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So many people behind. the economy wasnt working for working people. >> if you look at the similarities you have two big spending presidents that felt they could just apply their world view and make peoples lives better whether it was standarding wars i war -- starts in the middle east or having massive spending programs. that made peoples lives worse. it made it harder to start a business and for a lot of people dropout of the work force entirely. you had employment numbers going up. you had a ...

Involved. the states. obviously, this is an issue both parties agree on here. they are in a tough spot. >> its irony here because when this president came in, there was a palpable sense on the democratic side there could be maybe some progress on a big shovel ready infrastructure project because he sold himself as a populist. and republicans actually were worried that he might work around them and cut a deal. instead he went the more traditional route of tax cuts which turbo charged the debt and...

And he said they had forwarded recommendations to the administration about offsets that came out of mandatory spending programs. looking at things like entitlements. they are going to want that money paid for if theres going to be a discussion of broader infrastructure. >> bret: speaker of the house is a former vice presidential nominee who campaigned in front of the national debt clock. >> you heard john thune say something really different than what the president is talking about. >> that seem...

And he just sort of threw dianne feinstein under the bus. >> dont tweet. you have a lot of momentum from yesterday. its actually substantive issues that are dealing with immigration, that are dealing ultimately with spending programs, the democrats have held back agreement on because theyre waiting to use daca as leverage. you have all of that momentum, positive stuff, keep the story on productive things that washington can do, in governing the united states. >> shepard: john roberts tried to ge...

The whole infrastructure discussion. >> many smart people think were 20 years behind on the power grid. we have been promised for a long time wii by politicians, not just on that, on the airports, the roads, the bridges, on the schools. i read a heartbreaking story, in classes, didnt have heaters in some classes. >> gary. >> let me-- its about time that something gets done. politicians need to get onto these essential things for the future growth of in country today. >> but, gary, lets not get c...

For opioid abuse. they havent spent what we appropriated last year. they cant figure out where to spend the money. this is crazy. if we separate the bills, honor our promise and repeal obamacare. its very complicated to fix it. lets repeal it. >> neil: when would you work on that part? its obvious that this broad-based support, unanimous among republicans for repealing it. but waiting a long time to find a replacement and going on to taxes could be problematic, too. >> i think you can do it conc...

Republican party ultimately happy with that. >> martha: are you saying that you could basically pass this repeal bill that would kind of denying democrats and also some of the moderates in your own party from the opportunity to retain the parts of obamacare tt you dont like? >> no, they would get it in a separate bill, is what i am saying. there will be a repeal bill that i think everyone could vote for. it will repeal a certain amount of taxes and regulations, and read also use a medicaid refor...

Look at the numbers in these polls an what we heard about panelists who talk about getting more involved because we need to have that activist core to get things done because the government isnt getting anything done, the government meaning actual members of congress, not what government does, which they seem to be separating from what congress is. >> there is also an issue here, people and programs that benefit for them but dont like spending programs in the abstract. they always imagine it goi...

To pay more for value instead of justin quantity of care and start making gradual changes to these large spending programs that are driving the entire budget. elizabeth: when he talks about the proposals on making some of those cuts to nondiscretionary, and they turn out to be unpopular with people who are affected, and sometimes those are his base, how does he walk that fine line in still making those certain cuts, getting rid of some of the waste but keeping his base happy? and some of those p...

Same freedom caucus is going to raise the alarm about not increasing the deficit so theyre going to want to see big cuts in spending somewhere, and there are many constituencies throughout the country that are going to rise up and try to protect those spending programs. its going to be very difficult to get big policy changes done. >> i guess a crucial question is whether the president still trusts speaker ryan. >> well, he does, most certainly and i think you saw that yesterday when they were a...