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These obscure paper work rules to go after election violations, how could that affect anyone who worked in american with these russians. >> i think they can be indicted for the exact same things, they could be indicted for conspiring with these russians. the fact that theres only one american indicted today doesnt mean that there arent going to be more americans indicted. youve got this microtargeting that was done by the russians, to suppress the clinton vote. how did they know who to target? i...

>> labor participation season as high as it should be. unemployment is low but a lot of people have dropped out of the work force. you see theres still too many people who are not unemployed but theyre not working. thats what we have to be paying attention to. people are at the margins who have lost skills are usually middle age. theyre in small town america. sre to have better policies that can give incentives for companies. >> dana: the administration and the republicans are thinking ab pushin...

Not expected to look like this. nevertheless, reported cuts in social safety programs, social net programs including allowing states to get tough, more work rules on people on medicaid as this budget terms it able bodied americans would be required to work. thats going to be up to states, many red states around the country would follow up on that. in the meantime, other social safety net programs on the chopping block here inchugd s.n.a.p., c.h.i.p. and ssdi, disable insurance. there are been se...

What do you think? >> well, don, she went through a lot. and, of course, she shouldnt take the money and sign her rights away. what she and more importantly her young baby witnessed was horrific. and none of us should have to go through. that really, its, you know, kind of like they were terrorized on that flight. and frankly, weve all been terrorized watching it. weve all been in those seats and have endured a system that is under tremendous stress. the planes are all full. there is tremendous ...

And really its you know its kind of like they were troez terrorized frankly weve all been terrorized because we have a system under tremendous stress. its its -- the planes are all full. there is tremendous on the crews to push back on time. they are -- their work rules are are difficult. the pay is low. and there is very little knowledge or forethought for the paying customer. its about pushing tin. thats the term they use, pushing the tin and the customers gets lost. >> miles, attorneys for th...

There are still some questions here, the speaker again planning to put this on the floor on thursday, but the senate is still a huge question mark. we know its going to go through major changes there as well. so even though theres all these behind the scenes dealmaking and policy back and forth, its likely not going to stand up for very long. there are members concerned about that as well. craig? >> two quick questions here, will there be a new cbo score before this thursday vote, this possible ...

Overwhelmingly against this. he wants to satisfy his far left environmental extremist base. i think thats unfortunate. >> weve seen him satisfying his base in different ways, whether it be regulations on coal mining, the monuments, changing the minimum wage work rules, those kind of things in his last three weeks. what makes this different is the antiquities act allows a president to designate something a national monument or national park and then its done. its not like the next president can j...

Federal government has reached way too much into how we run our businesses and how we make decisions and what decisions we have to make. >> so if you had to focus on sort of the top three that you want to change that will help small businesses, what would they be? >> well, i think that one of them is work rules. it seems that we now have to worry about overtime, we have to worry about minimum wage, we have to worry about a lot of other things that dont really go to the heart of running our busin...

Small businesses, what would they be? >> well, i think that one of them is work rules. it seems that we now have to worry about overtime, we have to worry about minimum wage, we have to worry about a lot of other things that dont really go to the heart of running our business. and i think that those, all of those work rules have been a burden on the small business. the others, i think, are more along the lines of specific to different industries. and not any one in particular, just the huge weig...