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Or. we need to really be listening and hearing and working with african-american women who have been the back bone of the democratic party. this is not an either/or situation. this is and. we have to do both better. >> all right. thanks to both of you for joining us. thank you. some news today from capitol hill. the republican congresswoman, she represents a district from florida. she caught washington by surprise announcing she will be retiring at the end of her term. she is from a heavily democratic district in the previous detention race. and her retirement. a big opportunity for democrat...

Qualified, we're going do succeed in getting it done. >> let me turn your attention to tax reform real quick. there's a report out there that says the president had basically gone back to the drawing board as it relates to taxes. is that accurate or does he still -- what he put out there on the campaign trail, is that still the back bone of what he wants to get done? >> that's the back bone. i think what you're seeing is us going through the process. his economic team. everyone from secretary mnuchin, secretary ross, gary cohen and others sitting down internally and beginning that process of m...

They have an older, reliable russian air-to-ground bomber. it's the back bone of the syrian air-to-ground effort. they've got a lot of them and they fly them every day. and this base here is a very great location because they can get from this base up into that idlib province. after the fall of aleppo, almost all of the bombing shifted. it doesn't surprise me at all this was the base used to launch this attack the other day. so you've got two squadrons there and also your administrative area, your refueling area, armament area and all that. it's kind of isolated. there are only a couple of sma...

Talking big about his infrastructure plan. >> -- the back bone of america, with the talent in this room, we can build any city at anytime, and we can build it better than anyone. but we're going to do even better than that, together, we are going to rebuild our nation. >> now, we're not anywhere close to an an infrastructure plan. we'll come back to that in a minute. 76 days in, i applaud him trying to stay optimistic, i think you have to do that but this administration at the moment has zero big legislative wins because of disaster in health care. there's some efforts apparently to reboot tha...

Detectors placed throughout the city, active shooter training for officers and intelligence analysis which is key to preventing another terrorist attack. >> under the president's proposal nearly all federal funding to the nypd would be irradiated. this is critical and back bone of our entire counterterrorism apparatus. >> new york city is directly in the cross hairs of this budget proposal. the people of our city, their lives would be hurt by it. >> security experts say new york city is the nation's top terror target. one estimate shows since 2002, the city has been targeted by more than 20 to...