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Sane is good. thanks for being on the show. >> thanks, chairman. >> sane helps. joe? >> it does. it does. except in my case. so, david ignatius, i want to -- lets talk about the third rail of american politics. it used to be said that social security is a third rail of american politics. its not anymore. hillary care, as republicans called it in 93, led to massive republican wins in 94. obamacare led to massive republican wins in 2010. now health care. it appears that the republicans misstep o...

Obamacare is still the law of the land. its not happening with the repeal. those were two of the three things he said he would get done in year one. the only thing left that is possible is tax reform yet the president didnt have a big influence on the bill. he tried to question speaker paul ryan being diplomatic about the presidents involvement. if anyone else was president, this would have dropped the top rate. thats republican philosophy. this this were a week ago, this tax plan would have had...

The manafort and gates indictments were, as mark suggested, they didnt have anything to do with donald trump. now granted he had done all these things before donald trump named him the chairman of his campaign and he was obviously engaged in all of this allegedly criminal activity over the course of their decades long personal relationship but can you speak to sort of the difference between the third rail with papadopoulos. obviously it did insight deep passions among the people around our table...

Saying that donald trump is a threat to the republic. this drum beat will not end and it eventually lands back in the house. no? >> thats right. and the house of representatives, republicans there, have to remember that it was their constituents much stronger and being anti-russia than democrats were until we got to donald trump so the idea that the republicans are going to then try and protect donald trump when what he did is collude with a hostile foreign power to try to interfere with the ele...

Was their constituents much stronger and being anti-russia than democrats were until we got to donald trump so the idea that the republicans are going to then try and protect donald trump when what he did is collude with a hostile foreign power to try to interfere with the election, given what russia wants to do to america and bringing it low, they have a hard time defending that and still maintaining that theyre patriots. >> absolutely. david corn, back to you for a moment. the attempt to sort ...

Painful and drastic cuts will have to be. >> the milestone is no surprise. its the result of the baby boom generation reaching retirement years, often described as an economic pig in a python. that analogy is flawed because it suggests that things will improve once the pig is passed. >> it doesnt. we have a smaller set of workers supporting a permanently larger set of retirees. >> social securitys unfunded liabilities now surpassed $34 trillion. on present course, it will become insolvent by 203...

Delegation was going to trump tower. they authorized it and greenlighted the talking points. that is direct evidence of collusion. >> jeremy, you often remind us that collusion in and of itself is not a crime. tell me why, if its not a crime, it is such an electrified third rail for donald trump? why is he tweeting about it on the same day that another fact is revealed in "the new york times" that simply makes it more obvious, makes it more clear that collusion between the kremlin and the trump ...

>> bret: very true. as always, thank you. if social security is the third rail of american politics, the 401(k) has become almost as important. the baby boomers and others saving for retirement. that led president trump to quickly and forcefully denied today he has any plans to pay for proposed tax cuts by cutting the amount you can put in your fund tax free. speaking of money, the president is greasing the wheels on a big sale for a major american manufacturer and getting ready for his big trip...

Treatment of soldiers killed in battle and their families back home. it is a hot third rail, not just in american politics but in american values, american ethics. the george w. bush administration had also banned any public footage of soldiers remains being transferred home on flights from iraq and afghanistan at dover airbase. they said at the time it was somehow out of respect that they wouldnt allow anybody to see those dignified transfer ceremonies. but there was a really fierce fight at th...

Didnt have the same feeling about what the bush administration had just bumbled into them there and what hackworth discovered they were doing. who thought that was a good idea? you might have disbelieved it when you first heard the reporting. once you found out it was true, callousness and impersonal treatment of soldiers killed in battle and their families back home. it is a hot third rail, not just in american politics but in american values, american ethics. the george w. bush administration ...