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Right now on the democrats agenda. according to david scientist, david shore, who worked on obama's reelection campaign and consult with progressive groups, the most popular policy is allowing medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it is the number one policy of 194. it is in the multi trillion dollar bill that the democrats are proposing, the big reconciliation package with the climate change and safety net stuff. but three house democrats, kathleen rice of new york and others are threatening to kill it. those three members have received one point $6 million from the pharmaceutical i...

Be unpopular. then there are things that are good policy that are popular and part of politics, but part is for politicians to sort of figure out how to bring those two things together. to find stuff that's both popular and good. take the most popular policy right now. according to data scientist daft -- data scientist david shore, the most popular policy is allowing medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it's the number one policy of 194 that he has tested. it's in the multi-trillion dollar bill the democrats are proposing. the big reconciliation package with climate stuff and the sa...

Budget proposal. so that's realistic. there will probably be some kind of attempt to pass tax cuts in the budget. there's that. republicans have also talked a lot about reforming welfare and other social services. you heard paul ryan, the house speaker, make this part of his budget, he talks about it all the time. president trump has incorporated work requirements for food stamps. i wouldn't rule out seeing that in a budget. what you probably won't see though, elizabeth, is these big cuts to, you know, some of the safety net stuff like the low income heating assistance. that's not going to fly...

Have high school educations and about half of them are on means tested welfare when they get here which means that's not social security or medicare, that's, you know, i'm not going to use the word handouts but that's safety net stuff. all right? >> right. >> so that the statistics say that it's a lower economic person coming here. would you agree with that? >> i would agree with that i would also say it's part of american history. the irish the italians were down on their luck, high on ambition and on omichelle and hard work. frankly i would much rather have somebody who comes here from many ...

Huge difference. there's a spectrum about the safety net stuff. it's different constituencies. one of the things federalizing it does is ensures a basic guarantee of safety net. democratic governor from the great state of connecticut, a pleasure to have you. please come back. the world east most liberal marijuana regime is about to begin here in the united states. the world east most liberal. that's next. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf.