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House is there's political grandstanding by the democrats. ryan and mcconnell saying they're going to be there, ruth, notwithstanding. >> so getting even weirder is probably like the motto of 2017. covers all situations. we always knew that december was going to be the toughest month. that there's just an incredible, incredibly difficult and controversial slate on the congressional to do list. this tweet and then the pretty predictable response to it doesn't make a difficult situation any easier. and there's always going to be this -- you know, grand standing is what washington is about. of co...

Murray and alexander, right, a republican and a democrat to deal with this, to come up with a funding solution so that there would be no ambiguity so the court case would be moot and what incentive do they have to pursue that now? >> especially since mitch mcconnell won't bring anything to the floor with the democrats name on it. anyway the hostages are being taken by more than one person. thank you all for being here. coming up, i went to the u.s. virgin islands to report on the hurricane devastation there. you don't want to miss it.

May, and what congress has been doing is using trickery, going into the general trust fund to fund this and essentially it's supposed to be used for our crumbling roads and bridges. it's not at all clear that that's where it goes. but unless there is a multiyear, long-term funding solution to this deficit of the highway trust fund, the pressure is going to be on states and local governments to raise the gas tax, and that's what they've been doing. i mean there are legions of states right now that are raising it this year. that's more money out of your pocket. >> well, that's a lot of pressure....

I can't see anything which suggests it makes any sense whatsoever to end social security as a federal entitlement and send it back to the states. "national journal's" congressional korntd joins us. major, you write about social security and the politics of social security in the "national journal." you point out that the payroll tax cut proposed by the president would undermine the long-term funding solution for social security. >> that's right. it's the great unobserved debate going on. as rick perry and mitt romney talk about whether social security is a good or bad thing. there was a payrol...

>> the archi in archi's acres is archie, a marine in iraq. he bought this determined to keep helping fellow marines. >> when i left, i was hoping i could create some type of unit outside of the military that was as proficient as the unit in the military. >> when the va cut the funds, colin and his wife paid the men thousands of dollars out of their pocket all of the while talking to the va about how to get the money being turned back on. >> the problem is the vets that we have in the program are falling victim to the interpretation of statute and it leaves them high and dry until we can patch ...