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Billion due to loss productivity and loss economic activity to outside businesses. meanwhile americans aren't happy with the way the government is running. a new nbc news wall street journal poll shows 63% say the country is on the wrong track. just 28% think things are going in the right direction. those negative numbers are up 7 points from last month. let's talk more about all of this now with steven earlinger, the chief diplomatic correspondent in europe joining us live now from brussels, belgium. always a pleasure to have you on the show, steve. >> thanks, george. >> the clock is ticking....

That being said, this president, would you call him civil the way he does name calling and any number of other things? >> i do not like the name calling and i think moving forward the president should tweet less. i understand why he tweetds to speak directly to the american people, but some of his tweets are counter productive and i would urge him to examine that. >> all right, new jersey congressman leonard lance, thanks for joining me. >> whom to believe? 55% of americans side with robert mueller. 30% the president. how might opinions change if the president does indeed do a face to face int...

Immense amount of cost, you know, involved, the cost in society runs upwards of $442 billion a year. the addiction costs. those are in additional health care costs, loss productivity with the work force. and also the additional criminal justice. and so there is a way that i think that a lot of money and resources needs to be put towards this and for every dollar spent on treatment it saves $4 on health care. for every dollar put toward an intervention or early prevention education saves $58 in future health care costs. what i want to do is reach out to president trump, bring us to the table, b...

how much money was at his disposal. >> they could have used it to get him out, but on the other hand judge lester runs aa tight courtroom, as well he should, and he was frustrated because he doesn't think they were being as straightforward and honest as he thought they should. he hope the revocation is temporary. i hope he'll give us a day in court to explain george's behavior and look at all the circumstances, even the discovery that's come out to date, in determining what to do to let him back out on bond. within 48 hours. i haven't even spoken to him yet. >> reporter: did you read...

Capitol hill. once again, the federal government is out of business today. >> out of business today. and this is day four, if you're playing the home game. and that's -- they figure $100 million a day in loss productivity. so if they take tomorrow off, we're looking at half a billion dollars. now, how they come up with that figure, it's difficult to say but you look around here, it's re really not that bad out there right now. there's a fair amount of snow covering everything. you're seeing cars driving around here. 4 these streets probably aren't going to be fully clear until tuesday at the e...