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To investigate. if they don't investigate, that means either there is nothing there or they are too busy focusing on the other part -- >> jason: you do see that there was more than $10 million that went out the door there. sorry, congressman duffy, go ahead. >> that's because you have partisan hacks at the head of the doj and fbi. that is why i've called for a special counsel to look at the partisanship. >> and it has been rejected. >> i think all americans will say, what involvement did russia have in the elections? i'm on the same page. we want to find that out. let's not do it in a partisan...

Budget cuts. his wife lives in southwest ohio, she will lost almost her entire pension, so i know you said you aren't for finding way to make these pensions whole but understand this congress bailed out wall street banks including goldman and i hope you will change your mind in helping make these pensions whole. >> and i appreciate the significance of pension issues and i can assure you i had nothing to do with it at goldman sachs. >> i understand that but doesn't help rita lewis feel any better. >> i understand that. >> i know there's an ideological feeling to help the wall street bankers, ra...

Infrastructure and minimum wage. i hope that's the way he goes. >> what are your thoughts about the spending cuts of $1.1 trilon that hits the middle class. the funding of some of these pensions are not the way people want them to be 30 years from now. why should someone who is getting to retire in 30 years will have to take a real cut for something they have been counting on here in the next several years. >> i voted against, that was part of the cromnibus bill. i voted no for a number of reasons. i'm hopeful that instead of congress talking about reducing corporate tax rate part of that is w...

Traditional work place retirement plan. about six million working calfornians do not have access to personal 401 k options. so state lawmakers are trying to implement a mandatory way for people to save for the future. it would be saved in private accounts and managed privately, according to the proposal so individuals would choose how they invest their own money. the state mandate says only 3% is safe, heather. heather: there are a lot of supporters of this idea. what are they saying about it? >> the critics say it would be hard for california to implement this because of their state's rocky r...

He'd like to post to you. >> one thing that strikes me is governor walker's approach in wisconsin was more partisan than what governor kasich did in ohio. governor kasich hit all the republican backing organizations within the labor movement and that's what coalesced to create the defeat for governor kasich's reforms, or what he called reforms in ohio and what governor walker did was much more one sided and that may intensify a partisan approach to these pension issues. i wonder if our guest worries about that, too. >> well, it was very obviously a divide and conquer strategy by governor walke...