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Brought together. steve: ed, come on. >> he has to make a better case than that. steve: what are earmarks? >> earmarks are targeted extending projects that lawmakers on both sides could say i have $100,000 that's going to go to the bridge and people got frustrated with it, the fix for it didn't fix it. they said you can no longer have earmarks and it's made it harder for the president and leaders of both parties to throw a bone to somebody so they will vote for repealing or replacing obamacare or the tax cuts. some people say that's great because we don't want to bring back corruption. no, the...

Meme. never underestimate the power of hateful people in large tech companies, because the serious point about all this is that the contempt for conservatives inside google translates into real discrimination and harm outside google. think about it. how many times a day do you do a simple google search, those results are generated by algorithms, people who are overwhelmingly liberal, and as we've seen tonight, hateful. coming up next, who's really to blame for that outrageous hawaii false alarm? and did our drain the swamp president really call for the return of earmarks? don't go away. v do...

And needed to communicate with maui and oahu and the big island of hawaii. are you telling me they had to go through all the gyrations? i think gabbert, i trust and believe in her, i don't agree with her on everything, go walk through the system. >> i think you will find this is not necessarily true. steve: we don't have much to say other than to note this is not a joke, it was incredibly serious and really, really emotionally disturbing for hawaiians. tonight get to something else that president trump said earlier this week that many people found quite shocking, listen to this. >> maybe you s...

A ceo that go to the white house and then you have a government that functions at a very slow rate. have you nothing get done, no bipartisanship on capitol hill. i think he's very frustrated at the rate of getting things done, so he's looking back and earmarks have been something that leadership uses as leverage to bring people to the table and get people to vote for certain pieces of legislation. so think he's looking at it from a deal-making perspective. >> people were shocked there was politics going on. >> giving out money. steve: lucy, it is interesting, a while back before the president ...

In public, they're not doing this secretly. the president said it out loud. i would argue you bring transparency to it so democrats and republicans have to say i was behind that bridge to no where. i'm the one who put the money in there. the problem with spending wasn't the spending or choices, a lot of it was in secret. if you bring sunlight to it, you could fix it. steve: this is a real plan. >> it's counterintuitive dhau fix it. >> it is something, the very first amendment behind closed chl doors, the republicans tried to fix it. you would go around the room and the reason you could pass le...