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This is how economies fail. >> youre right. >> and we have no plan for the future. >> now wait -- >> -- and china has a 25 plan and we have no plan. tax cuts, policy, the trump administration is thinking about are negative and these tax cuts are not going to propel us into the next decade. its a nice band aid. >> to stephens point, you know, he brought up the whole continuing of the economys heading into a positive direction. how much credit does president trump get versus president obama? i mea...

Somehow amazon is costing the postal service money. if anything, its keeping the postal service afloat. >> to stephens point about the "washington post," brad is this more personal for the president? stephens calling it propaganda. im not sure if thats a fair assessment. but jeff bezos also owns "the washington post" and happens to be the richest man on the planet. could these be factors fueling the reason the president has decide to target amazon? >> i wouldnt call it propaganda either but ever...

When i get there. >> ted: he has crushing the status quo. >> eboni: i dont think anyone is upset about the disrupter mentality. i think even those that didnt vote for him like that part about him but to stephens point, what you do tweet matters. i dont think its bad to use twitter. it could be a great tool. sometimes you have to live and die by the content of your tweet. something is good and positive and can bolster your message. >> eric: he said its a witch hunt, and is. >> ted: >> stephen: wh...

Elections, a weakened nato would play exactly into the arms of russia and what russia has been trying to do in influencing elections throughout the western world over the last few months. >> interesting. and so you know, ron brownstein, so this commonality of this sentiment of nato between a donald trump and even marine le pen, on a stage now where were talking about strained relations particularly between russia and the u.s., how do you see these parallels? i guess potentially rather precarious...

>> deray you wanted to speak to stephens point that its too expensive and that officers are not discriminating. >> to get to a consent decree there has to have been a proving of a pattern of practice. its like police officers, you cant pistol whip people. if the officers were not doing it, there wouldnt be a need for it. weve seen it in cleveland and cities across the country. its sort of laughable to hear a police union official sort of say there is no proof of it. the only way we got to a cons...

Mismanaged the police departments across this country for decades. theyve reduced budgets. 17 years in a row in the city of cleveland. they reduced spending. we dont have the cars. we dont have the computers in the cars. we want to go to training. ill go to as much training as you can. if you put two police cars in every zone in the city of cleveland, we will have and we will get back to community engaged policing, which is what we all want. so those are -- >> sir, now im going to pause. i have ...

This program which was, true, though, the senate investigation hasnt really begun. theyre still talking with the intelligence agencies about what they would investigate, about what documents they would ask for, what information they would get and the important thing there is its so very, very, very early, which means if there is a serious investigation, its going to be a very long drip, drip, drip for the white house. >>en the senate side, susan collins said we have to be careful about creating ...

>> yeah. i mean, i think that republicans on capitol hill this week, i was up there a lot, they do, i think -- they were heartened by the idea that the president was willing to make cuts to social security. and just to stephens point, there are a bunch of concessions in the budget. you know, theres the social security cuts. the president undid a lot of the sequester cuts to defense. and hes interested in doing corporate tax reform, which is something the republicans want. yes, maybe it doesnt go...

On the republican side that, hey, he hasnt taken a step forward, its not a huge step forward, i know, butt its a step forward. >> nancy, the last word on the budget. >> i mean, i think that republicans on capitol hill this week, i was up there a lot, they do, i think -- they were heartened by the idea that the president was willing to make cuts to social security. and just to stephens point, there are a bunch of concessions in the budget. you know, theres the social security cuts. the president ...

Why are people still skittish? i guess stephens point that many americans, probably half, are not invested in the stock market, but why is everyone not feeling this is an opportunity? >> so you have this amazing mix of excitement and anxiety. excitement because the stock market has done well, 401(k)s have done well, but anxiety because people have a sense its artificial. its artificial because its not being validated by the economic numbers and the employment numbers speak to that. what is it is...