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Try keep themselves together on a difficult issue. this was one of the cases. there are some republicans that were part of the pollition that voted for the amendment that wanted to see more protections and the strain on the party that felt like this bill goes too far in giving the government surveillance powers. the leaders were trying to keep them in line and to have the president pull the rug out from under them the way he did with health care and other issues, that makes them nervous especially looking forwards difficult mid-terms earlier this year. >> they will be cutting the cable bill or...

You would end up with more jobs. when you listen to the trump administration, what's really scary is disney has been the biggest bully in the sand box for many years. >> what do you mean? >> they use espn as really a sledge hammer. if you want to get any of the channels, you want disney channel, you want abc, espn is their hammer. they use that hammer to get higher and higher fees. all your viewers who are watching right now, they are paying probably, unknowingly, $8 a month just for espn. you're going to add to that all of the power of the yes network and fox sports west and you're going to e...

To go totally local and state like they did recently in las vegas, that's one thing but you know, john talks about closing loopholes and normally the municipal bonds are used to build bridges and highways and infrastructure. the fact that the nfl teams found this loophole from stadium s, i think could be just a case of well we're just going to close a loophole. now is it vindictive on the part of trump? well i'll leave that up to anyone else but could it be done and maybe should it be done? i think so. >> dagen: jonas? >> jonas: look this whole socializing sports is a surd. you're already payi...

Support this. and the smart thing that donald trump could do, save the republicans from that bad vote, veto and help the americans retain their privacy. eric: what about congress doing this and finding time to impact our privacy. >> and this is the lobbyists doling out the bill. and the cable bill, not only that, but they get to sell our information? this is ridiculous, but donald trump will sign it and it will be become law. but the a least we can agree that barack obama did something good making sure our privacy was-- >> i did like that. >> go ahead. >> the companies are already telling your...

Thing differently. jason chaffetz received negative press when he said this about the healthcare bill. >> americans have choices. rather than getting that new iphone maybe they should invest in their own healthcare. jesse: he received wall to wall coverage on cable network for the so-called gaffe. but i remember another politician saying the same thing and receiving zero negative press attention. >> what i would say is if you looked at that person's budget and looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill and other things they are spending on, it may turn out just they hav...