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Mattered, he's probably thinking why aren't we talking more about puerto rico where americans are in real trouble. they could use the federal government and a leader of the federal government who is focused on their problems every sing minute. instead we're talking about the nfl. this is a matter of priorities in addition to the right and wrong of what the president is saying, and i think president trump is wrong. his priorities are out of whack. >> it's right behind you. it's called "thanks obama." it's by david litt. >> thank you so much. n you repeg you just said? my livestream won't load. ...

A comedian goes after them. i know you can't speak for the former president, but it was your job to channel him. what do you think he thinks of all this? >> i think more than anything, if i had to guess, knowing president obama and the way he focused on the important issues and managed to exclude other stuff because he was lasered in on the stuff that really mattered, he's probably thinking why aren't we talking more about puerto rico where americans are in real trouble. they could use the federal government and a leader of the federal government who is focused on their problems every sing min...

Ago when she got to congress and she's used it every single year that a house -- a republican administration has trotted out a budget, every year that the republicans in the house trotted out a budget. it's old talking points. it's not constructive. there's really good ideas in there that i think the democrats could focus on as a place to get together. for example, the commitment we make on apprenticeship training. the commitments on expanding school choice. why aren't we talking about the things in the budget the democrats might support instead of having them pull out the same speeches that t...

Fact that he doesn't get into the details on what's happening here on capitol hill is all part of, i think, the story of the trump administration. >> all right. well, let's talk about health care. the president of the united states has said let obamacare fail. obamacare, affordable health care act, that's what we currently have in this country. is there anything democrats can do to stop republicans from folding their hands and saying, yep, let's let it fail, because that's the health of the american people. >> oh, absolutely. and we saw with chairman alexander now calling hearings on the affor...

You wrote about -- >> perhaps because he is. >> well, what is the consequence, though, both for our politics and for the legal pursuit of something resembling the truth in terms of russia's role in our election? i mean, this is all still about an american adversary, what's so depressing to me is we're -- people like me who are not lawyers are trying -- i'm googling "obstruction of justice." why aren't we talking about what russia did in america and other western democracies? >> there's so much else going on. it's very, very serious, nicolle. we lose sight of this within you have untruths seepi...