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Election, trying to stop it from happening again. why is that such a significant lapse? >> well, it's just really disappointing because there is a body, the national security council, and i served on it for four years, whose responsibility and mission it is to coordinate inner agency policy on a range of issues. what that means is there are several agencies -- the f burks ho -- fbi, homeland security -- that provide input to the policymaking process. the national security council under h.r. mcmaster should be taking those inputs and making policy recommendations to the president at which point...

Policymaking process is totally broken and that we can't even make -- we can't even fund the government for the fiscal year that started months ago. and that means we're shouting, we collectively, shouting at each other across this chasm of ideology and partisanship and not actually getting anything done. the congress isn't working on the big problems that face the country. they aren't even working on a long-term budget or on how to handle technological change or how to handle an aging population. these are all problems that we ought to be talking about. and they're manageable problems, but we...

Benefit of getting democrats and republicans in the same room together talking about issues, like immigration, like tax reform, like everything else that the administration has sought to accomplish going forward. you really see there's a good opportunity to engage in important dialogue like this when everybody is around the table. i do want to touch briefly on the access that was granted. it is important for white house reporters like myself to be able to witness something like that to see the president, to see this policymaking process unfold. but also to prevent likes from happening. one thi...

Hopes senator graham can be a bull work and a firewall and not a yes, man. if you don't mind from quoting from your twitter feed, quote, "always entertaining and never boring." >> what is it that you are voting for? they have zero idea and none. every single gen x should be outrag outraged. the beggaring of the country for special interest donations is immoral. >> we are seeing total collapse of any rigger around the policymaking process in this country. we are a nation of 330 million

Rigor around the policymaking process in this country. we're a nation of 330 million people. this legislation affects everybody. the number one economic challenge of our time that's driving so much turbulence in our politics, so much extremism in the parties is the fact that working class people haven't seen a real wage increase in a generation. it's creating a crisis of competence in free market american capitalism for millennials and so many other americans. and it can have a profoundly bad effect for future opportunity in this country. this bill does nothing about that problem. it does noth...