republican congressman tom reid here next. ♪ ♪ you know, i used to be good at this.0 and everything goes. tell me about it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're asking the right questions. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am i going to be okay." i like that. you may need glasses though. yeah. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today with td ameritrade. david: the president signing the bipartisan budget deal earlier this morning tweeting out, quote: without more republicans in congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we don't like or want in order to finally, after many years of depletion, take care of our military. sadly, we needed some democratic votes for passage, must elect more republicans in 2018 election. here now is republican congressman tom reid, member of the house ways and means committee. well, republicans aren't going to be able to keep the house if the eco

because, tom reid, i notice there you said money for border security and democrats will agree we need more money for border security. what we don't need money for is a wall. >> well, i think when you have the conversation, honestly, across the table, people recognize structures are part of border security. if you want to call it a wall, i'm not going to get caught up in the semantics. >> but the white house has said over and over can't be a fence, it's got to be a wall. in terms of negotiating, can you negotiate with the white house that does have a hard-line stance? >> what we chose to call it a structure, the white house wants to call it a wall, i'll let that -- if that's the breaking point of not getting a deal done, i don't think that's going to be a barrier of the ultimate conclusion of resolving this issue for the american people. if you legislate it the way we did, as problem solvers caucus, over months of time, respecting each other and getting it to a conclusion that i think is reasonable and solves problems. not 100% perfect but 80% is a victory, not a defeat. >> good faith,

is, blake burman at white house this morning joining us right now, talk more new york congressman tom reid your reaction to what took place. >> well you know i have also a -- watched the senate like everyone else, the problem is that you got to get six more votes, and incumbent upon senate to resolve this issue they came up short they should keep working at it in my himh humble opinion. >> should president eep eep keep working on it surelyly you have seen "the wall street journal" op-ed titled president miller's immigration veto editorial board blames president for being inabout flexible or infliction. >> whatever happened to art of the deal, if mr. trump isn't happy with everything in collins-rounds bill why not engage negotiate, congressman? >> i think, absolutely we have been doing this in problem solver for compromise xhl numerous conversations with white house coming up with bipartisan proposal home can see light of day in the highways we have to wait on senate to act i think the white house wants to do a deal they want to get to yes, but they came up six short on closest package goin

tom thomhomas wi story. >> cold. i'm going to go with cold. >> reporter: joanne reid you quickly learn after meeting her, has a great like any athlete at her level, when the competition starts, she is all business. reid, though, has a back story like few others in this sport. a cross-country skier in college, reid had decided to give up elite sports. but then her grandfather was diagnosed with alzheimer's, and as a precaution, weapons were removed from his home. including a biathlon rifle. it ended up in reid's hands, and so she thought she would give biathlon a try. >> two years and two months ago was my first. yeah. >> reporter: and here you are. >> and here i am. >> reporter: here she is. competing with a rifle inscribed with the lakota word for grandfather, competing in his honor. >> yeah. i had always wanted to do this for him. i'm not sure how much he understands right now. if he understands that i'm here. because of that. but i like to think somewhere -- somewhere in there, he knows. >> reporter: garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> you should be sure to follow along with garvin's coverage of the winter olymp

my view, tom, and you may differ, i think it's all part and parcel of the long series of partisan confrontations and bitterness has ensued from it. senator macconnell i said i told harry reid he would regret the nuclear option, and i'm sure he sometimes does regret the nuclear option. these problem arise when you have leaders that can't talk to each other. this isn't working well. let's talk about what we need to do. [inaudible] >> we haven't talked a lot about the trump administration , but you spend the second half of your book talking about what it was like on the inside for the first seven or eight months of 2013 part of your narrative is so properly focused on the loss of norms and the lack of civility in the coarseness of politics and dialogue, largely emanating from the white house and presidents treats which you hold republicans as enablers. to what extent has the loss of norms and respect in the process itself, how much of that has pervaded this whole environment and how concerned should we be about that? how irreversible is it? >> think we should be hugely concerned about it and it comes back to the point i made initially that we have an unusual president and it'

but in my view tom i think it's all part and parcel of a long series of partisan confrontations and bitterness that has ensued from it. senator mcconnell is fond of saying i told harry reid that he would regret the nuclear option and i'm sure harry reid does sometimes forget the nuclear option but these problems arise when you have leaders that can't talk to each other. the senate was facing difficult times even when you were a leader but i believe it's very possible u.n. trent lott would have started by saying this is not working well, let's talk about what we might need to do. that conversation could never happen between reed and mcconnell. that conversation didn't happen between schumer and mcconnell because it can't happen with anyone and mcconnell so that's a real problem. >> host: we have talked a lot about the trump administration but you spend the second half of your book talking about what it was like on the inside for that first seven or eight months and 2017. part of your narrative i think is so appropriately focused on the loss of the normal and the lack of civility and the coarseness of politics and dialogue largely emanating from the white house and the pre

tom, and you may differ. i think it is all part and parcel of the long series of partisan confrontations and bitterness that has ensued from it. senator mcconnell is probably signature, told harry reid he would regret the nuclear option. and i'm sure that harry reid sometimes does regret the nuclear option. but, these problems arise when you have leaders that cannot talk to each other. the senate was going, facing difficult times even when you were a leader. but i believe that it's very possible that you and trent lott would have started the year by saying this isn't working well. let's talk about what we might need to do. there is a conversation that never happened between reid and mcconnell. not a conversation that can happen between schumer and mcconnell. because it can't happen between anyone and mcconnell. so that is a real problem. >> we have not talked a lot about the trump administration. you spend the second half of your both talking about what it was like on the inside for that first separate months of 2017. part of the narrative i think is so probably focused on the loss of norms and the lack of civility and just coarseness of politics and dialogue largely emanating from