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Involved in every decision and every opinion that had his name on it, and every opinion that came through the court. whether he was the author or not, meaning even if it was an opinion assigned to another justice, he wanted to make sure that it was right. mark: i want to turn to something that's just occurred and that's this budget process and appropriation process in the united states congress. jim jordan has said that the congressman from ohio, and freedom caucus member, that they had 17 hours between the time a 2200-page bill, which had been written in secret by the leadership, was presente...

Dysfunctional a process we're utilizing to make sure that government runs. and, of course, i'm not for shutting down government. but coming up with a 2,000 page bill that we're expected to vote on in the senate, and, first of all, has to come out of the house, is a nutty way to proceed. i'm hopeful that the joint select committee on budget and appropriations on which i sit will perhaps be able to come up with a process that will stick so that we can have a budgeting and appropriation process that doesn't lead to brinksmanship, finger pointing and dysfunction. >> i can see by your grin you thin...

Clasping hands. and nobody's going to look at it. nobody's going to reform the spending. as a consequence wasteful spending is riddled throughout your government. only four times in four years have we done the appropriation process the way we're supposed to. recently they did a pentagon study. they audited a part of the pentagon. this partial audit shows that $800 million was misplaced or lost. just 800 million. i don't think they actually put it in a closet and burned it. but they can't find it. a while back they looked at some of the military expenditures and they had $29 billion worth of st...

>> would you say washington is not flexible? >> now you know why there is blame sort of being put on all sides and why all sides see some political value in this, because they have those clips that they can use. they can take it to their base and say, this is what the other side is doing to you to shut down the government, and they're using that as leverage to score some political points. one other thing is that republicans in the senate are unhappy with the idea of another cr. they've been passing crs for the last year, for the better part of the last year, and they're just exhausted. republi...

Mcconnell uses the so-called nuclear option saying look if we are going through the appropriation process we only have to get to 50. that decision will be on his shoulders. democrats want to spend money you have to cut somewhere folks. you can't keep spending $4.2 trillion in 2018. todd: one salary appears to be off the books appears to be andrew mccabe starting in 2018. new report out the fbi says trup russian collusion. my question for you this 17 months after relearned dossier. why would you brief members of the fbi before verifying the existence of collusion and really taint the entire fbi...