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The country is $22 trillion in debt. another trillion and a half dollars in debt added by the tax cut. theres not the money for this. and theres certainly no appetite in a republican congress to put price controls over prescription drugs, to spend a trillion and a half dollars on infrastructure or to make the type of investments in workforce training that he described last night. theres just no political will on the majority side to do any of those things. >> but to brendans point, we are at a g...

>> hes taking us in the opposite direction. >> he walked out of tpp, the trade pact between 12 pacific rim nations. he said well renegotiate it, it will be better. hes had a year. >> china, japan, canada. >> the other 11 countries renegotiated without us. now if we ever want back in, the terms are worse for us. and what we have heard from japan is, we would love to have you guys back in, we have no idea what your strategy is, what your asks are , where you are on this. >> steve schmidt, the pres...

About that again, whos this tweet for? >> reporter: well, house democrats do not want to shut down the government. this is a tweet designed to allow people in the freedom caucus, conservatives, folks who might push back against this cr to vote for it instead and call it a win. to say, look, were standing with the president. were voting for this cr so we can stand with the president. it is designed to allow conservatives to take a vote they dont like, call it a win, and get on a plane. >> garrett...

Race relations. but the overwhelm mag jort, 52%, disapprove. where do you think the president is going wrong? how does he get it wrong? >> the president has gotten it wrong o from day one. and this just speaks volumes to the american people. they understand it. they get it. he led his campaign actually based on him being the leader of the birther movement saying that president obama was not an american. and he really tried to delegitimatize the first african-american president. when you look at ...

They have to have something theyve done. >> go ahead, david. >> i want to make a larger point. what were talking about is important, but its still small, still tactical. were in the middle of covering and analyzing the daily fights of a pugilistic administration thats populist, where theres no ideological center and no real vision for where you take the country domestically or internationally. republicans and democrats have to think beyond the day to day about whats urgent and whats important. i...

Represented. but i do feel and i say this as somebody who spent longer in business, i was an entrepreneur, ceo of a major enterprise, i do feel that many americans are actually giving up on our system, and i would argue, as somebody whos been blessed to do well, that modern american capitalism, with its focus on short ternlism, quarterly earnings over long-term value creation is not working for enough people. and i think, as your column pointed out, the country is actually very supportive of dem...

Somebody who spent longer in business, i was an entrepreneur, ceo of a major enterprise, i do feel that many americans are actually giving up on our system, and i would argue as somebody whos been blessed to do well, that modern american capitalism, with its focus on short-term earnings over long-term value is not working for enough people. as your column pointed out, the country is actually very supportive about issues like increasing the minimum wage and more investment in workforce training, ...

But second of all, every time he sends one of these tweets, right when we perhaps could be working on infrastructure, actually changes to the affordable care act, that would make sense to the people of this country, we could be doing something on workforce training, hes been doing a bit of work in these areas, but every time he sends one of these tweets, four of them on friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., he squanders another opportunity to govern. >> i want to ask you aboutcuba. i know youv bee...

We had the secretary of education wilbur. >> mick mulvaney was there. >> thinking about how to ensure everyones working collectively with these goals in mind. >> secretary ross, are there ways to incentivize the private sector to further their investment in workforce training? many of them have taken a leadership role on this already. >> the big corporations seem to be finding a pretty good way to do it. if you have a large number of employment needs you can partner with local community college ...

Going to listen to us, he will stop regulating us, stop telling us how to do our jobs, also, he will give us the authority to bring got dollars back to our stated make and spend the dollars better than the federal government. i can be way more efficient with health care dollars and other dollars than the federal government. >> sandra: do you have any concerns about the way other governors are going to interpret this? >> i think everybody will take advantage of it for the benefit of their citizen...