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Advantage? because i know you covered this. you know a lot of staffers. what's the advantage of having staffers on the hill who know how the system works and have been there for a long time instead of a revolving door of 20 somethings coming in and out? >> it empowers all of us, it empowers the taxpayers, the constituents for that member. that member of congress has somebody who's worked on the hill for ten or 15 years as opposed to somebody who's only there two or three years, then they can talk to the lobbyists who comes in and have a real back and forth on the issues of policy and where and...

Has just created and it has stayed that way now for almost ten years. so it's just created an overall flat line in the staff pay. so you're paying $50,000 is the median salary now. ten years ago, it was $47,000 and change. that's been almost no increase in staff pay as the cost of living here has probably doubled. so how are you? what are you going to do? what you end up seeing, they've got stats now, these legistorms show the percentage of 20 and 30 somethings on the hill is going down and 20 somethings are going up. >> it's counterintuitive to think of members of congress and staffers as the...

The year! jason, tiffany and e.j. are back with me. e.j. dionne, who won the year. >> you're going to tell us that ed koch won the year? >> i want to hear that. >> tease. tease. >> no, the clear winners of the year were the grassroots activists who from the day donald trump was inaugust gaur rated started organizing in their neighborhoods, precincts, ee sbegsly important in places where they were in a minority to protect our democracy. we're talking about the mothers and the veterans, students and teachers, the religious and secular, indivisibles and run for somethings and all the other groups...

Help candidate trump in is russia trying to under mine our society any way they can. we need to understand that and somethings that to be don't about it. next time it could be a democrat candidate they're supporting, everyone loses when an intelligence service is prevadipreva prevading our homes and laptops. >> a couple things jump out here. first it is that lawmakers on capitol hill are pretty unsettled. they feel like they only scratched the surface. it is not just football, it was papal, and reddit. they were selling t-shirts as a way to fund their operations.

Million to help farmers expand into foreign markets, also keeps farmer safety nets including crop insurance and subsidies in case crop prices drop. allocates $2.5 billion into research into somethings like organic farming and pest control and new addition to the farm bill this year, legalization of hemp which was pushed by majority leader mitch mcconnell. that provision would remove hemp from the list of controlled substances. here he is signing the provision with his fancy hemp pen. but the provision now means that hemp would be recognized as an actual crop, which means hemp farmers could rec...