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>> happy new year, sarah. let me ask you about some other agenda items and i'll follow up with a question about the budge budget. infrastructure, welfare reform, border security, which of these is the primary focus in the early stages of 2018, or is this a buckshot approach and use them like going to go for them all and see which one you can stick the landing on first? >> secretary sanders: the president was elected because of his ambitious agenda and his desire to get a lot of things done grade we're going to focus on that and the things that you listed are certainly going to be big prioritie...

Americans. if we do this, i think we unlock the economy in a major way. >> bill: there is clearly pressure on leaders to get tax reform done. they are trying to deliver on a another major priority for the white house. instead of needing 60 votes, congress must finish up a budge budget. they are trying to find the right balance between moderate and conservative republicans. there's still work to be done on the house floor. some house conservatives are withholding support before they see what savings they can deliver for constituents. >> we want to open up the playbook a little more on the

Frankly, i've never seen anything like this kind of a phony estimate on growth in a budget in many decades of following this. you know, that 1% extra growth adds $2 trillion of revenue. that's funny money. it's not going to happen. >> so where do these numbers come from? how did they come up with this plan? >> they wanted to say a couple of things. they wanted to say the budget balance is in 10 years, and they wanted to cut taxes. they don't even include the tax cut in this budget. but if you didn't include these sort of draconian cuts and you didn't include -- >> don't they include the state ...

That's why we're holding a ral kri. this erodes the basic standards. >> the president's budget is a wish list. there is going to be negotiations about it. what have you been hearing from your democrat and republican colleagues about where there could be some middle ground and where they could push back against some of these proposals? >> we held a hearing today with the office of management and budget director mr. mulvaney. i'm on the budget committee. believe you me, at this point the democrats are fighting against the cuts. the republicans, some are saying that they're concerned about some a...

Him in large part because of that, because he said he was going to make sure they were going to be employed and they were going to have health care. >> sure. sure. if people are going to have health care. and that is obviously something that the congress has got to work out. a lot of details in that. the senate hasn't even addressed it yet. we got a long ways to go on health care, we have a long ways to go on tax reform, we have a long ways to go on this budget. the thing that i would ask democrats is, work with the man. give him a chance. he loves to negotiate. go try to cut a deal with him, ...