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But i think he just pushes forward. this message will be reflective of what he promised our american voters moving forward and he will do a good job with that. i want to hear more about security. >> neil: thank you, senator. >> thank you. >> neil: again, this is called a joint session of congress. a lot of people lose sight of that. the president wants to make it clear that he has an agenda. he wants to spell it out with the american people. some of the oddest coalitions are agreeing what he's attempting to do, including unions. richard trump does, the head of the aflcio, why he likes so far w...

Go after that. there's a big distinction between that and recreational marijuana. when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people. there's a federal law that we need to abide by in terms of the medical -- when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs. there's a big difference between medical marijuana, which states have a -- the states where it's allowed in accordance with the appropriates rider have set forth a process to administer and regulate that usage versus recreat...

I did want to follow up on the medical marijuana question. so if the federal government going to take some sort of action around this recreational marijuana in some states? >> that's a question for the department of justice. i believe you'll see greater enforcement of it. again, there's a big difference between the medical use which congress has during an appropriations rider in 2014 made very clear what the intent -- what their intent was in terms of how the department of justice would handle that issue. that's very different than the recreational use, which is something the department of jus...

And that's what they fear the most. >> neil: one of the things i noticed, one of the most applauding groups that have met with president trump in the first two weeks of his administration have been union leaders. teamsters. the aflcio officials and the like. it's all on his talk of opening up energy pipelines and the rest and saying these are jobs, these are our jobs. and yet this is the same president looking to reign in the type of stuff you addressed and continued to address in wisconsin and inspired nationally. how does he reconcile that or should he? >> oh, i think it works out. people fo...

>> doris put her finger on it. >> two weeks after barack obama was inaugurated and i'm sitting at the rnc thinking what do i do with this? i have a base that's dysfunctional and the message is all over the place. you have to figure out where you came from and where we came from was the desert. '06, '08. so the messaging is critical. right now those who are running for the chairmanship of the party don't have a galvanizing message. they don't have a way to animate the base. the base is going in one direction. >> right. the party leadership is standing still, and then those other democrats who a...