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>> sounds like majority leader mcconnell has some major hurdles to overcome this week. thanks, garrett. >> yeah. so two major headlines hanging over the white house, the healthcare bill, tied up in the u.s. senate, the meeting between russian officials and the president's son as well as other top members of the trump team. in the meantime, take a look at this. a fox news poll showing from june that the majority of american voters disapprove of how the trump and obama administrations handled russian meddling, well before the latest revelation. with that much said -- with that said, how much d...

In terms of infrastructure building, creating more jobs, getting the manufacturing industries going again, other countries are moving forward. they just are, and there have been some speculation that when the president came into office because of him saying that he's a deal-maker, and because he had the republicans in the senate and the republicans in the house, he would be able to break the gridlock, that this was the president, perhaps, who could get things moving because he had all the power in one party's hands and because he billed himself as a deal maker. instead his administration is ca...

>> sean: that is a sad state of affairs. i am watching the speech and i'm there and even when he said we will create jobs for those americans left behind, they still did not applaud. >> you are in a tough spot because what he basically did was he took three or four aspects of the playbook, middle-class jobs, blue-collar families getting a wage increase, infrastructure building, rebuilding our inner cities and helping the african-american communities and that is supposed to be their base, sean. he took that base from them. they will have a very hard time in that group, that voting segment. >> s...

Three times in that speech is going to get a primary. >> sean: that is a sad state of affairs. i am watching the speech and i'm there and even when he said we will create jobs for those americans left behind, they still did not applaud. >> you are in a tough spot because what he basically did was he took three or four aspects of the playbook, middle-class jobs, blue-collar families getting a wage increase, infrastructure building, rebuilding our inner cities and helping the african-american communities and that is supposed to be their base, sean. he took that base from them. they will have a v...

Rotc funding and the possibilities with an hbcu that could benefit or could help bolster what they are in need of. also for things like engineering. i remember during the george w. bush years with hud secretary jackson at the time, he found moneys, you know, for infrastructure building and gave that to morgan state university. it's things like agriculture, research, you know, places like -- and this is just a hypothetical. places like north carolina and are that has an ag department there for research there. so they're likening this to taking resources that could benefit these schools, at any ...