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Wall street his aides are taking the business backlash seriously. here with me now to discuss this, thomas donahue, president of chamber of commerce. >> pleased to be here. >> take a listen to the criticism of business. >> step by step, a lot of coverage at a lot of times. but the country is making the steps necessary for its long term competitiveness and long-term growth and maintains the growth as a number one economy in the world. >> what is your criticism? is this administration being anti-business or not pro-business enough? what's the line here? >> our focus is very simple. we want to cr...

Average tea party member is 22% smarter regarding stuff like that than members of congress. just a moment ago, dolly parton when we were looking at elena kagan testifying up on capitol hill yesterday, you said oh, it's like being called to the principal's office. >> it is. wouldn't you hate to be on the hot seat like that? she said something about her hair, i could loan her some of mine. i'm not using right now. >> she's looking for a job for life. you've had a job for life being dolly parton. >> i have! i have! and i have so many things to show for it. we're going to talk about the 25th anniv...

Liberal and was not allowed to speak out. and she seems to say, well, there's not much -- that's much ado about nothing. >> i don't think that she is any more closet liberal than her mother-in-law, barbara bush, who had different opinions about choice and other women's issue than the republican establishment. >> she takes up for her husband, too, in the iraq war a little bit, saying he didn't want this war brought to his door by saddam hussein. wouldn't expect anything less, i guess. >> no, no, doesn't sound exactly like i remember it. he seemed to be pretty enthusiastic about the idea back in...

President has been any kind of legislative victory, certainly signed a tremendous number of executive orders, 25, higher than any president since lyndon johnson, and he is on track to set a post-world war ii cots to get a vote on obamacare repeal and replace if he can this week. in fact, we could have the language of a new amendment from the moderate tuesday group, more conservative house freedom caucus later today, then it's possible between wednesday and saturday that they will be a vote. he's also pushing for $1.5 billion in additional funding for congressional -- construction of a border w...

>> i think your gaze is too low, raise it to the horizon. >> this isn't my gaze, but your party. >> we've been too timid on policy. we've been too timid on vision. we have none. this is what i think we can unify over which is so people understand why we make decisions on a day-to-day basis, they don't understand where we're going. we have to show people where we're going and what horizon we're shooting for. what are our ideas and apply them to the problems of the day to get solutions for working families so they can get ahead and they can see that we can get this american idea back. that's the...