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Entire republican caucus in senate is meeting three time as week and twice a week for the subgroup thats working on this. >> the big ticket items that theyve met on havent been accomplish and completed. were talking health care and tax reform. >> right. but if you go back to previous administrations, clinton didnt get his health care ever and obama was a year plus in when he passed his bill. reagans tax cut was around september. and tax reform was a year and a half in the making. so we will see....

This major insurer in ohio to pull out. that leaves 20 of 88 counties with no insurance to go to or turn to. mark meadows, freedom caucus said we believe we need to stay through august to get through tax reform and get our appropriations done. that would mean you blow off the august recess. do you see any congress taking that action? >> bill, you know youve been a reporter for a long time. washington, d.c. in august is about the seventh plain of hell and everyone wants to get out of here. that s...

Travel after what he calls "a total failure" to do so. the pledge to reform air traffic control and the system is one of many items congress is taking up as they come back into session. mike emanuel takes a look at some of the big ticket items on the to-do list. >> launching a week focusing on improving info structure, president trump started with updating air traffic control. wants to create a self funding organization to modernize tracking aviation. >> americans can look forward to cheaper, fa...

Traffic control system is incredibly out of date. >> this is a technology. if you go to other countries, toronto, heathrow, hong kong, its all done electronically. they are modern systems. >> senate democratic leader blast of the proposal. >> if air traffic control is privatized, where are the protections for consumers? what will prevent costs of flying from going way up? under a private system, what stops airlines from raising fees and taxes on consumers? >> congress is returning with big ticke...

Promising cheaper, faster air travel after what he calls "a total failure" to do so. the pledge to reform air traffic control and the system is one of many items congress is taking up as they come back into session. mike emanuel takes a look at some of the big ticket items on the to-do list. >> launching a week focusing on improving info structure, president trump started with updating air traffic control. wants to create a self funding organization to modernize tracking aviation. >> americans c...

Schuster noted the american air traffic control system is incredibly out of date. >> this is a technology. if you go to other countries, toronto, heathrow, hong kong, its all done electronically. they are modern systems. >> senate democratic leader blast of the proposal. >> if air traffic control is privatized, where are the protections for consumers? what will prevent costs of flying from going way up? under a private system, what stops airlines from raising fees and taxes on consumers? >> cong...

Certainly doing nothing to help out the process given that he just wants to spend more money on health care. thats really what republicans in the senate want i think. >> which again is baffling at how inconsistent it is that now hes talking about lets just spend more money on health care after, you know, the only way he got things through the house is by slash iing billions of dolla in health care spending. if youre on capitol hill and youre a republican right now, youre panicked because you hav...

Responsible for. so that keeps churning and washington doesnt work well. the fact that washington doesnt work well on his agenda means hes running out of time to get big ticket items done. so if no momentum on health care in the senate and there appears not to be, then that becomes a big promise thats unfulfilled and gets in the way of if you cant get that particular deal can you get a budget deal. and without that can you do meaningful tax reform. it all becomes a real problem and you have more...

Mick mulvaney of crafting a budget that is "morally bankrupt,," he fired right back. >> right now, my unborn grandchildren are paying for it and i think that is morally bankrupt. >> congress has little time to tackle all these big ticket items. it has this week off, another week off for the fourth of july, and a six week august recess ending september 4th, with only weeks to go before the fiscal weeks and after that. >> sandra: journeyman ill of a representative sean duffy and isaac wright come ...

Right back. >> right now, my unborn grandchildren are paying for it and i think that is morally bankrupt. >> congress has little time to tackle all these big ticket items. it has this week off, another week off for the fourth of july, and a six week august recess h ending september 4th, with only weeks to go before the fiscal year ends after that. >> sandra: joining me now, representative sean duffy and isaac wright, democratic strategist. good to see you both. >> good to be here. >> sandra: i w...