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I think the american people expect us to finish healthcare, to finish frankly the tax reform bill, which won't be done by august, to do a budget a -- appropriation bills. the optics are bad and the reality is bad. >> who makes that call if you're going the stay behind and work in washington? >> the leadership in the house and the leadership in the senate. the senate has more work to do because they have to confirm the nominations. we don't have an administration place in yesterday for president trump to do his job. but the leadership in the house and senate will make that decision. >> do you t...

And, yet, you know, one of the interesting things about this is that we have seen a lot of very early and very stiff resistance from members in the president's own party. particularly on some of these cuts to the state department. >> jon: well, and for instance the e.p.a., a cut of 30%, that is actually bigger than his own e.p.a. administrator wanted. >> right. and, you know, this is -- this is a president who has been critical of the e.p.a. he has promised to roll back regulations. so it's not necessarily surprising. i think that he will not get everything that he wants, including possibly th...

Past few years. we have a budget a third the size of our d.a. they have 30 investigators. we have 8. they have 90 lawyers. we have 40. they have a $135 million police force investigating their cases for them. and when you look at that, you understand that there's just, in louisiana, about 1 to 2% of the funding goes to make sure someone is represented, that they're represented appropriately and their rights are protected. the rest is to catch, secure and convict. >> stick with us, don't go away. e e.j., i wanted to give you a chance to weigh. >> a couple things, just to go back to ban the box....

Moment? >> are you referring to the bill from last night? >> i'm referring to dams and bridges and a lot of stuff. some people say they are good projects in play that needed to be continually funded, because there's no budget a continuing resolution wouldn't have done that. that said, that's hardly a way to legislate. >> look, i don't disagree with you an drachlt there wdrea. there was a proposal by senator mcconnell from kentucky. he's going to have to speak to the merits of his proposal. what i do know is when it got to the house of representatives, we faced a simple decision, do we wan to s...

Is supposed to be a budget that's effectively giving the house gop and the republican party their marching orders or a banner to walk beneath, it's coming at a weird time. because we're talking about medicare here and turning that into a block grants to the states. that's coming against the relief of multiple, 27 states in this country opting to expand medicaid roles under the affordable care act. >> although possibly backing off in florida. but yes you're right. i give the budget a little more credit. i do think it's a budget and i think the numbers add up. but i don't like the way he makes t...