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I have 54,000 deficient bridges in this country. people spend 7 billion man-hours in traffic. infrastructure needs in the country. it gives us the opportunity to build upon the economic number with reg tore and tax reform getting the economy moving back in a more positive direction. one of the things that will be important is that whatever gets done reduces red tape and makes these projects less bureaucratic and figure it out how to pay for it. we have to answer that in the weeks ahead. >> bill: we're waiting for this hearing. taking our viewers there probably 15 minutes or so when the questio...

Dh shr dhs is doing some things with states. as we discussed last week, there's no leadership from the oval office on this, and it's not clear that some basic things are going to be done in time for the election. for example, every state should have a paper ballot backup to their electronic voting system. that's not the case in many states. every state should make sure they're not connected to the internet and there are no ways in. there doesn't need to be much to reduce confidence in an election. voter rolls change or manipulated in a few key swing states or countiesing really thr -- counties...

They are skeptical. that's a bipartisan thing. both democratic and republican governors have proven to be skeptical about this. because first you have the public/private combination, really being a challenge for addressing some of the infrastructure needs. for example, toll roads. that's easy. but who's going to see profit in going into flint and fixing the pipes there? that is a problem we have all over the country. we have an aging infrastructure in terms of water, roadways. many of our bridges are over 50 years old. and going into these rural communities. the pot of money that the administr...

And the people that are here working on the ground and, frankly, the big mouth of the president of the united states. it continues to add insult to injury. his tweets -- >> let me ask you about his tweets, mayor. >> out of a book of how to win people. >> out of his tweets, the trump administration asked for $4.9 billion to fund a loan program that puerto rico can use to address basic functions like infrastructure needs. that matters a lot more than the angry tweets, right? you want to see things get done. >> yes. we want to see things get done. so, rather than tweeting, get to work. >> yeah. >...

Functions like infrastructure needs. that matters a lot more than the angry tweets, right? you want to say things get done. >> yes. we want to see things get done. so rather than tweeting, get to work. >> yeah. >> rather than saying disparaging things, let's get constructive. so, you know, if the president wants to take aim at me, i'm here. bring it on. it doesn't matter to me because this isn't about me. >> the house speaker paul ryan says that puerto rico needs to stand on its own two feet in sight of the existing fiscal problems before the hurricane. is puerto rico able to stand on its own ...