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There has been some griping over the course of the years, but eventually people came to and said we got to move this forward. what's really happened recently it's a very important point. a lot of these house republicans, they come from districts where amtrak plays no role. so essentially their entire model is it doesn't affect me i don't hear about it at home, i don't care about it, it's another big spend government boondoggle that we do not need. if you talk to republicans from the northeast, a lot of them push back on their more conservative counterparts and say hey, this actually matters a ...

All this inside politics. i'm fining it hard to follow here. didn't mitch mcconnell vote no on this budget and yet that helps him? >> yeah. i think it -- everyone expected him to vote no, and he did. it does help him because he is facing a primary challenger. he has to really -- the worst of all worlds, primary challenge and he has a general election challenge, where other republican senators, like ma mar alexander, that cochran, once they get by the primary they're going to win re-election. mcconnell has to worry about both. so he went no on this budget deal because it breaks the caps put int...

Knead to pass a budget. bring one to floor. ken conrad said he wanted to mark up a budget. he has been back tracking that as well. very disappointing. they will rely on caps put in by the budget control act. that is not even close to a budget. they were trying, i'm sure to block any attempt the republicans made toward bringing up the house budget or bringing up alternatives for example, from like pat too manyey. >> bottom line, they don't want to show the american public that first of all they have no plan. the only plan is to increase taxes on the american people. >> the president has a propo...

Military so it was really how we executed that strategy where president trump really made a difference in that he lifted the overly restrictive roe. he allowed the military to back away from these truth caps put in place by the obama administration and allowed our forces to embed down at a more tactical level to make more of a difference in terms of helping with artillery and air support and those pieces. in that sense he deserves credit and he allowed our military to do the job they were sent there to do out in the field. >> sandra: you look at the updates that we're getting from the pentagon...

And what the judge said is that it's up to the government to show the risk. well, i think we can show what's happening in the gulf of mexico. so i think it's important that the secretary of interior demonstrate the risk factors that are currently there in deep water. >> what do you make of the judge as it's been reported, he's got oil interests. >> well, i think i'm going to leave that one alone. obviously, we want to make sure that we have an independent judiciary. it's important that judge who have conflicts let the parties know about these conflicts and then there's procedures which can tak...