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Going to need congress. one of the things that i think is very appealing about all this it's a unified republican government but it -- there is a lot of division within the republicans and the republicans on the hill are not going to write a blank check to donald trump. so many of them don't trust him. i think that return of the separation of powers and the balance of powers is a very good thing for america and i think that we'll have some very unusual and interesting and productive fights on capitol hill in the coming couple years. >> shannon: that separation of powers is in the federalist pa...

Let manhattan become bel air, california. build whatever they want, let the developers do whatever they want and make money and you tax it an achieve all the goals you want to in the outer burroughs? do you believe that people have a right or you want to subsidize their preference to live in manhattan? do you agree with what i'm saying? >> i want to respond and frame it a little differently. to me it's not a question are we trying to ignore market realities and say manhattan is an easy place for lower income folks to live. i understand what's happened in manhattan the last few decades. it does...

Could be saving. >> absolutely. that's just the commission's staff. what we save in terms of the projects themselves, another council member who introduced the bill that i'm co-sponsor of to eliminate the commission pointed out in his district, he wanted to design a park's bocce court to put a roof on it. $75,000 is what they estimate would call, prefab unit so the old guys could play it in the court. after the design commission came back $750,000. >> you want to get rid of it. it is redundant. there's a lot of waste. mayor wants to keep it because why? >> look, this is an appointment process....

Suicide. he wasn't a terrorist this was not part of a largest terror plot that was the scare of course but this man confessed to police and convinced them he was actually trying kill himself not to cause any problems for anybody else. of course he was brought into custody. now we're told he will not be charged but some very tense moments about 5:30 this morning on a subway tunnel leading from manhattan out into the outer burroughs here in new york city. back up to you guys. patti ann: all right rick folbaum, thanks. now to a possible risk to our national security. in days the world expo will g...

Outside of new york city, it's a cleatly different scene. new yorkers are age rip and they're taking aim at the mayor. in the burroughs outside of manhattan, streets are still blanketed with snow, leaving new yorkers in brooklyn on edge. >> years -- years and years and years i've lived here and never have i seen it like this. >> emergency crews like the fire truck in manhattan face challenging conditions. hundreds of buses were still stuck and stranded by tuesday morning. and there was this video of damage while cars were being towed. >> oh, my god. >> the department of sanitation says the i...