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Act together. >> another way to look at it is the extent there is a shut down and federal workers aren't working. they get paid for not working when they get the back pay. there's some benefit for not doing the work on the job and getting the money for not having to work. with the respect to the 27th amendment i'm willing to consider anything. that's an option we could look at in the house and senate. you have hit me kind of off guard. i haven't to have the cascading effects might be from the suggestion you make. i'm certainly more than happy to consider it. if we can get some movement in that...

The 95 million people out there that aren't working. >> 96 million really wanting pay job and they can't get. the real number. >> that real number is 95 million and it's americans out of the workforce. 95 million american out of the workforce. it's a number that hasn't budged a bit in the last year. who are these people? about half are retired, 44.5 million. they're not looking for a job. they're required because they most likely want to be. most of the remain 50 million are either in school, taking care of a loved one or physically unable to work. what about the rest. 1.6 million have looked ...

First year for him on that front. low unemployment, booming stock market. but there is one stsk he used to mention all the time. >> 94 million americans are out of the labor force. the 95 million people out there that aren't working. 96 million really wanting a job and they can't get. you know that story, the real number. >> that real number is 95 million people. it's the number of americans out of the workforce. it's a number that hasn't budged at all even as the jobless rate has gone down to a 17 year low. who are all these people? the number can be misleading. it's not as 95 million people ...

Decade or eight years since republicans took control. this is something that they talked about a lot in the house and the senate when they had a democrat in the white house. and now with the republican in the white house, there are lots of -- they have the ability to put a lot of these policies into place which is what we're seeing right now. >> the white house has said among other things that this is about getting people back to work, getting people to work. the kaiser family foundation conducted a study recently and found that nearly 60% of those who are on medicaid, nearly 60%, actually are...

>> you ignore the book. you don't have something that's partially right and partially wrong right on fact checking. she is a good reporter but for those of us who are not in the white house and reporting day-to-day, you don't know what to make sense of a book like this. my best message to steve bannon would be go away. you've hurt your brand, stay away. >> bill: last comment from you, david. the question is thus. doug schoen's argument, ignore it. can this white house do that? >> exactly ignore it. let's keep in mind many of these alleged comments are from individuals who aren't working in the...