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Social security, read from senator scotts proposal. read from the proposal from the senator from wisconsin. they were offended, liar, liar! by the way, the last person who said that on the floor of the senate got censored by the congress, but there were about four, five, i dont know how many. i reminded them that floridas own rick scott is the guy who ran the senate campaign committee for republicans last year, had a plan to sunset -- maybe hes changed his mind. maybe hes seen the lord. but he w...

Plans. the committee for a responsible federal budget says some set provisions in that bill could mask the true cost which is more like five or five and half trillion dollars. >> that is just over this decade and then it would be more. ive read "the wall street journal" editorial, absolutely fascinating, because it is one of the things that they do in washington where you start a program, but you started two years after tommy started in 2023, or you sunset it in 2025 with the full assumption tha...

The filibuster -- >> you can legitimately do that because its a budget item. if republicans dont do that, frankly, there are no more excuses for republicans. i think thats one of the things that helped trump get elected is republicans have been saying give me the house and well do this, then they said we dont have the senate, we got the senate, oh, we dont have the white house. there are no more excuses. >> what about the 20 million people who are enrolled in obamacare? if its repealed on mr. tr...

I think -- >> here they come. you see donald trump -- let me interrupt for a moment. you see donald trump waving over there. hes walking down those stairs. he will get into one of those vehicles in the motorcade with melania trump and others and they will head over to the white house as i said. shouldnt take more than ten minutes to drive from reagan national airport over to the white house. there will be, i just want to remind our viewers, at the end of the meeting in the oval office, cameras w...

Already here. >> the beginning of this discussion has to be to stop it, to control our borders and respect our heritage of immigration by creating a program where people can come and go legally. a number of people who are living and working here now would like to be on a guest worker program so they can go home. thats the way it was traditionally in america. >> i think most people would agree with that, right? democrat and republican. im talking about the 11 million people who are here, who are ...

The things he may have said and done while he was running for the republican presidential nomination, while he was running for president of the united states, he did and said a lot of those things because he thought it would get him a lot of votes. clearly it did get him a lot of votes. now that hes president-elect of the united states and within a mart of a few weeks, he will be president of the united states, he will see it differently and he may not necessarily govern as he campaigned. is tha...

Right, when president obama sits down with president-elect trump. >> yeah. its going to be quite a meeting. these two have said pretty nasty things about each other for quite awhile now. but the president has prided himself all along on not having bumps in the road. no drama obama. that was his slogan. i think hes determined to stick to that in this transition, that he wants it to be smooth, he wants it to be seamless. hes told his aides and advisers that they need to be ready to turn over power...

Donald trump but also for republicans to try to figure out what comes next. >> all right. jim acosta is also standing by at the white house. we know mr. trump has had a contentious relationship with the press and it kind of makes you wonder what the relationship will be like come january, jim. >> reporter: yeah. yeah, carol, the way i have been describing it, its sort of like we discovered a new species in the animal kingdom. we do not know what kind of president donald trump will be. what we ha...

This divided, wolf? >> yes. the country has been divided on many occasions in our more than 200 year history. there have been major problems. of course, the civil war. the vietnam war, that deeply dided the country. theres a moment now where the president of the united states and the president-elect and we are about to see it, they can take that first initial step in healing. i know president obama wants to do for donald trump, the president-elect, what president bush did for him during that tra...

Mitch mcconnell say sure, i will help you push through term limits in congress. >> back in the 90s, it was okay, we will pass it but grandfather you in, then you can serve two more terms after we pass it. you would have to do something to accommodate folks who have been there and been planning on it. but i like the idea and i dont know if you can get enough support in congress or not to do it, but about 70% or more of americans think its a good idea. so thats a good start. >> that is a good star...