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Reopened. but at the same time, make a good faith effort and commitment that we also address the long-term budget issue that we have to do for the year, the bipartisan bicameral budget agreement. at the same time, say they're going to sincerely allow for a vote on a bipartisan daca, border security bill that dealings with family reunification and also there's another issue too they want to deal with. they'll deal with all these issues, four issues. let them deal with them. i think we'll be fine. and that's -- but we need that commitment. they're not going to be able to negotiate the daca agree...

That's a non-starter. entitlement reform ryan wants to do, mcconnell doesn't. infrastructure a possibility. immigration, and i also think some of the small fixes to healthcare that senator alexander could help and get done. >> infrastructure is an opportunity where both parties can meet. on the immigration front what's interesting about that everybody talks about daca. clearly democrats want to do daca. the question what are they willing to give to do it? up to now nothing. nothing to do with chain migration or nothing to do with the wall. they will have to move off those points of view in ord...

Iran has established a land bridge now from around three iraq to syria to lebanon. that is something we should never have permitted to happen. iran is trampling all over our political interests in iraq. they have 150,000 militia, some of whom are on the border with syria and iraq, but have undue influence in iraq. we should be pushing back on that and we should also be taking a stand to help saudi arabia with the problem they have in yemen. we don't have any of those specifics. >> martha: you have long masked and tracked the expansion of iranian power throughout the middle east and it's clear ...

Perception and only alienating more of the moderate or the independent minded people in the electorate who are not tied to any one party to make them feel like congress is really just not out there for them? >> look, i think it is really important for us to somehow figure out a way to commit in a bipartisan way to making these institutions work again for america. they don't work. i mean, we are in the middle of dismantling these really elegant institutions that the founders built for us to resolve our disputes because we are not resolving disputes. all we are doing is having disputes. and that...

>> neil: all right. amazon is in with earnings and sales after bell to handily beat estimates. that stock already touching near $1,000 a share. soaring an additional $60 in after-hour trading. that could be volatile and a passi passing phenomenon. back to the budget issue. the house voting on the senate measure. 20 republicans voting against it. what a lot have problems with is the plan to wipe out local and state tax deductions that doesn't fly from those that come from high tax states. i raise that issue with marco rubio just a short time ago. >> is it your sense that that provision will be ...