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Trump is buddy buddy with the people who surround him. they are the ones that are able to put articles in front of him, plant ideas and he listens to them and often echoes their ideas even on policy. >> one thing that would help solve the nation's aviation woes is passing a long-term faa authorization bill. he's been unsuccessful in doing that, as the republican congress has been for many years. >> just so wonderfully trump. that you have your guy there. >> he's trump's pilot. >> jonathan is very fair to this show. thank you for your time tonight. much more when we continue, including congress...

Folks. in your opinion, who are the biggest losers as this government remains shut down? >> right now everyone loses. i mean, there aren't any winners and there's a lot of confusion that's happening in washington. you could probably put most of the blame on president trump and chuck schumer, simply because they can't come to an agreement on a deal. but you also have to look at the democrats. they are trying to basically jam nonspending measures through chip which is an authorization bill and daca which is another nonspending measure into a spending bill. so a continuing resolution is simply a ...

Do recognize the background and experience and the uniqueness of the border. so i would not take whether or not i was in a meeting or not to be an indication of that. >> do you have anyone in the senate working with you publicly yet? >> they are aware of what we're doing, but let's focus on getting something through the house and then we'll see what senate can do, but start nar ro, get a smart solution, and build trust. the fact that we have a number of democrats and republicans that are willing to solve this problem, and it's a good sign for future conversations. let me ask you, how much mo...

Another temporary short-term funding deal. how difficult is that for folks at the pentagon to be planning militarily? >> well, it's an absolute recipe for disaster. you can't run the defense department that way. you can't do multiyear contracts. have you no new starts whatsoever. every year we lose billions of dollars as a result of it. and, here's the thing that they have got to do. while the congress has authorized and president trump has signed into law now an authorization bill of $700 billion for defense, that only authorizes the appropriators to decide how much of that they are going to ...

And i would tell you the fact that we're sitting here nine months later investigating it, they have been pretty darn successful. >> how would you rate the administration and the country's responses in terms of preventing something like this from happening in the future at -- how ready are we for virginia's election and 2018? what more needs to be done. >> i'll let mark address virginia but let me just say this. our role is not to necessarily suggest here the things we need to do. our investigation should create a road map for committees of the proper jurisdiction to follow for states to follow...