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You mentioned ear marks earlier. you think the president this is the first time he is experiencing disapproval and he's having a hard time handling it? that's the impression i am getting. >> i think there were two different characteristics one emotional and the other intellectual. it was pet lens. it was a teenager who was upset stamping his foot saying how dare you not give me what i want. i think the tone was very unpresidential and very unlike the obama candidacy which was positive and was uplifting and optimistic. i thought the intellectual thing was unbelievable. how can he talk about tra...

Compared to what he was as a candidate this is an amazing slipging presidency at this time. >> did you get the impression he almost was attempting to get the chamber to rise, and chant yes, we can. he missed the adulation? >> two of the places i was really struck by, one was the total explicit hypocrisy of speaker nancy pelosi smiling an standing to applaud when he called for the end of ear marks. i thought it was such a total act of hypocrisy knowing that chairman okay bi has just asked for members to submit all of their earmark requests by march. if you look at that particular clip it is tru...

Opposite. he is remarkably calm when things are at their worst. when he fired comey, staff found him incredibly calm. what it means here is hard to tell. donald trump has been all over the map when it comes to these negotiations. it seems that he really does want to come to an agreement, which means that he is prepared to alienate his base frankly who elected him to a large extent on a very hard line immigration issue. but i would be surprised if he relinquishs the wall. the biggest symbol of his presidency. >> bill: that's the one thing i doubled down on after that meeting yesterday. >> that'...

Concept of ear marks that will bring you together, you'll do it honestly and get rid of the problems that the other system had and it did have some problems. one thing it did is brought everyone together. >> bill: an interesting political point to be made. how do republicans greet that comment? >> depends. if it's the go along to get along rub shoulders in the smokey back-filled rooms, lobbyist republicans like hearing this. ear marks are the treats and favors you can hand out to members to get them to support a bill. but i was getting phone calls from conservatives, principled conservative re...

Ear marks coming from the senate and hurricane sandy 30 billion dollars worth of ear marks in it effectively. >> greta: everybody is talking about the fiscal relief bill and the sandy relief bill. here is what they're not telling you, and just mentioned it, both bills of are full of pork. that means, special deals for special people. maybe not to be special people, millions of dollars headed to hollywood and producers. and susan joins us. all right. let's start with some of the pork, special deals for special people. let's start with the fiscal deal. who gets special deals. >> first of all, th...