i'm patrick murphy.hen we left jason he was fighting to prove to himself and to the va that his recovery had not plateaued. now in part two, jason and his parents travel to the nation's capital to meet with a congressman and show that warriors never give up. ♪ >> taking jason down d.c. is a very good thing. he's very patriotic and to see the buildings, seeing the capitals seeing the white house, it will close the loop for him. what he did was meaningful. it wasn't for nothing. >> if there's any lesson that comes from watching the struggle of these wounded warriors come back it's this. this country needs to be ag stingier when it comes to sending our men and women into battle. >> wounded warrior project is committed to talking with our warriors and seeing what are the barriers, why are they facing these challenges and going to lawmakers and sharing those stories to let them know you know where changes need to be made. >> we're not doing as good a job as we need to and when you're in a bureaucracy it is sl

we'll have a table to discuss all of this, a capitol hill reporter and nbc contributor patrick murphyan from new york, hakim jeffreys. congressman, i'll start with you because the president here is being very proactive right now in reminding people what he is able to do to work around congress. he's really trying to counter the idea that washington is just gridlocked and nothing is possible. but i wonder as a members of congress how does that make you feel that -- i'm sure there's a lot on your agenda that you share with the president but you're dealing with a republican majority in the house that has nothing no common with you eat logically. how does it make you feel that it's up to the president to make these initiative us happen? >> i think there's two realities we confront, there's gridlock and then there's republicanism gone wild. gridlock is the reality of divided government. it will make things such as increasing the minimum wage comprehensive, immigration reform difficult to accomplish. that's not inconsistent with anything we've seen throughout our time here in america when y

. >> my name is patrick murphy. putdo you think that putin the winter olympics in a summer resort area only a few hundred miles from dagestan? that must have worried all of you somewhat, the fact that it was so close to terrorist land. >> again, remembering the seven-year window before the events are planned out or the venues are determined, seven years before hand. certainly, based on what dr. ohen said, the threat in that area were pervasive. i was kind of rooting for chicago to get the money 16 olympics. they ended up in brazil. since that time, we have scenes things in brazil that trouble us with soccer and other aspects, crime and such. that i don'ttors think anyone of us can fully understand. they come into play and there is certainly beyond my experience how those decisions are made. i am with you on some of those questions. >> any other -- yes? >> [indiscernible] what kind of role -- approximately 60 officers and embassies around the world, anywhere from one agent to a few agents providing liaison between th

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patrick foye, asked the port authority's inspector general to investigate any involvement of port authority police officers in the lane closures at the george washington bridge. joining me now is brian murphysor at baruch college and a former political reporter in new jersey. brian, you worked with steve kornacki on assembling this report. >> right. >> and the mystery character that was emerging in the documents that david wildstein had released with all those redactions in them that make them tough to work with was this character named chip. there were these referenced to chip. how did you figure out who chip is? >> i -- i've been going through these documents a little bit -- i don't want to say obsessively. >> go ahead, say obsessively. it's understandable. >> i thought there was something there and if i just kept reading them enough it would jump out. and i started making a big excel spreadsheet to make a timeline. and the chip reference in the text messages are about 200 pages apart. but on the timeline they're right next to each other. and i realized chip is the person who's sending these text messages. and that happened during a snow day on thursday. and i got very excited and sent s