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>> it is paul ryan's first full week as speaker of the house and already he's facing his first big test. today the house starts consideration of a giant six-year, $325 billion highway and infrastructure bill. this is a bill that has faced a notoriously bumpy road in the past. consider the number 35. that's the number of times the existing highway program has been temporarily extended since 2009. most recently just last week. the current extension runs until november 20th, putting a countdown clock on efforts to find agreement. even though it can be a primary source of well paying jobs and can ...

Worldwide. we'll need that. >> i think if people throttle back a little bit on the verbiage and the emotion and practice the zen of negotiations, if you will -- >> i like that. >> say hey look, here their numbers, the math doesn't lie. if you need a -- -- to deal with past wrongs, fine, but in the groce situation, they owed over $325 billion on july 4th. they had a referendum on the 5th, and july 6th they owed over $325 billion. the math doesn't change but the process needs to address the objective truth and move forward, and that's what is really key whether it's greece or anyplace else you h...

Clinton had a very similar message about putin yesterday, so i want to play that. >> he is highly intelligent, deeply, deeply patriotic in terms of russia, but he sees it more in terms of the greatness of the state and the country than what happens to ordinary russians. >> what's going to be the change agent here, david? is it going to be the oligarchs, that the pressure gets put on them, that they're going to consequently put the pressure on him? how do you see this working through? >> right now, the change, there's no change agent in russia. this is hugely popular. he got standing ovation to...

Congressman, great to see you as always. i'm so excited you came on because i know you know so much about this. so obviously -- >> great to see you and welcome back. >> thank you. it's great to be back. great to talk about stuff like this. so, all right. you obviously heard, you know, paul ryan there asking the cbo director about lowering economic growth. he said it would lower economic growth. in that report the cbo says the amount of work done would drop 2%. that's not saying the same thing as economic output would drop 2%. it might drop less. just to make the point how significant that is, ...

2%. it might drop less. just to make the point how significant that is, if you took 2% of the economic output of the united states, that's $325 billion a year. that is a lot of money. >> well, of course, erin, as dr. almendor pointed out, he wasn't putting a dollar value on the ability of somebody to spend a little bit more time at home with kids or ability of somebody to leave the job of the large employer and take the risk of starting up an entrepreneurial business of their own, number one. number two, if you look at the affordable care act in its full context, dr. almendor also said that be...