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>> it is paul ryan's first full week as speaker of the house and already he's facing his first big test. today the house starts consideration of a giant six-year, $325 billion highway and infrastructure bill. this is a bill that has faced a notoriously bumpy road in the past. consider the number 35. that's the number of times the existing highway program has been temporarily extended since 2009. most recently just last week. the current extension runs until november 20th, putting a countdown clock on efforts to find agreement. even though it can be a primary source of well paying jobs and can ...

Democracy and where the government gets to decide what that speech is is concerning and violates the first amendment. >> let me ask you one more question on this before i let you go. what the government is saying here what they are arguing, is that because this is about a sign that would be quote, state designated state created and erected on a state highway, they see this as state speech, not individual speech. >> well that's an interesting perspective we reject. when the state opened up this adopt a highway program they invited civically minded organizations to participate. they didn't defin...

Have hurtful speech such as kkk. we believe that this case is different. the license i plate cases -- the state here opened an adopt a highway program to all civic minded organizations. there were no state regulations governing the program, it was pure discretion on the state to decide. >> i'm going to cut in i totally get that i think what people are wondering, though is why should someone's free speech rights. if someone wants to say they're in the clan or hold a racist view, we have a constitution that protects those ideas. they don't go to jail for the idea. a lot of people understand that...

Illinois. and he aeldly was paying him hush money not to reveal the fact that hastert had sexually abused this young man back in those days. george, your thoughts about hastert and this case? >> what's interest behavior long ago that made him subject to blackmail but what made him worth blackmailing. he was a high school wrestling coach and then a member of congress and became very wealthy. first as speaker of the house, he presided over an avalanche of earmarks. by 2005 there were 15,000 earmarks attached to various pieces of legislation, one of which created a highway program, highway interc...

Background. questions of was there something in either family he didn't want to emerge? we're just left with all of these questions. he's going to be buried this week as he should be and honored as a governor who served three terms in the state and gave a lot back in terms of what people wanted to hear. there's nothing left in new york that's named after him. there's no education program. there's no highway program. there's no parks program. there's no infrastructure program. no reformation of the penal system for example. he remains in life and in death an enigma to me. >> you mentioned san f...