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Certainly changed, rachel. we're talking about over $780 billion. we're talking about over 2,000 of our troops have been killed. we're talking about continuing with a failed policy. and the american people are war weary. certainly we understand the importance of our national security and want to make sure that we protect ourselves from terrorist attacks. but you don't continue down the same path and create more havoc and create more war if you are attempting to find peace. so i think the american people would have breathed a sigh of relief if the president had said we're going to come up with ...

Significant cuts to medicaid. do you think these revisions will improve the chances of republicans getting a bill passed? >> as you know if you help one side of the republican contingent, you're going to hurt the other side. so the fact that they're not going to repeal the tax cut is going to get the conservatives all up in arms. the fact they're adding money for opioids is going to get the conservatives all up in arms. the fact that they're still cutting $780 billion worth of medicaid is going to get the more moderates all up in arms. this is not going to go anywhere. i'm not sure when they'r...

You will, non-politicians to go along with the need for the war. however, once we got into that war, and the first year we had him on "hard ball," university f pennsylvania. and i asked him about the war, and here you begin to see his sort of business sense, his chops as a businessman. he said, you know what, spending $780 billion on this war rather than infrastructure at home is going to hurt the president down the road politically. let's watch him say that. >> i think his bigger problem is going to be what's happening in iraq. i believe the economy is doing well, i think it could get better,...

>> i don't think he will. he's a committed guy, he's committed to that whole situation, and i don't think he really will reconsider. i don't think he probably can at this point. other people will, and you'll find out at the polls whether or not those other people are right. you see more and more doves if you call them doves. the question is whether we should have been in iraq in the first place. i don't think this president can do anything about that. he's on a course that has to stay. >> what's the economic impact? is it the cost factor of about 100 billion a year for the infrastructure rebui...

Government isn't sending anybody anywhere. people are coming here to work. if you look at the contributions that immigrants make to this country, particularly when you look at them from an entrepreneurial perspective, consider that one out of every five new companies that started in this country is started by an immigrants one out of every 10 american workers is employed by an immigrant-owned company. as we stand immigrant owned companies contributed over $780 billion to american economy and the facts go on. i think the facts speak for themselves. it is concerning i see an element of the repub...