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Advance. it spread pretty rapidly. >> what are we looking at in terms of a timeline now? obviously the fires have been burning for some weeks. the drought is particularly bad in california and over the western region of the country. what are we looking forward to in terms of relief? what do we need? >> well, obviously the heat plays a huge factor in that. weather is a big factor as well. you know, there's a lot of thunderstorms. the good and the bad this comes with rain is usually lightning that causes new fire start-ups. so, you know, cooler trends are definitely help and then obviously the f...

Priority items. you've become president. these are the top five things you want to accomplish right out of the box. >> obviously the economic side of this is where you have to go first. you got the economics headed in the right direction. you 34 tax rate. that does multiple things. not only does it give a clear message and incentive for peel to invest in the united states, to bring back that manufacturing that has moved offshore. it raises the wages for the workers. that's a that's a powerful message. it is not just about the ceo. it is about that blue collar worker out there that sees their j...

Priority items. you've become president. these are the top five things you want to accomplish right out of the box. >> obviously the economic side of this is where you have to go first. you got the economics headed in the right direction. you 34 tax rate. that does multiple things. not only does it give a clear message and incentive for peel to invest in the united states, to bring back that manufacturing that has moved offshore. it raises the wages for the workers. that's a that's a powerful message. it is not just about the ceo. it is about that blue collar worker out sees their jobs and the...

Addressed. i would like to stress that it was a warning to me and by july it was clear to me that your department is being less than transparent about whether the changes would be ready by october the first, as a result i introduced the exchange sunset act of 2013 and my bill would've sunset at the exchanges of the the individual mandate the beneficiaries could not enroll starting october 1, a promise. in august, the hhs office of inspector general identified privacy and security vulnerabilities and determined a critical task remained to be completed in a short period of time. in early septemb...

Raise the debt ceiling. so that is the package they're talking about. what is really interesting is that as we were discussing before, the house republican leadership basically has a wish list, a laundry list, maybe even a christmas tree of all the things that they want to do in congress, whether it's delaying obama care for a year, the keystone pipeline, tax reform. they're attaching all of this, i'm told, maybe more than a dozen republican priority items to the measure to raise the debt ceiling in the hopes that, a, they can sort of assuage some of the conservative restlessness and maybe mor...