colleagues, considering the urgency of this motion, i hope we can support these items today. would like to thank chelsea and carlina for all their hard work on this issue. and in support of our immigrant communities all the time. thank you very much. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor fewer. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, i wanted to thank supervisor fewer for taking the lead on the legislation and being such a fierce champion for the immigrant community since you joined the board a little over a year ago. thank you for your leadership, supervisor fewer and your staff, chelsea. i've been working in the immigrant rights movement for the past 15 years and never have i seen the president of the united states specifically attack san francisco or any city in this country because he disagrees with policy that our city has toward immigrants. just in the past few months, president trump has revoked temporary protective status for 50,000 immigrants. he's eliminated daca, impacting a million dreamers. he's tripled the number of immigration officers through immi

i hope i hope that the that these kids out there these seventeen eight year old kids sixteen younger who are taking this movement and running with it i just hope don't let the adults hijack it no i don't think i'll stick to your guns don't let all the adults come in and hijack it and turn it into a you know a commercial one nike you know i'm a commercial down the line you don't want that keep appear and keep speaking your mind. all right as we go to break our quadrant don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered a base book and twitter see our poll shows that are to dot com coming up we have deep into the burn pits of iraq and afghanistan with documentary greg love it and burnt the victim military factor in the jesse baka you don't want to miss this so stay tuned for watching the hawks. they're not ones that. don't want my next nights out the definitions you know i'm back. when seeking i mean south. and. taking the equal sitting. down and then you're just going to bring. at least that kind of. movie right now i think. i'm going to you know let me. just get f

i hope we rise to the moment before us and get something done to try to make the country safer over the course of the next week or two. i will be glad to go and join the president in a few hours to hear more about this thought on how we can put the safety of our kids ahead of any political considerations to make sure parkland is the last. in newtown connecticut that place has been fundamentally changed when you lose that many young lives in a short period of time there is no true recovery and unfortunately they will find that as charleston did in orlando and so many before them. we need to remember while the country can pay attention to the epidemic of gun violence and when there is a mass shooting this is an epidemic that does not take a day off. yesterday likely b to 90 people died from gunshot wound is. that is an epidemic in and of itself. another chunk of them were homicide i. it is 20 times higher than the average. you are more likely to die from accidental gunshots in a school shooting. we have to be comprehensive in our approach which is why the act just is not good enough. to m

i hope you agree they need one, i don't think we've gotten it yet. i hope you can help us get one. thank you. >> thank you. senator cassidy. >> secretary, how are you? >> how are you, sir? >> this committee advanced the small-scale lng access act of 2017 allowing greater access to liquefy natural gas. a rule announced last september this bill to put a plug in it benefits american workers, the american economy, american geopolitics, and lowers global greenhouse gas emissions. so there's some objections that somehow this would raise domestic natural gas prices. but according to the cia world fact book, the entire energy demand of all caribbean nations combined is 1.2% of the u.s. given that only small-volume projects are eligible to benefit from the legislation and the 1.2%, the low energy demand, what do you think will be the impact of this legislation on u.s. natural gas prices? >> in a simple statement, i would suggest it would be minuscule even if identifiable at all. >> how do you think this would impact the energy markets that we're targeting, those in the caribbean and central

leahy: i hope so. i hope so. in fact i worry very much about any lobby that is basically a single issue lobby. on either the right or left. i think that has created a problem to the fact that since citizens united the fact that , one single issue group on the right or left can have too much of a control. a lot of it has been on the right with the koch brothers. they are trying to take over state legislatures, governors offices, and the house and and in washington. let's go back to having actual people having a voice. and i think you see these young people are people in that sense. they don't care about the lobbies. they care about being safe and going to school. i think of my own grandchildren, when they go to school, i want them safe. i think every parent wants them safe. can you imagine being a parent, and you hear there's been a shooting at a school and you go there and find your child is the who you will never speak to again? nobody should have to face that. anna: we spoke a lot about domestic issues and unpr

i hope we build upon in the coming days. thank you, mr. president. i yield. >> mr. president? >> the senator from texas. >> i understand there's a bill at the deskse do for second reading. >> the senator is correct. >> the clerk will read the title of the bill for a second time. >> s2464 a bill to improve border security and so forth. >> in order to place the bill on the counter of the provisions of rule 14 i 14 i would object to further proceeding. >> objection having been heard, bill would be placed on the calendar.ld be placed on the >> thank you, mr. president. mr. president, -- as my colleague from connecticut is here in the room and mentioned the bill that we've been working on together, the fix nics bill, i just want to remind all of us what the motivation was at least on my part for introducing this legislation and express my gratitude to the senator from connecticut as well as the democratic leader, senator schumer and others have cosponsored this legislation. it was just a few short months ago when someone murdered 26 people worshiping in a small church just outside

i hope that will not apply to these two top jobs that will get filled quickly. [inaudible] >> we are very supportive of the taylor forest act and i hope we will be able to enact into law one way or another in the very near future. >> thank you. do you have any on tears, whether it's senator flake still to fight back on the tariffs. >> the trade issue as all of you know -- >> the u.s. senate gaveling back in. we will show you the briefing later on. we take you live to th the senate floor here on c-span2. chieve

i hope he weighs in on this. i am very worried about the economic consequences for the region if we unilaterally withdrawal. i know you brief me and we are trying to work on a good deal and all of that, but i think if we get to the place where there's frustration and we go down the road of unilateral withdrawal, that would be very, very unfortunate. have you ever toured the border region in new mexico, texas, or arizona? secretary ross: surely. i've had businesses in those states so i have some familiarity with it. senator udall: ok. i would encourage you in your current position to come down. i don't know if you've done that as secretary. you've been in i think a year. i think it would really open your eyes. i know that you and you briefed me on how you and trade rep light hicer have been working with the mexicans and all that. now in your position, i mean, people view you as a key person so i hope you will come down. i will clear my schedule to go down and try to do anything i can to introduce you to folks down

robert: any projects that you hope to line up? sarah: i have a television pilot that i'm working on right now. robert: oh, very good, very good, yeah. ultimately, when you finish this project, are you still on connection, like, with the people that you worked with? like, what are the actors--how has it impacted them? sarah: i'm in contact with them over facebook mostly, so our lead actor, biak, who plays arun, he'll be at the festival. he'll be at the premiere. he didn't arrive in time for this interview, unfortunately. that would've been fun, but he'll be at the premiere, and i also just hear from other people that are in their lives, so these students are in college now, and as far as i know, not pursuing film, but they're doing really well. robert: you probably had a real positive impact on them so-- sarah: i hope so. robert: well, congratulations on being a filmmaker, and good luck at cinequest. sarah: thank you. thank you for having me. robert: well, "arun" is part of the cinequest screening on march 4 and 8, at 3below in san jose; an

i just hope that those two countries sit down together and work out their differences. swer is question. as you believe -- i also believe common sense will prevail. clearly the next 35 to 60 days will be essential in that regard. >> i think for the international stability of the trading system, it's critical that china stop stealing intellectual property. not only from america but from the rest of the world. pernicious this practice, european and american company wants to go to china to sell into that market, guess what? it's a minority joint venture and surrender of their technology. that doesn't work for long-term corporate growth and earnings. so all the president is doing, all president trump is doing is asking for fair and reciprocal trade, free trade, fair and reciprocal so we can can have stability in this international trading system it. right now we have massive trade imbalances driven by unfair trade and he's going to change that. >> one final question. i hope you answer it it otherwise my producer will shout at me. let's try and go there. the chinese, the unit

i hope that he stays. when i mentioned the concern all of us have, some of it is unspoken, that if there is a team of rivals, and maybe rivaling who can agree with the president more to put yourself in a better position. that is not what we need in any area, but in particular with regard to our national security. we have been in good hands with general mcmaster, with rex tillerson, and with general mattis. they are advising the president. after that hearing, i did come away comforted at the protocols we have in place. we need to make sure we follow those protocols. >> thank you for coming to new hampshire. i am going to hold you accountable to your own family motto -- look to the good. what has president trump done well in your opinion? [laughter] sen. flake: we were trying to get a solution on daca. these are the kids who were brought across the border through no fault of their own and have been left in limbo for a long time. arizona has about 50,000 of them. 800,000 registered in the program and a lot mor

>> i certainly hope it is a negotiating stance. said of nuclear wars, trade wars can never be won and must never be fought. >> does it change your calculation and policy at this point? >> i don't think the impacts are large enough to affect the view on the fed. >> rio tinto is concerned about trade tensions between the u.s. and china. as much as 90% of the products move between the two countries. the ceo said a trade war would affect global gdp. >> for us, trade is absolutely essential. we believe in fair trade and we believe in free trade. there is no doubt that if you want to create wealth, free trade is an important driver. if you look at the example of the mining business, it is absolutely essential. we have two key drivers for business. one is gdp, which is doing well at this point in time. the other is trade. let me give you an example. 80% to 90% of our product at rio tinto is moving from one country to another. trade is essential. in the recent announcement of last night, clearly if you are going to ask me if i am concerned

do t so while we continue to debate a work on the issues that we do not agree on and that's what i hope we will do. that is what i commit to do everything i can to achieve. without mr. president i yield the floor. >> at a capitol news conference in the beinart aviator chuck schumer and failed the democratic proposal on guns that includes closing loopholes in improving the gun background check system. this is 15 minutes. >> i'm everybody. thank you for waiting. everyone ready? good morning. i'm sure many of you in this room and many americans around the country watched the president's meeting on gun violence yesterday and were rather stunned and surprised. many of us were -- by what we saw. first event to give credit where credit is due. the president's that a lot of things right yesterday. he seemed to strongly endorse universal background checks, to

i hope the answer to these questions is yes. symbolism matters, especially today. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisors, for hearing this item today. i wanted to especially thank my supervisor, supervisor ronen, for carrying on the hard work of my former supervisor, supervisor campos in bringing this forward. i remember a rally for years ago standing on the steps of city hall with our milk sfo signs and, you know, i am a excited -- we've finally gotten somewhere thanks to your leadership, so thank both of you. we name things after politicians all the time. i hope that you supervisors someday have a school or a rec center or something here in the city or your districts named after you. but i think that this is -- this is a pretty unique moment. this is a unique opportunity to name a piece of our city that is truly a gateway to us from the world after an elected official who means something to lgbtq people and marginalized folks around the globe. it's an opportunity at a time when our country and our world seems increasingly da

i hope it gains republican support. i really do. if republicans mean what they say, they should join baldwin's amendment, as i said before, but i want to repeat it for the benefit of all of my good republican friends. the glut of corporate share buybacks precisely -- highlights precisely how the corporate tax cut in the republican bill is being put to ill use. rather than stimulating the economy, creating jobs, raising pay, corporations spend the lion's share of the tax savings on goosing hair -- on goosing their stock. americans are scratching their heads wondering why we put ourselves in debt so corporations can further enrich themselves, why we tell our children and grandchildren you're going to pay for the c.e.o. of exxon's pay raise or increase the value because the stock's going up. that doesn't make sense at all. there are much better uses for the money. yesterday democrats announced our plan to help build $1 trillion of infrastructure in america, desperately needed infrastructure. and how do we pay for it? we unwind some of

i hope i answered that question.atlanta public schools desegregate august none 1951. difference being now, here's my question, when i was growing opposers part of program called the empty program where i was bussed and i attended warren t. jackson. when the empty m. program dissolved which is atlanta public schools fit kids were forced to go back to their community school. what do you think can be done to improve the relationship between children? they don't have interactions regularly with people that don't look like them. >> this is a really big question. i want to share something with you briefly. i didn't go to school with white children from 7th to 12th grade. one of the things that came from that all of the friends that i had up to the 7th grade, i not seen them since 1990. it really presented some things where it showed -- it took away my childhood. with you asking that question, i think about alonzo crim i think the creation maze high school. how maze opened up to providing the kind of programs for black stud

i hope they will protect jews. in a particular case. if the police and the cps in the home office and there's they will plan to discuss it. i know that this is a case that he is taken up and championed for some time. met and discussed previously. i'm obviously willing to meet him and discuss that case again. i think there should be a very clear message from all of us in this house that there is no place for racial hatred. this should not be part of our society if it is something we should all stand up against and do our best to erect -- eradicate. it is an example of love, compassion from which we can all benefit. shortly i will be meeting with them. with the house today. will the prime minister give the house and assurance so none of that will be made on the passport contract. so that this house may discuss that. >> when there wasn't urgent question. on the matter that they raised. the final decision is not being taken. there is a proper protest gives them the challenges for them to be brought forward by others in the process. to have t

thought you were talking about "cnn." >> ambassador bolton i hope you can expand into russia and the middle east and dr. jesser feel free to just ignore me. if you guys want to jump in feel free to jump in. >> i think the mueller indictment last friday is a potentially very important opportunity for the top administration in dealing with russia in its various threats. i think the president is rightly concerned politically that they endless drumbeat of the media that the russian information campaign which supported trump for president, that there was so much of it that people would come logically and incorrectly to the conclusion that the trump campaign must be colluded-- colluding with russia pretty good and have that campaign without knowing trump's campaign was involved in the mueller indictment while it's far from the last word but there's still a lot we don't know but in this 100 paragraphs of explanation eliminates at least as far as we know both of those elements. there is no allocation of collusion by the trump campaign or anybody else. and it's

i hope it is. t that close to how it's set up. >> i have another set of problems in regards to potential retaliatory actions and i'll use mccormick splice as ice. they source as much as they can in our country but you can't move the equator and they need products from other countries in order to have their spices and that's exactly the type of concern we have that they could be targeted for retaliatory actions that they have no choice. what do i tell mccormick? >> i don't know enough about they buy spies. a lot of places presumably where they buy spices are not going to be on the list where they're going to be significantly affected by the 232 in aluminum or steel. one that does come to mind where they probably do is india. i would presume india. once again, i'm not an expert in the spice industry but at least i remember from the old days the whole space trade, the whole opium trade was basically started with europeans getting spice out of india and selling it in china so that's my frame of referenc

>> i hope so. i mean, talking to my colleagues all along, it was, you know,, once he goes after mueller, then we'll take action. i think that people see that as a massive red line that can't be crossed. so i hope that that's the case. and i would just hope that enough people would prevail on the president now, don't go there. don't go there. we have confidence in mueller. i certainly do. and i think my colleagues do, as well. so i hope that the pushback is now to keep the president from going there. >> let's turn now to something else that mueller's looking into, which was covered in a bombshell report in "the new york times" and another one in "the guardian" newspaper. the conservative data firm, cambridge analytica, which worked with the trump campaign in 2016, facebook is now accusing the company of fraudulently obtaining data from more than 50 million americans and then lying about it. we know mueller is looking into cambridge analytica as part of this investigation. what questions might you hav

i hope our colleagues will think thoughtfully about this resolution to insist a debate takes place or that belongs initially with the senate foreign relations committee i talked to senator and he believes he the senate could make a good decision after giving the committee an opportunity to have hearings and consider all of the intended and unintended consequences of thisce resolution. i know our colleagues meanwhile and intentions are good but sometimes in the area of international conflict and global interactions with different countries sometimes our actions beget the unintended consequence and it is good to be safe in the first place to take this matter to the senate foreign relations committee right have every confidence that senator corker as the chairman and ranking member menendez can guide the members of the committee through a process to help us in the end make a better decision. mr. president, i yield the floor and i note the absence of a quorum. e dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. murphy: you thank you,

. >> i hope if i do something very odd, i hope laura is my -- laura is giving the benefit of the doubt, which is kind. i'll play the devil on the other shoulder which is it doesn't strike me that this was a hugely calculated move by sam nunberg. and i would argue that the reversal so quickly cancelling his television appearances today, saying, oh, no, no, it's all good. yesterday? don't worry about that, that was nothing. it all struck me this was someone who was in a rage or angry, or to rachel's point, just something off. i just don't think -- and who knows. roger stone, who is the president's mentor, is the king. maybe it was that, but my read watching it is that this was just someone who was acting without any consequence. and once the obvious legal consequence set in, it was kind of like, you don't have to comply to it, but there are real with teeth consequences to not complying. >> let's get to some other issues that have come up today. as you know, last august the house and the senate overwhelmingly passed sanctions against russia because of its election meddling 98-2 in the sen

i hope you'll reconsider that. i do want to ask you about hamburg because you on march 6th, the project direct your for the waste treatment plant sent private construction contract term a letter demanding that the company explained why it couldn't document that the steel used at the plant was up this safety standards. the project director said that this was a potentially unrecoverable quality issue. basically what that means in english as they couldn't open the plant after billions of dollars have been spent in decades of effort if that was actually the case. 's mr. hamill would transfer and i like to believe the best in people. but it is hard to see about was a coincidence. i'm going to ask a couple yes or no questions. i want mr. hamill to promptly provide the committee with a detailed history and explanation about this potentially devastating safety issue at the treatment plan that hasn't yet treated amounts of waste. i would like you to make mr. hamill available to us so to us so that we can ask them directly, w

i hope it is, and i hope we get it done without further delay. i know to: here's a look at live events for tuesday. interior secretary ryan zinke e testifies about his department's budget request. the house comes in at noon eastern to improve access to experimental treatments for patients. that the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. on a financial deregulation bill. c-span3, the commanders of the u.s. central command and africa command testify about the 2019 budget request. then, education secretary betsy devos on school violence talking at the national pta legislative congress. that is at 2:30 p.m. eastern. then, former british prime minister david cameron testifies about global security. >> sunday on c-span's to a day, colorado college professor tom cronin talks about his book "imagining a great republic." real major part of politics is empowering in terms of this country standing for something very special. these great people are reminding. saying, our tribe wants to be something special. not just a city but i city who cares for and loves one another

we've got another crop coming on, i hope. but that crop should be on the kansas city southern railway headed for mexico. and i think probably at this juncture, i'd like to give you a little farm report. wichita, kansas, the latest government crop reports estimates that about 1% of the wheat in kansas is in excellent condition. 1%. 10% is good. all the rest is poor or very poor. that assessment comes at the same time the topsoil and moisture supplies were rated as short or very short across 81% of our state. i don't know what we did to mother nature. she sure isn't being very helpful. we are dry. we're having a drought. we have wheat at the dodge city elevator hovering around $4. it was $7 about 3 years ago. we even have an eastern colorado and western kansas, a hotline for people that are considering suicide. now, that's pretty bad. i mean, that's a very dire situation. we have a situation, however, that is being recognized by the white house and yourself. we just had a good visit before that. thank you for being very candid.

[laughing] you know, briefly, i hope i'm wrong. could know for sure that something to happen after i die and after we die. i really hope that there is a heaven and i can see my father again. i really do what i don't know. so it's like a prayer, right? thank god that we have the supreme court and thank god that we of congress and that we have healthy news media and with social media and that, i've been thinking about that. a donald trump in other countries that i've known would be terrible because that president would be citing absolutely everything. it is unfair because of all the economic circumstances to compare venezuela to the united states, but i think what happens when one person takes over, i saw what happened in cuba. can you believe it? since 1959 they have the same,, just two brothers. that's a dictatorship and we saw the same thing in venezuela happening now before it was chavez. i'm very hopeful and espied by what's happening in this country by seeing all of you here. we are not accepting what they're telling us to do,

but him or her to horace we are very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like don't which i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart and mindful as demand will never change. the u.s. campaign against al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan has been ongoing for the past sixteen years as started under george w. bush as part of the so-called war on terror the latest un report on the country is a sobering one documenting over ten thousand civilian casualties last year alone speaking at the afghan capital this week the u.s. defense secretary said america is no longer safe king and military solution. all were people. who would keep a record nobody would call records so we gave out a military victory the victory will be with the record that we gave. the taliban will pay a price our military action is also designed to clear the way for sustained comprehensive and relentless operations to drive them out and bring them to justice the truth is this is not really about actually recognizing. the senselessness of thi

i hope so, anyway. she said, do you know what an erogenous zone is? ed on, the place used to go up and he hadn't even said anything yet. now, that doesn't happen very often. how tickled we were. how tickled we are. he would fire the gags out at you like a machine—gun. in 1965, he was at the top of the charts. only the beatles outsold him. we call it "hur" in liverpool, thejudy with the "fur hur". # tears for souvenirs... and home was the house he was born in, in knotty ash in liverpool, and where he finally married his partner anne just three days ago. i've been overwhelmed by love and affection, which i have already received from dear friends and the public. i thank you all for being here. he also famously had his troubles with the inland revenue. he was eventually acquitted. the job i fancy is chancellor of the exchequer — at least i'd be reunited with my money! ken dodd — one of our last links to the world of music hall. an era really has come to an end. remembering sir ken dodd who has died at the age of 90. that's a summary of the news. now on bbc

the numbers have been rising and i hope they will go higher. ground --ful to the democratic leader of new york, he is a cosponsor of this bill. , i have neverell seen a piece of legislative like gun rights, get such broad bipartisan support. it is the unique. we are to be grateful that we found a place where we have such broad bipartisan agreement, and a provision that will save lives. the shooter is sutherland springs had gone into the gun store and he lied, but the background check system works as it was supposed to work he would not happen in to legally purchase a gun. each of these tragedies involves different circumstances. the shooters are different and obtain firearms in different ways and use them to perpetrate their crimes. i have talked about the shooter in sutherland springs who was convicted of a felony after choking and kicking his wife and .racking his stepsons skull he was discharged from the military other than honorably. he was detained at a mental health facility because he was mentally ill. he was able to lie his way into poss

i hope that such cavalier statements were due to ignorance rather than racism. feel certain from studying the painting, that the painter's motives from more positive. the figures depicted over that prone native american male are on their way to settle the western u.s. and they're painted in kind of ghostly grays. they're the only deathly hued people in the sickle that covers thousands of square feet in the lobby. the leftist political views likely led him to -- >> how much time do they have for public comment tonight. >> we're at 2 minutes. >> that was already two? forgive me. bob, can i take -- >> you need to wrap it up. >> i would like to say what my ideas for remedy are because that was why i came. >> you can't take more than two minutes. you can provide that in a written statement. your two minutes are up. i need to have the next speaker, please. robert. thank you. >> yes, my name is robert. i'm a professor of merits from san francisco state. last spring i published a biography, and i made some copies of some relevant parts for the members of the board becaus

some, i hope, with more elections yet to win. to be my age, i think the most important thing is, how do you keep score? the methodists follow john wesley scorekeeping, you have to help all the people you can in all the ways you can whenever you can. show up every day and make something happen. zell miller believed in government. he believed government should offer hope and opportunity. out.d up, not a hand never left our part. party. he also believed that we owe people who disagree with us human decency, human and -- respect, presumption that their motives are just as good as ours, their objectives for the future are just as honorable as ours, too much of that is gone now. the first thing i want to say about my friend is, beyond what i owe and what he did, he kept score in what i think was the right way. respected public service as an honorable endeavor. he thought every great country needed an effective government that offered hope and a hand up. he did not believe that people who disagreed with him by party were by definition b

i hope this is an issue that will pop up on your radar screen. 't expect it to be your first issue but i hope it isn't completely ignored because it is a complete problem there has been anyone resolution and the clean seas initiative the international marine debris conference has been initiated in a go by d2 there is already an action plan so there is progress in force that would be consistent with the trade association had made a new marine plastic pledge and 74 plastic associations gathered together with the global plastic association including the american chemistry council as they made a declaration so you wouldn't be going against the screen but with it with our international partners and i take this time with you tois urge you put this on your list of issues. not necessarily at the top but if we can't be helpful let's push in to make sure they clean up their act. >> i am generally aware of the problem but more specifically aware of it now and we will look atly it. >> the tariffs on teal with the finished product there are folks in korea to t

i hope that people like you can talk the president out of these tariffs. i understand the impulse, but i think long term it's the wrong one. what do you think? >> this man has said numbers of things i haven't agreed with over the past and every time it's proven that i've been wrong, not he. he negotiates positions, deregulates, he gets the tax bill in place. i mean he's done all of these wonderful things and i never thought that could happen but he did it. it did happen, it was wonderful. and of course you're correct. tariffs are no answer to anything. why should you deprive american consumers of high quality products at low cost. but if he says that, he can't negotiate with canada or with mexico on the rotten deal that is called nafta. that deal is a very very bad deal for the united states and also by the way for canada and mexico. and it's really bad. but how can he negotiate if he tells us that he really isn't going to do it. kennedy: let's talk about that. you're saying it could be an fixing nafta. how do you fix nafta so you have truly free trade goin

i hope it is, because i like to see our party in the majority.hene of the issues is deficit, not just discretionary spending but mandatory programs. i was wondering if you could see a political coalition that would be the right kind of combination , whether it is democrats in the senate and republicans in the house or vice versa. what do policymakers need to make those changes to make mandatory programs sustainable? >> we need something like what we saw in the past with conservative senator -- and liberal senator pat meehan coming together to save social security. it is just one example that shows it can be done. we just put together an enormous tax cut bill that favors only of theercentages republic, possesses them -- favors them. that's not a good way to start. is it necessary? yes. toin, you are going to have tell those special interests on the right and left, tell us what you think and we will make the decision. can't be done? i've seen it done in the past. i've seen a lot less of it today. is that kind of ideological compromise possible? >>