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Washington? watch paul ryan and mitch anything connell. watch to see if they -- because so far they have not indicated this is a new priority item. they are clearing the decks of other stuff to take care of this. it is an election year. that cuts both ways, obviously. you want to make sure your base is energized but you also understand at least on the house side a lot of the competitive districts, chris, they're in suburban communities. a lot of college educated voters. the very kind of voters who are responding to this moment on this issue. and yet you don't want to completely abandon your ba...

Day ahead including a meeting with some of silicon valley top executives. trump tower. good morning, david lee, who do they expect over there today? >> a long list of special guests, martha. in fact you might best be calling trump tower silicon valley north. a number of titans of tech will be arriving in the next few years. invitees include representatives from apple, amazon, google, microsoft and ibm. the priority item on the agenda is expected to jobs, and the special visas. bill: issued by the government that allow many foreign tech workers to hold positions here. the president-elect's chie...

Would you support putting more money into jobless benefits here? if you are talking about crying for relief from the unemployment, what about the long term? >> you know the 29ers. this health care law is doing a great deal of harm to job creation, but anybody that wants to increase or renew unemployment benefits, you've got to first say, well, what is the lower priority spending item that you're going to, you know, take off the table? what areas of the budget are you going to cut to make room for what you consider higher priority item? that's the first table stakes. don't come and request more...

Doing something kind of standard, that has been on the schedule. but this one kind of feels like maybe of more concern. >> yeah, no question about it. it's a leak in the cools system. ammonia is used to cool the space station's components. it literally draws the heat out of the components, and then that heat is transferred to radiators, that radiate the heat out into space. they've got a lot of redundancies, brianna, but you don't want to rely on those redundancies and all of those other cooling systems, you want all of them functioning. this is a priority item. what you're looking at there is...

This budget answers that argument, because we can do both. >> gloria borger, author of "crunch time for obama and washington." good morning, gloria. you write president obama now has a chance to act on his to-do list, which you say could set his legacy for the second term. movement on gun control, real immigration reform and for the first time until four years, a new federal budget. we'll break down the president's budget proposal later in the show but let's say an agreement on federal budget and immigration reform could change america's economic landscape. why do you think now is crunch time ...