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don't look down. don't make any sudden moves. because we are almost at the end of a legislative tightrope, y'all. senators are putting in some extra hours this weekend. they're working to get democrats, health care, climate, and deficit reduction package across the finish line. the parliamentarian approved key components of the bill just hours ahead of when the senate is expected to debate it on the floor. it will take all 50 democratic votes and a tie breaker from vice president harris for the inflation reduction act to pass the senate. what does that mean to you? it means medicare ...

That are not in this bill before the end of the year? >> well there's a bunch of things that are not in the bill that i love. for instance, i'm the chair of the transportation housing and urban development subcommittee. i really care about the housing piece that didn't make the cut. look, lots of things don't make the cut when you are not major legislation. this is not build back better. the way i look at this is i don't compare it to the bill that was introduced, or contemplated a year and a half ago. i compare it to where we were two weeks ago, which is, we were about to get nothing. and now...

Figure here? would you be shavings all the individual programs or sort of pick and choose ones to do right? you know, if you're going to do two, there may -- maybe the housing piece of this just doesn't get started? >> well, there are ways you can look at it. if we get pre-k, it's wonderful, but there's not enough teachers. and the same thing with community college. in tennessee we pay for community college through the hope scholarship money. money i produced in 2004. we have that. a lot of states don't. maybe that could be changed and done in a different way. or it could be they could be fine...

There is evidence. we haven't seen what the evidence is yet. we know what the evidence is on the housing piece, right? that's so far -- so far, that's been very clear. we're much less clear on the question of what the governor knew in the context of bridgegate. that said, to the extent this is about the system, these structural implementation of the way that business is done, is there something about new jersey, from your reporting, that you could tell about how business is done that leads to, you know, especially, for example, if we take new jersey versus new york on sandy relief. >> right. t...

Hope and change is ego check on exceptionalism. president obama wanted a smaller country. by relation, he got larger. he sacrificed the greatness of the country for his stature. >> bob: do you buy in to this? the problems don't bother him. you buy in that the 30% of debt is obamacare? that's obama economics? >> eric: 35% slide -- [ overstalk ] listen. you may not like it but i don't make it up. >> dana: huge part of the number is housing. if you look at the "new york times" on sunday, devastating headline for the obama team says that is one thing they dropped the ball on the housing piece. net...