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Infrastructure bill? >> most indications say it's going to be a smaller package than president trump promised on the campaign trail when he said a trillion dollars for an infrastructure push. that money has not come to the table. it's not in the draft plans the way that it looked during the campaign. but the other thing is that democrats and a lot of local, state and county officials have to figure out how they're spending their money especially now that tax reform has gone through. if they look to cut social services, basically programs that help lower income families in their states they're ...

>> the brightest light you can shine on this is that he needs good relationships with members of congress to get his agenda through. if you can create that good relationship on the golf course, we see this all the time in business and politics but it's a large number of days. >> he once treated about obama that he should play with democrats. that would be one thing we'd like to see, how about president trump play golf with democrats in 2018? new year's resolution. golf with democrats. >> yeah. they're in swing states. they are people you could get on board in infrastructure push. >> you interv...

Reform. >> how can you oppose infrastructure if you're the democratic party? >> there's the overall spending in this bill. they could say it's not enough, it's not what was promised. it's not high enough but there's also the question of timing. so democrats really want to see daca on the table as soon as possible in the new year. if you look back at the fall president trump said he would give them six movants for tnths. but republicans and democrats are looking at proposals to shore up the health care law, look specifically at lamar alexander and susan collins on that one and there's going to ...

Police officer that may be nearby and mention it to them. something that doesn't seem right is something we all want to investigate. >> talk that there's a big infrastructure push in the new year. the president indicated that. a number in both parties have expressed support to hear each side out. obviously the tsa and security at airports could and likely will be part of that. what do we need? >> well, we need -- when tsa first was formed, we basically worked into the existing infrastructure at airports. some airports have modernized over the 16 years. many have not had the opportunity to do t...

He's start with infrastructure. i mean, there's been a lot of talk but not much done, yet, and that committee of businessmen fell apart the other day. what does the administration do about that? >> that's a good question. i think it will continue to be a priority of president trump's, but it is going to be tricky. it will be tricky for a few different reasons. one, he will need to get a democratic and republican support for any kind of infrastructure overhaul and his relationships particularly with democrats but also with members of his own party on capitol hill right now are definitely strain...