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Maria: president is having success on the foreign trips that we're talking about. most recent g20 included. what about the domestic agenda? we're waiting on healthcare out of the senate, your colleagues in the house had a long back and forth in terms of getting that bailout. then the american people want to see tax reform this year. do you believe that the president will be successful on the domestic agenda. >> he has to be, we all ran on this. if senate cannot achieve, that then, we don't deserve to be reelected. i think that fact is we have to get that done. and when we get tha that that d. ...

That they simply cannot achieve, donald trump's ad talks about this wall that he's going to build that mexico is going to pay for. again, clinton not naming trump but i don't think it takes a genius -- >> it was very subtle but i did, look, i think -- here's my guess at what happened. somebody went to him and said hey, we don't want you to proactively be point-counterpoint with donald trump today. the media is desperately going to be looking for anything so be careful with what you say, mr. president, because anything is going to be grabbed as we want to make this trump v clinton. i don't thin...

Before becoming speaker. i think that's what our members want to see us do more of, and that's why i think i'm in this position. >> there are people who want to defund planned parenthood. you have a budget deal in place next year, a predecessor, john boehner, but you still have to fund the government by december 11th or it will shut down. will you te fund medicare? >> i think being an effective opposition party means being honest with people up front about what it is you can and cannot achieve. >> are you going to tell everybody, sorry, we can't te fund -- >> we need to be clear about what we ...

Defund planned parenthood. you have a budget deal in place next year, predecessor john boehner. you still have to fund the government by december 11th or it will shut down. will you -- >> this is what i'm saying about the opposition party. being an effective opposition party is being honest with people upfront about what it is that you can and cannot achieve. >> are you going to tell everybody, sorry, guys, we can't defund planned parenthood? >> i think we need to be clear what we can and cannot achieve and not set restraints given the constitution. we also have to push issues where we can pus...

>> i think we need to be clear about what we can and cannot achieve. and not set expectations we know we can't reach given the constraints of the constitution. but we also have to push issues where we can push issues. we also have to speak truth to power. we have a president that isn't willing to listen, that isn't going to sign lots of our bills into law. we have a senate that has a very difficult process when it comes to actually getting bills voted on. and so knowing that we have those constraints, we have to operate within those constraints -- >> what will you say to your caucus about putt...