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Yourself not. this is a lingering issue not going away anytime soon, unless he says more about it. but this does give him a moment here to at least, you know, remind folks that he is the commander in chief. >> and julie mentioned, candidate trump taking a different position on the issue of afghanistan. this will be interesting to see if he addresses this tonight. this is a taste of what he said on the campaign trail about this issue. >> and i'd like to see money spent on this country. i'd like to see us take our money and build schools here and build highways here, and build transit here and r...

Discuss radical left wing ideas like building roads and fixing schools and bridges. it must be socialism. it's really amazing, isn't it? >> the president keeps talking about how, you know, this used to be the kind of idea that wasn't that controversial. this used to be the kind of idea the democrats and republicans could come together on. is he right in pointing that out as a means of making the case that it could be that way again? >> as a historical matter, he certainly is right. i mean, who did more to build roads in this country than dwight eisenhower? he put through the interstate highway...

Occasions of how hard it is to get something approved. that has been a real focus of president trump and his administration. whereas democrats are more focused on let's build transit or funding government funding to build roads and bridges and all those things. so they are coming at it from very different angles at this point. one other thing that some folks have pointed out to me is that in the past, before president trump even came into office, there had been talk about doing bipartisan infrastructure legislation. and the funding mechanism for that is something that has now been part of this...

At the brookings institution. >> it's great to be here to discuss radical left wing ideas like building roads and fixing schools and bridges. it must be socialism. it's really amazing, isn't it? >> the president keeps talking about how, you know, this used to be the kind of idea that wasn't that controversial. this used to be the kind of idea the democrats and republicans could come together on. is he right in pointing that out as a means of making the case that it could be that way again? >> as a historical matter, he certainly is right. i mean, who did more to build roads in this country tha...