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Of the money? working class people. >> only a minute left and i don't want to get away, until we talk about housing prices. home prices have also changed. the one area you want to see them go up and unfortunately they've done down from 169,000, basic overall housing price to 146. that is down 14%. >> right. let's be clear the president inherited a bad hand here as well and inherited a housing bubble that popped. the question is, has his policies made a bad situation worse? i think in the meantime, a lot of stopgap measures to try to prevent housing prices from going down and one thing about th...

Come over to the senate and will be passed so they can move on from this crisis and come back from the easter recess and work on a longer-term deal. jon? jon: yeah, we keep going to all these sort of short-term stopgap measures. i mean, what's going on in this congress? are they ever going to be able to come to a long-term deal on anything? >> reporter: you know what's interesting is these transportation bills, they used to put in pet projects to sweeten them to get people to vote on them, you know, the pork barrel spending, earmarks, that sort of thing. now that they're not doing that, they'v...

Iraq and afghanistan and can support that dhs-cbp mission. jenna: that is interesting. you think this is a move that will actually make us safer? >> i do long term. i don't think the reduction of, you know, 800 or 900 national guardsmen is really a huge impact across that southwest border right now, not when we doubled size of the border patrol and you have a lot more fence and a lot more technology. i am concerned long term, even the air assets are just a stopgap measures. those dod air assets can go away to other missions. they may not be the best fit for the job in some cases so long term w...

Still, these programs, these unemployment benefits are band-aids that millions of bleeding americans need, those who are the most vulnerable among our communities. and our next guest is a republican congressman, david schweikert, out of arizona. congressman, it's a pleasure to see you. i want to begin on something that i know that we agree to, because we've talked about this on a number of occasions, which is how can we be asked to continue to do these stopgap measures when we refuse to address the reason we have to do it, like reforms in the tax code. and i would like for you to connect the d...

Television and said on "morning joe" we're getting closer to a deal, republicans went crazy, house republicans saying we're not close at all. what's going on there? >> well, i do think that there are significant differences here. part of the problem now is starting to creep up on the republican side where it's very hard for house speaker john boehner to keep his troops together. the tea party wing, the more conservative wing of his party is getting tired of these stopgap measures and they want to be able to deliver a really bold number. and it's almost like as soon as -- if the democrats like ...