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I spent 28 years in congress as a staff member, first as a personal staffer for congressman john kasich. Then as a staffer for the Budget Committee, the House Budget Committee when he was chairman. I was the analyst for National Security affairs. In 2005, i moved on to the senate and work at the Budget Committee there in the same capacity. What do you think of that statement . Up close it is truly ugly. It generally is. I would want to temper that. It has been a long time have it habit of everyone to criticize congress because they think that resonates with the public. It truly has become to s...

However, it is an institution that is as tab list by the first article in the constitution. If we dont nurture it, if good people do not go there, if good staffers do not go there, what we will have is the reichstag or one of those chamber of the utes situations in the french third republic. I dont want that. I won young people instead of going to wall street to go to congress or to go to the executive branch. We invited you to come talk about a column that you wrote about the bob gates book. We will get to that in a second. I want to go back to another quote. I know you have read this book. W...

Fundamentally not change the underlying operation of the program in the house and the senate. Republicans and democrats in the judiciary committees are just in a different place. And so the congress is split, i think, on these two. Last night president obama said to Chris Matthews that, you know, hes planning to make changes. He didnt specify what they were, and as you know, this group at the white house is working on thinking through what those changes might be. Do you have any sense, any predictions about what is likely able to happen, what is politically able to fly on the hill . I think th...

To ten official balls four years ago. Jennifer wow whats the theme . Every inauguration has some sort of theme, and how in this case has the theme been made manifest. Theyll look at faith in the future. Its going to be a lot about Martin Luther king jr. Its the same weekend that the country celebrates him and his leadership. And so when we talked to a lot of people there is a nod and expected to be some omage paid to dr. King. Jennifer thats really cool. Why are there going to be two swearing in ceremonies . Its different. Usually this does not happen. There have been a couple of other instanc...

California. We continue this cool pattern or will we warm it up for the Holiday Weekend . Reporter and part of a major freeway is shut down for several days. Well tell you what drivers should expect. Were live in oakland this morning where a man was hit and killed by a car last night. Police say it was not an accident. Coming up in two minutes, ktvus Tara Moriarty will tell us about the unusual Investigation Underway right now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, will we see any sun today . Some area...