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Because rates have ticked up. and if they go up even more, that will be a challenge for people who want to buy. >> is that why -- feels like housing supply is still a real problem. just people who want to go buy a house, there aren't a lot out there. >> that's right. and the supply and demand is central to housing. and so when supply is tight and then demand is high, that is what we're seeing right now. people want to be able to buy things, but the prices have ticked up. and then supply has shrunk. so we're in this sort of weird quagmire. >> we talk about the little bubble towns that have had ...

Of urgency. we need to now get to work, and pass this legislation. >> just quickly here, congresswoman, it seems like human infrastructure is now around 2 trillion, that's nonnegotiable for you? >> you know, when i look at it, there is a couple of things in that piece of legislation that we desperately need that is something is nonnegotiable is the state and local tax deduction cap, we have a huge affordability problem in new jersey and that is just another hit that unfair double taxation for our state, and then of course, child care, we are seeing this crisis, and these jobs numbers just pain...

Same, more jerry brown big government, more taxes and a crushing affordability problem. we can't continue down that road. we are going to get a lot of change in 2018. >> bret: esther cox, we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> bret: when we come back, his prime minister and entry-level job in italy? apparently so. feel the clarity of non-drowsy

To play in regard to housing. what is your worry? >> well, first, let me preface this by saying it's still a bull market on wall street and housing is remarkably strong. that's likely to continue at least through the first half of this year. but we have a problem in that median family home prices have soared over 52% the past six years. that's raising an affordability problem, at the same time we're seeing a number of excesses that are carrying those concerned -- parallel concerns that we saw in 2005. they relate to psychology, the risky mortgages and evaluations, all three areas. >> neil: i c...

Exchanges and the individual mandate was a republican idea that came out of a heritage foundation. it was hardly democratic idea we had to actually persuade the democrats it was a good way of doing it. it's always ironic that the republicans ran away from it the moment the democrats said all right, let's try your ideas. the second thing i would say is one of the ways i think donald trump could actually do better than obama if he was serious about it is this cost control and drug regulation pricing? and the crazy thing is, he's playing in the space of the exchanges and access which now many peo...