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Economic priorities can go forward this summer. >> does this all mean basically that most democrats are ultimately going to go ahead with getting rid of the 60-vote threshold? >> that's really a hard question to answer. that has more to do with investigate rights than it does budget proposals, and i think it has to -- a lot to do with joe manchin ends up on investigate rights and right now when it comes to the budget nobody has -- has access to a couple, then joe manchin would get on board. you have the progressive and bernie sanders out there and they don't have any problem spending money on ...

Intel guys saying he has orders to do it. no, we don't have a plan in place. even his suggestion is, well, if that happens during the election. well, that's too late. >> it is definitionally late. you're talking tough but the administration not doing anything is totally in sufficient. we know from the intel community's testimony on capitol hill, no orders have been given by the white house. nothing has been done. we know "new york times" reported that tillerson secretary of state department has $120 million to get tough. they spent zero. when has government ever had a problem spending money? i...

Stimulate the economy. >> chris: let me jump in because i want to ask about that issue. there is a big vote, perhapses whetherk coming up on weather to extend unemployment benefits. republicans say it must be paid for. here is the president's response. >> i have no problem spending money on tax breaks for those at the top who didn't need them and didn't ask for them but object to folks laid off in this recession who really do need help. >> chris: why is it that extending unemployment benefits has to be paid for according to republicans but extending the bush tax cuts for the wealthy that doesn...

Stimulate the economy. >> chris: let me jump in because i want to ask about that issue. there is a big vote, perhapses whetherk coming up on weather to extend unemployment benefits. republicans say it must be paid for. here is the president's response. >> i have no problem spending money on tax breaks for those at the top who didn't need them and didn't ask for them but object to folks laid off in this recession who really do need help. >> chris: why is it that extending unemployment benefits has to be paid for according to republicans but extending the bush tax cuts for the wealthy that doesn...

There are signs that it's not such a good recovery. that it slowed down. >> you know, we're in such a deep hole with 9.5% unemployment that we need to be growing rapidly to get out of it any time soon. just as a rule of thumb, we need to gain 250,000 jobs a month just to bring the unemployment rate down 1% a year. that will still take four years to get down to a normal unemployment rate. and we're not doing that. we're gaining jobs about 120,000 jbz jobs a month. we're not only not digging out of the hole, we're not even keeping level. >> all right, neil irwin, good to see you. thank you so mu...