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New construction and economic development. both secretary chao and zinke met with us yesterday with state and local leaders to develop plans to replace america's decaying infrastructure and construct new roads, rails, pipelines, tunnels and bridges all across our nation. we are here today to focus on solving one of the biggest obstacles to creating this new and desperately needed infrastructure, and that is the painfully slow, costly, and time-consuming process of getting permits and approvals to build, and i also knew that from the private sector. it is a long, slow, unnecessarily burdensome ...

Empire state building was built. it took less than one year, many people don't believe that. today could take ten years and far more than that just to get the approvals and permits needed to build a major infrastructure project. these charge beside me are actually a simple version of our highway permitting process. it includes 16 different approvals involving ten different federal agencies being governed by 26 different statutes. as one example, this happened just 30 minutes ago, i was sitting with a great group of people responsible for their states economic development and roadways. you are ...

Process, a. and b, at the time, his aides basically said he stepped aside, but he didn't actually totally take himself out in a concrete way. so, i think there are some questions here about how involved is he and to what extent are these new revelations going to make it much more important for him to really say is he really completely out of this whole thing or not? >> yeah, and abby, so, play the odds for me. odds that when sessions testifies next week about the budget, he's only about the budget. >> the chances are zero. he will be asked about this. he will be asked about this. he will be as...

The empire state building. people don't believe that. it took less than one year. but today it can take ten years and far more than that just to get the approvals and permits needed to build a major infrastructure project. these charts beside me are actually a simplified version of our highway permitting process. it includes 16 different approvals involving 10 different federal agencies being governed by 26 different statutes. as one example, and this happened just 30 minutes ago, i was sitting with a great group of people responsible for their state's economic development and roadways. all of...

Of the target. you've got to know that it was acting corruptly, and you've got to have a nexus between the effort to impede an investigation and the actual conduct of that investigation. that is emphatically not to say that those things will not come to be proven. but at this moment, to say that we're there is simply incorrect. i think, frankly, going to the end of this -- and this is, remember, all in the context of a process that is legal but intensely political. there isn't going to be a courtroom appearance, and the $64,000 question is to be whether or not in that political process, becaus...