me. >> reporter: quarter pounders by candlelight. naturally the president got a makeover as the ham burglar and ronald mcdonald. what would lincoln think about white house gravy boats being used to hold...

This case and they will always bring to it the ninth circuit. you never know what will come out of the ninth circuit. you never know what will come out on appeal. fortunately we have the supreme court that has treated us very fairly. so id rather not do it. this is something that congress should do. this is something that the democrats should do. i dont want to give an easy way out of somethings that simple as this. not only simple, its easy and its going to -- you know, we have a country that i...

Important than either of us. you want your teens and 20-somethings, whether they are democrat or republican to want to do these jobs. you dont want the people that just want to do it. you want to encourage people to do it. >> and one important thing ill not miss are the constant questions from reporters like you about the latest tweet. >> i bet. congressman costello and curbelo, thank you both so much. thanks for being such great friends of ours over the last year. just ahead, the nbc news cap...

Hitting your quarterly fund-raising numbers. i wont miss the identity politics permeating the us versus them mentality. and if you vote yes instead noef then you voted to do all these terrible things and people try to personalize things in a way thats not healthy. its not going to incent vise good people to want to get into government and thats more important than either of us. you want your teens and 20-somethings, whether they are democrat or republican to want to do these jobs. you dont want ...

We were all paying probably about $354 a month for that. those two houses are now worth $1.5 million to $2 million. you know what they dont do? they dont rent to 20-somethings. now youve got the financial pressures of trying to come up with $2,000 a month. if youre a member, youre making $174,000. thats true. but what if you live in new york and youve got to maintain a residence there? all of the sudden, youre at 2,000, 3,000 there. and all of the sunday, yodden, housing costs are destroying you...

Advantage? because i know you covered this. you know a lot of staffers. whats the advantage of having staffers on the hill who know how the system works and have been there for a long time instead of a revolving door of 20 somethings coming in and out? >> it empowers all of us, it empowers the taxpayers, the constituents for that member. that member of congress has somebody whos worked on the hill for ten or 15 years as opposed to somebody whos only there two or three years, then they can talk t...

Has just created and it has stayed that way now for almost ten years. so its just created an overall flat line in the staff pay. so youre paying $50,000 is the median salary now. ten years ago, it was $47,000 and change. thats been almost no increase in staff pay as the cost of living here has probably doubled. so how are you? what are you going to do? what you end up seeing, theyve got stats now, these legistorms show the percentage of 20 and 30 somethings on the hill is going down and 20 somet...

The year! jason, tiffany and e.j. are back with me. e.j. dionne, who won the year. >> youre going to tell us that ed koch won the year? >> i want to hear that. >> tease. tease. >> no, the clear winners of the year were the grassroots activists who from the day donald trump was inaugust gaur rated started organizing in their neighborhoods, precincts, ee sbegsly important in places where they were in a minority to protect our democracy. were talking about the mothers and the veterans, students and...

Help candidate trump in is russia trying to under mine our society any way they can. we need to understand that and somethings that to be dont about it. next time it could be a democrat candidate theyre supporting, everyone loses when an intelligence service is prevadipreva prevading our homes and laptops. >> a couple things jump out here. first it is that lawmakers on capitol hill are pretty unsettled. they feel like they only scratched the surface. it is not just football, it was papal, and re...

Million to help farmers expand into foreign markets, also keeps farmer safety nets including crop insurance and subsidies in case crop prices drop. allocates $2.5 billion into research into somethings like organic farming and pest control and new addition to the farm bill this year, legalization of hemp which was pushed by majority leader mitch mcconnell. that provision would remove hemp from the list of controlled substances. here he is signing the provision with his fancy hemp pen. but the pro...