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I'm comfortable and we've had our legal counsel review everything but if their suggestions will follow it, that's number one. number two, it doesn't cost $25,000 an hour but it costs a lot of money. and number three, as i've said, there are times when i need secure communications to be in touch with the president, the national security counsel and that's the reason why. >> he said betsy was comfortable with this discussion. >> yeah. >> he didn't bring it up. >> i heard people sound slightly more comfortable than secretary mnuchin sounded in that clip. part of the reason this is such an issue f...

Everybody who needs it. >> there's two line items, the navigators which i think you're referring to which looks like it's getting cut 40%, the advertises budget being cut by t 90%. governor hickenlooper, are you afraid of a worst of all scenarios taking shape in which the law remains the law on the books but the executive manages it in such a way that it becomes essentially expensive and unworkable? >> well, certainly that's been discussed before and really has been threatened. i think right now what governor kasich and i have been working on demonstrates that there is an appetite for a bipart...

To me the fact that we're paying people to do what they already should have been doing doesn't make sense but i would prefer to use that money to try to create a healtier pool wh which lowers the cost of health insurance for everybody who needs it. >> there's two line items, the navigators which i think you're referring to which looks like it's getting cut 40%, the advertises budget being cut by 90%. governor hickenlooper, are you afraid of a worst of all scenarios taking shape in which the law remains the law on the books but the executive manages it in such a way that it becomes essentially ...

Pork. if you go back and look at line-items, you saw that what it did was address the path of the storm. from the caribbean, up the coast, and the final, you know, landing in new jersey, new york. so all of those areas that were affected, parts of d.c., saint thomas, elsewhere, they all got a little piece to help to get back on their feet and recover, that was not pork for those people who needed that aid. it may not have gone necessarily to humanitarian effort, putting food on the ground or water on the ground, but it did go to restore some infrastructure and things like that. there was a lot...

House speaker paul ryan brushing off the president's comments promising a bill is on the way. >> we'll do this before the debt ceiling. there are many options in front of us on how to achieve. that we'll do that because this is about paying the bills we already racked up, paying our debts. >> that was at a tax event at a boeing plant yesterday. the clock is ticking on the debt limit. congress has to raise the ceiling before early october, otherwise the u.s. won't have enough money to pay about a quarter of its bills. that forces the government to the -- treasury secretary actually to pick and ...