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Function of the people. that everyone who ran for congress or who was in congress was either not qualified or too ambitious. but that's always been a problem since the beginning of our republic. instead, i actually think the bigger problem is the process, the way in which power within the institution, starting in the 70s and accelerating in the 90s. so this has been a bipartisan evolution or failure in the institution has gone from the committees and the members and has been highly concentrated until the top. and as a result, every two years, you have people running saying, you know, we're goi...

Previous segment alluded to the fact that the house has the power of the purse. well, not exactly because we put most of the purse on auto pilot. over 70% of the federal budget. and we've shifted the power of the purse and ear marks doing away with that gave the power of the purse to a lot of unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch. >> congressman, what about the idea of basically of working a four or at least a five-day workweek for congress. in your atlantic piece, the other aspect of given the frustrations of many members of congress, including yourself, could you ever imagine what it...

Shake-ups to the staff. we're talking about ricardel, but he's on the verge of firing his homeland security had secretary, nielsen. he told aides during that very tumultuous trip to paris that he had decided to make a move on nielsen, that he decided to fire her. she remains in her job as of this morning, but could be gone any day now. he's obviously looking at replacing john kelly with nick ayers. interestingly on the flight back from paris to washington, on air force one, a number of the president's private aides went into the president's cabin lobbying against nick ayers. it's so much turmo...

There in the congressional delegation since the 1960s. mike, that is so long ago, that's when you got your first aarp card. >> well before that, joe. well before that. >> oh, my god, joe. >> thank you very much for reminding me of that and reminding people of that. that's very nice of you. >> i get mine in a week. but yeah, go ahead. >> what's really interesting about it is that we were clearly very premature in a lot of the election calls, you know, a week ago. campaigns are really important. all of these are individual victories rather than party victories. they become party victories. but t...

Washington, d.c. >> the first time in his life, he has nowhere else to go. still ahead, we'll talk to a lawmaker who says when he got to the house of representatives two years ago the problems weren't as bad as he expected. they were worse. we're going to hear his idea for salvaging congress. "morning joe" is coming right back. ngress "morning joe" is coming right back green book is the one movie, winning awards across the country. what are you doing? a letta. tell me what you're trying to say. i miss her. dear dolores, sometimes you remind me of a house. you know this is pathetic, right? au...