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Federal deficit despite steep cuts to social programs. One of the motivations was to stop the obama deficit string and now the republicans are doing just as bad. Everybody says congress is spending money like a drunk sailor. Thats not true. A drunk sailor stops when he runs out of money. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to your new day. Its tuesday, february 13th, 8 00 in the east. The white house insists President Trump supports victims of Domestic Violence. Every Public Statement and tweet from the president has been sympathetic toward the accused, the top aide who was forced to resign. One week into this scandal, the white house still refuses to say if the president believes rob porters exwhooifs, nor will the white house give us any details about exactly when top officials learned about these abuse allegations. Let me just check. My suggestion is the president has stepped into a thicket thats too thorny to avoid. Hes going to have to fix it. Not yet this morning. Another thing he has the to deal with. The president put out a 4. 4 trillion budget and getting a lot of scrutiny within his own party. Conservatives are blasting the deal because its projected to add trillions of dollars to the deficit on top of the trillions of dollars that the tax cuts are going to put on over the next decade. This morning, the president is focusing on immigration. Hes tweeting that this is the last chance to fix daca. So will congress be able to get a deal in three weeks . Thats the question. We have it all covered. Lets begin with Cnns Abby Phillip live at the white house with the stop story. Big morning to be down there, abby. Reporter good morning, chris. Were one week into the scandal over the Domestic Abuse allegations against rob porter and the white house is still mired in controversy. We still havent gotten a clear and consist explanation about who knew what and when about these allegations against porter. The president and the entire administration take Domestic Violence very seriously and believe all allegations need to be investigated thoroughly. Reporter press secretary Sarah Sanders defending President Trump after he expressed sympathy for accused Domestic Abuser rob porter but said nothing about his alleged victims. The president supports victims of Domestic Violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly and with due process. Reporter sanders reading a statement she says was dictated to her by the president , but thats not what mr. Trump publicly said. Obviously a tough time for him. Tfs very sad when we heard about it and certainly hes also very sad. Now, he also, as you probably know, he says hes innocent. And i think you have to remember that. We absolutely wish him well. Reporter sanders addressing this tweet from the president a day later calling for due process for the accused. Hes not taking a side necessarily one way or the other on any specific irk you. Hes talking about mere allegations shouldnt be the determining factor for any individual, that there should be due process. Reporter the conflicting remarks leaving several Party Officials who spoke to cnn confused about mr. Trumps stance. A former Campaign Official telling cnn, i dont understand why the white house is hedging on condemning Domestic Abuse. A member of the central park five wrongly convicted of beating and raping a jogger in 1989 accusing the president of hypocrisy for demanding due process for alleged abuser but calling for the central park five defendants. What were seeing is clearly there are two separate americas, one america for blacks and people of color and another america for whites and people of affluence. Reporter porters exwife criticizing Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Sanders response to the allegations writings in an op ed, while i cannot say im surprised, i expected a woman to do better, specifically citing conways statement she is not concerned about White House Communications director hope hicks who is in a relationship with porter. Im sorry for any suffering this woman has endured. But in the case of hope, ive rairly met somebody so strong with such excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts. Reporter holderness writing that her statement applies those in abusive relationships are not strong. This as the white house continues to insist that senior officials only learned about the, quote, extent of the allegations last tuesday. Cnn reported that White House Counsel Don Mcgahn knew porters exwives could present damaging information on him to the fbi. Chief of staff john kelly learned about the allegations last november as porter struggled to get approval for a full security clearance. President trump, do you have a et having problem. Reporter sanders blaming the fbi for the backlog of dozens of white house staffers continuing to work without permanent clearances. President trump is normally never shy about making his opinions known, were still waiting for him to weigh in on believing Domestic Abuse victims on social media or other forms. He has a couple of meetings today, one with a grew of sheriffs and one on africanamerican history month. It has been suggested the group with the sheriffs would be the Perfect Place to bring it up. Domestic abuse huge in the africanamerican community. We have cnn political analyst David Gregory and chief Political Correspondent dana bash. I want to talk about what Colby Holderness said. She is speaking out it seems because she was so motivated by what Kellyanne Conway told jake tapper. Jake asked if shes worried about hope hicks, now in a romantic relationship with rob porter, if shes worried about hope hicks being abused somehow. Kellyanne conway said no, basically, shes a strong woman. I dont know about her. His first wife writes, her statement implies that those in Domestic Abuse situations are not strong. The abuse can be terrifying, life threatening and almost constant or it can ebb and flow with no violence for long periods. Its often the subtler forms of abuse that inflict serious persistent damage while making it hard for the victim to see the situation clearly. She goes on. For me, living in constant fear of robs anger, being subjected to his degrading tirades for years, im walked away a shell of a person i was when i went into it. It took me a long time to realize the toll his behavior has taken on me. Rob has denied the abuse, but Jennifer Willoughby and i know differe different. Making it about the broader reality of Domestic Violence and the cycle of violence and who it ends up affecting. Maybe some people who are, quote, unquote, weak to follow on the term kellyanne used when she described hope as strong. Its not just that. We all, unfortunately know of people who in their public lives, personas are feminists, strong independent women. Meanwhile behind closed doors they have been in abusive relationships. It happens unfortunately, tragically way too much. In kellyannes defense, what she said publicly about hope is what privately white house officials have been saying to me when i have said, isnt there any motivation here among the white house staff, those who really love and know hope. The president is certainly counted among those and has been for a long time, concerned about hopes wellbeing. In private they say shes strong, to which the conversation quickly turns to what i just said. So theres a defense. At the end of the day, its not about that, its about broader misunderstanding frankly headinthesand point of view that is starting with the president of the United States and the people who speak for him are forced to dance around that kind of figure out a way to explain it which is generally not easy, but with this particular issue, really difficult. Its too big a deal, david. Were not going to stop talking about it. In part because they keep screwing up their cover story. The old expression of the tangled web you weave when you practice to deceive, they are trying to deceive. Theyre misstating when they knew and when they had a chance to act on it and didnt. Its not a couple hesaid, shesaid or how someone acted from one persons perspective. The exwife who wrote this op ed is the one with the black eye. The other one had an order of protection. I think hes going to have to clean it up whether he likes it or not. Does he care . He has to care. It will haunt him. If we dont stop talking about it here is the pernicious part. His followers, trump folk, especially the men are starting with the why are you still on this, it doesnt matter, youre overblowing it, its not that big of deal, what about due process. He is fomenting exactly the wrong instincts. I dont think hes going to be able to keep doing it. It wouldnt be the first time. Clearly theyve moved in stages of what can they get away with, the latest being well have our press secretary go out and say in the hollowest language that its got to be him. Chris, im not disagreeing with you. This is about howe he thinks. Its about what moves him. The right thing is not what moves him. The reality is the white house shouldnt be engaging in this talk of talk with the flippant see. Talking about we know hope, shell be fine. She doesnt know what this guys m. O. Both of these wives say when they were dating, he was fine. One dated him for three years. We got this documentary coming out maybe well ask the boss about having it come out sooner on cnn instead of hln because its so topical. Thats the pattern. Strong women are fundamental to the sur slooifl of the dynamic. If they werent strong, they would be crushed early on. So many endure for years. Theres one other point on this, from the cover story part of this, what we know politicos reporting about the initial instincts, gets get reporters in the room with porter and see what he has to say. They wanted to stand beside this guy. Why . A lot of people liked him. Youre working in the white house President Trump who has been accused of Sexual Misconduct and worse and simply is not sympathetic to victims who bring these sort of accusations. Can i just add one other thing on the question of whether or not the president is going to find a way to end it or not . David, i completely agree, past this prologue he will not. Having said that, we are in 2018. This is a Midterm Election year. Every House Republican is on the ballot, and there is concern, as we have been talking about, that democrats could take control. It is the suburbs, suburban swing districts that could be determinative of whether democrats can take back the house. I was talking to a republican strategist involved in those races this morning who is getting more and more concerned because it is the female vote that really, really matters in those districts, and the concern is, a, the subject matter and, b, thats is going on so long that it is a weeklong news story that doesnt have an end in sight. The question is who congressional candidates, congressional leadership is making a point of saying, hey, if the president is not saying, let us be very clear how awful this is, and how horribly this was handled, as a kind of a way to separate from the president. The president can certainly come out and say, by the way, i think Domestic Violence is wrong, of course. But we know that wasnt his instinct. You know hes sitting there saying, look, i showed we could do the right thing. We got rid of the guy. Then he went out and said what he really thinks. Thats the game they play. Come on, he got rid of the guy. Thats why it was so interesting to hear anita dunn, former Communications Director in the Obama Administration say, if he used this opportunity at the sheriffs meeting that hes having to talk, just even broadly about Domestic Violence you know its bad when democrats are offering the president free advice, really good advice. That might just solve it. Its a nonpartisan issue. One in four women, one in seven men. Its not really a male issue. One in four women are affected by this, its not a hesaid, shesaid. The president s tweet was designed youve covered it so brilliantly. He was dealing with himself and the allegations about him. Some of them are fake, they all have to be vetted. There needs to be due process. Thats totally true in workplace misconduct. Not sexual assault, not Domestic Abuse. He was thinking of himself but missed big here. Here is what i agree with, which is eventually they may see the light to try to get this right because you really cant move past it if you dont. Youve got to take your lumps, that this has been the initial response, questions about, did they tell the truth, were they deceiving each other internally. It was a mess. It still is a mess. But the president is the only one who can kind of get to the place to try to put this together in a way thats solid, even if hell be criticized for how he handled it overall. Moving on quickly to the president s budget, it blows up the deficit. Is it now, dana are we seeing a realignment in terms of identity. Are the republicans no longer claiming the moniker of the fiscally conservative or responsible party . Well, they can try, but its just not believable. It really isnt. It just goes to show, it is so much easier to claim that mantle of cut, cut, cut when you are not in control and you dont have a fellow republican in the white house who doesnt necessarily agree with you on that. To see the twisting and turning of so many republicans who spent years telling us that they would not do anything, would not vote for anything that made the Republican Leadership in congress, made their lives very difficult because they wouldnt vote for anything that exploded the deficit or even made it a little bit worse. Now you see, never mind, the spending bill that they passed which a lot of people said were going to do this because it includes money for the military which is very important, and money for the victims of hurricanes which was very important. This is different. So its that, but the other thing i just want to mention is the fact that the president in this budget proposes cuts to entitlements which he promised up and down during the campaign he would never do, and put him at odds with a lot of his fellow republicans. So that is another kind of eyebrow razor in this budget. The question is, is this the president s party or a party led by hill republicans, grassroots conservatives. When paul ryan tried to reshape medicare during the Obama Administration, i remember being with David Plouffe when i was about to interview him on meet the press because he thought this was an effort to run against republican efforts to hurt medicare and they did so successfully. Republicans were not for reshaping medicare at the time as well. The question is does he have real allies who got tax reform through but wont be on board for a big infrastructure spend or anything else that makes the deficit worse . Strong point. If the information serves right, the president is scanning around. If he is, take the opportunity to do the right thing, President Trump. You dont want to own this issue and be on the wrong side of Domestic Violence. Republican senator david purdue introducing an immigration view reflecting the president s visions and goals. Can congress get an agreement to pass this legislation . The president says the clock is ticking. We have senator purdue on live next. This is the story of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup. First, we head to vermont. And go to our coffee shop. And meet dave. Hey. Why is dark magic so spellbindingly good, he asks . Let me show you. Lets go. So we climb. Hike. See a bear. Woah. Reach the top. Dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. Like these mountains, each amazing on their own. But together . Magical. 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A pathway to citizenship for 1. 8 Million Immigrants on daca, the daca recipients. That comports with the president s vision, 25 billion for Border Security including the wall, the president s vision, make it easier to detain and deport certain immigrants. I assume that means the criminals, but you can clarify. Cuts familybased migration, what the white house refers to as chien migration, ends diversity visa lottery. Is this going to be make it through with 60 votes . Alisyn, this is a historic opportunity to finally, as you say, fix this broken immigration system on the Legal Immigration side. Thats what were focusing on. What the president has laid out is a framework that both parties have supported, all these tenets at various times in the last 30 years. As a matter of fact, in 1994 Barbara Jordan presented a Bipartisan Commission report to president clinton that actually called for some of these very things we included in this bill. What i hope we can do is put aside partisan politics and get to the real issues that twothirds of americans want us to solve in the manner the president has laid out today. Polls can be used however youd like to use them. Here is the latest quinnipiac poll on funding for the border ball. 65 oppose it, americans that dont think thats a good use of money. Theres a har vord poll out that say over 70 want more Border Security. The most important number ive seen is that twothirds of americans at different points in time over the last year weve been working on this particular idea for over a year. Many people here have been working for 30 years trying to fix this. What im saying is over twothirds of americans want to see Border Security, want daca fixed and want to end this linkage chain migration system and the diversity lottery. Both sides want to end that pernicious problem. So then whats the problem . Why isnt this going to go sailing through congress . Well see. Im not sure its not going to get bipartisan support. Both sides positioning here. Serl possibilities this week. We hope to get a vote on the president s bill today. Im hopeful well see people on both sides of the party come and see the common sense in this approach that most americans want us to achieve. Youve heard what democrats say, which is the issue of the dreamers the president says this is vitally important to him. Many republicans say that. So why not just make this about the dreamers, how to handle that, what to do for these folks, whether you want to say 1. 8, 800,000, settle on a number and just deal with that and dont confuse it with visa lottery and the wall. Thats a great question and here is the answer. First of all, lets give the president credit. We were First Talking a year ago about 690,000 with temporary work permits. The president stepped in and said lets solve the daca problem once and for all, but also eliminate the causes of what brought the children here illegally in the first place. Thats chain migration, unsecure border and the other facets of the from hes laid out. Thats what most people in america want. They want to end the things that cause it in the first place. When the president says theres a hard deadline of march 5th in the tweet that i read, thats not accurate. Well, there are legal issues involved that would cause it to carry past that, of course. Nobody wants to create a problem with heez chooithese children o young people. I dont think hes been given enough credit. This is one that both sides on the extremes will look at and say they went too far in the other direction. That tells me were pretty close to having a structure that should be done. Its a good compromise and should be done. I want to talk to you about the budget. Youre on the budget committee. Is it time for republicans to lose the identity of being the fiscally responsible belttightening party . Alisyn, this is why i ran for the United States senate. There are no innocent parties now to our debt. We have 20 trillion, going to 21 trillion. Over the last nine years, we borrowed 35 of what we spend as a federal government. The great thing about the funding bill we did last week has a clause in there that creates a select committee to fix this broken budget process. There are no innocent parties up here. Let me put it up for people so they understand the staggering numbers, 984 billion added to the deficit just next year, close to a trillion, if this budget is what ends up happening. Thats an 89 increase. Thats higher than what the president projected meaning its over what he ever projected would be happening. How can you agree to this . First of all, weve had eight years under the Prior Administration where we added over 10 trillion. You didnt like that im interrupting because republicans rung their hands, and i interviewed so many of them during that time where you said you cant run up the credit card, you wouldnt do it in your own house and we cant do it in washington. Alisyn, youre exactly right. Those are my words, and i stick by them. First of all, there are things you can do to get at this debt crisis over the next 20 years. Youre not going to solve this in ten years. We have to first grow the economy. The president moved on that. You have to cut out redundant agencies and wasteful spending. Third, fix the budget process. Four, i dont view to save Social Security and medicare whose trust funds go to zero in 14 years. We have to stop the increasing costs of our health care, the fundamental costs causing Health Care Costs to skyrocket. Those are the things were trying to begin focusing on. How about not spending so much on the military and defense . You tell me whats more important, protecting this country right now i think after disinvesting our military, were at a point of crisis. We have a Global Security crisis and we have a debt crisis. Weve gotten to the point now, alisyn, both sides, weve gotten this country in a position where were losing the right to do the right things, not only with military spending but domestic spending. In other words, putting things on the credit card is fine as long as you believe in that cause . Thats not exactly true. What i do believe, though, is there is investment spending that has to be done. Ive been in big turnarounds in my life in the business community. You have to invest in the things that will provide an economic return. Thats whats being done right now. We have got to secure our borders, secure or military and rebuild it. Theres also going to be a 20 or 30year plan to solve this debt crisis. Were not going to be able to print money and borrow money at the rate weve been doing in the last 30 years. Senator david perdue, thank you for your perspective. The white house is blaming the fbi for dozens of Trump Officials still lacking full security clearance. Is that fair . Is it close to true . We have the perfect guest. A former fbi supervisory special agency who dealt with exactly this issue, next. Whoooo. Going somewhere . Heres some advice. Tripadvisor now searches more. Than 200 booking sites to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30 . Trust this birds words. Tripadvisor. So we know how to cover almost weve anything. St everything even a redhot mascot. [mascot] heyoooo whoop, whoop [crowd 1] hey, youre on fire [mascot] you bet i am [crowd 2] dude, youre on fire [mascot] oh, yeah [crowd 3] no, youre on fire look behind you. [mascot] im cool. Im cool. [burke] thats one way to fire up the crowd. But we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum why are highlevel aides allowed to work with classified information without permanent security clearance . Once again, thats a question that the fbi and other intelligence communities, they make that determination. Thats not something thats decided by the white house. Its the same way that it has been its not on us. Its on the white house by the way, with a nudge and wink, you know what . We have problems there, too. Thats Sarah Sanders saying exactly that explicitly and implicitly. What is the truth of how security clearances work, what the process is and whose call it is ultimately . The reality is youve got between 30 and 40 white house officials and political appointees still operating without full security clearance. Weve got somebody who knows the answers. Cnn Law Enforcement analyst and former fbi supervisory special agent josh campbell. Good to see you, sir. Hey, chris. Good to be with you. Lets do this a little sew kraticily. Its not the white houses problem, its on you guys. Youre slow and inefficient. Thats why theres a backlog with people like Jared Kushner and rob porter. Its your process. Youre not getting it done. Thats why they dont have full security clearance . Lets break it down. First the slow and then well get to the inefficient. In the runup to the administration, its not like theyre sitting around waiting for to finish one until they get to the next. The slow i dont buy. The inefficient is the same way. They pour resources into this process. Remember, at the end of the day, its not up to the fbi to grant a security clearance. I want to say for the good of the viewers, they understand the fbi is the investigative arm, conduct the Background Investigation, hand it over to the white house or wherever the Client Agency might happen to be. That agency makes a final determination on whether someone is suitable for access to classified information. So, at the end of the day, its up to the executive, that means the white house, to decide if any of their employees or appointees get security clearance, and they do it with the guidance of the fbi, but its not on the fbi. Its on them. True . Correct. The president can hire whomever he wants and grant access to classified information to whomever he wants. The fbi looks into provides the information to say this is what we found. Its up to you to decide whether or not to grant the access. One, thats a convenient end law where you cant give people classified information if they dont have the proper clearance. The executive gets around that because they can say who gets clearance. They do. Thats the power of the president. I dont think anyone begrudges that. The attack n o the fbi, to say the ball is in their court and they messed ups, i think thats unfair. Called political convenience. If i can add, also, i left the fbi, a career i love, so i could speak out on these unfair attacks on the bureau. This is another example of that. Whats more troubling than the accusation that the fbi is at fault is the deafening silence from those who know the fbi. Where is the department of justice . Where is the attorney general . For that matter, where are some of our former employees who kind of like to stew and write opinion end and trash fbi leadership. When the bureau is being attacked, the silence is deafening. A tough environment right now. Youre saying your piece, other people will as well. Well go on the facts as we get them. What is your take on how this works with Jared Kushner not having final clearance from the fbi in terms of their investigation, someone like rob porter not having it. Why would it be taking so long . My suspicion is they could prioritize the white house if theyre in control and say, josh, do Jared Kushner, i dont want some random assessment process, do him now. I want him done. I want porter done. Theyre very important to me. Couldnt they have said that . They could have said that. As i said before, its either one or two things. Its not unusual for an fbi Background Investigation to take up to a year. Were basically at that year point. The longer you get past the year, it becomes more troubling. It could be one or two things. Its either the fbi has found something that theyre concerned about, or you have someone whose history is so complex, financial dealings, travel, that they simply have to pour through that. Its not unusual that it would take a long time. The longer we get away from inauguration day, the more potentially troubling it is. We let facts and the absence thereof fuel fairness. Lets put kushner to the side. He has to qualify as somebody who has a sophisticated background, something would be unusual even at the white house lfl in terms of all the transactions and dealings. Until we know more, put him to the side. Porter we know from the New York Times and other sourcing that the fbi said this guy is not likely to get permanent clearance from us, and that it was communicated to mcgahn and maybe others that there were issues involving Domestic Violence with this man. If that got there, isnt that enough for them to have acted on rob porter . I think it would be. Again, its not the bureau that would grant the security clearance. I dont imagine that the fbi wouldnt say were not going to grant the clearance. Thats not their duty. Thats the first part. The second part is, theres an interim security clearance process which allows people to start working on day one and has been reported through various networks that information was provided by the fbi to the white house indicating, hey, we found these issues, but, again, its not a legal issue. Its more of an administrative issue. This is someone who we want to be working around. This is someone who is suitable for access to the nations most classified information. One more quick thing because ive got to go. Is this all done at once or peace meal. They learn something, they pass it over. They learn something, they pass it over. Or is there a special paper where it all comes at once . Thats a good question. When i watched the briefing with the word extent. We didnt learn the extent of this information which again is a very interesting way of saying we didnt have the full picture. As has been reported, the fbi, whenever they find something that may be troubling, they pass that information over. It is a back and forth. Again, at the end of the day, the fbi wants people who are trustworthy, suitable in those positions. Theyre not going to sit on Something Like this and wait to have a piece of paper to send over. There is no final paper. It can be done piecemeal. Important facts. Thank you very much josh campbell. You got it. A scary moment involving an american athlete at the olympics. Well give you an update on what went wrong on the luge course. Thats next. Almost 800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. With liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. Hey oh, thats my robe. Is it . When you switch to liberty mutual, you could save 782 on auto and home insurance. And still get great coverage for you and your family. Call for a free quote today. You could save 782 when liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. 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The crowd favorite crushing her competition with backtoback 1080s in her final run garnering a nearly perfect score. Kim the third u. S. Olympian to win gold in freestyle snowboarding events at these games. Im so hyped to be here and to land the runs i did today. Such an amazing honor. Reporter 31yearold shaun white making his debut in pyeongchang taking his first. The twotime olympic Gold Medalist hoping to secure his third goal after a disappointing fourth place finish in sochi. Austrian skier marcel her cher finally winning in the alpine event after a thrilling slol lom show catapulted him to the top of the leaderboard. After winning bronze in the Team Figure Skating event, adam rip. Refusing to meet with Vice President pence because of his views on i dont want my olympics to be about mike pence. I want it to be about my amazing skating and being americas sweetheart. Japanese skater the first to be suspended for failing doping. Insisting the violation was unintentional. 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I dont know. First of all, i would add one more piece of advice. He should only do that if he actually believes that. Why . If he did it, dont you think it would silence some of the talk around why hes not speaking out against Domestic Violence . I think president s most successful communication strategy when theyre speaking their true feelings about something. Yes, i do think speaking out against this is the right thing to do, and this criticism that has been hounding the white house now for days that we are to believe the spin coming out about the president being upset, it just doesnt square with everything we know about this president. When hes upset about something, he makes it known himself in his own voice on his twitter feed. That hasnt happened here. Also, its not going to go away. Domestic violence matters too much in this country criminally. It is a cultural scourge. As long as the media stays on its game and doesnt get distracted, eventually hes going to have to clear this up. Theres plenty to distract. You have the immigration debate going on. You have this beguiling Budget Proposal that they just came up with which basically says, yes, were republicans, but were going to explode the deficit and we dont think it will matter to our voters. Are they right . They are somewhat. I think voters care a lot more about their personal finances at the Kitchen Table than they care about the countrys finances at large. I think its hard sometimes for voters to connect the two. Obviously there are fiscal conservatives out there where budgetary matters are primary, but theyre very few and far between. Its just not a primary voting issue for most voters heading to the polls. There is you are right to note, chris, this has been a sort of republican rallying cry for quite some time. So there is some danger in sort of depressing your base. But again, this does not rank in fact, it ranks near the bottom, not the top of voters priorities. It is interesting though. No price to be paid politically you think for deficit exploding and for hypocrisy . The hypocrisy piece, i think a little more of a potential price. I dont think the core of advertising coming from democrats in the fall is going to be calling out members of congress on the republican side for being hypocrites. Hypocrisy doesnt wear well. Its not a feature you want to be campaigning on or be tagged with. I think that we are likely to see the midterms turn on issues more about health care, overall tax reform than on the budgetary issues. Of course, one party has not corn erd the market on hypocrisy. Sometimes when its so naked, its just amazing to watch it play out. Maybe so. Its got to be something that resonates with people. People think pocketbook and wallet first, thats true. The deficit, you dont pay for it directly, so i get that. I get why it ranks low. People tend to think short term not long term. I get it. It makes sense. Their exigencies are about themselves and their kids. I get it. Immigration, do you think theyll get a deal done before march 5, and do you think march 5 is a real deadline . Well, the president seems to suggest, at least the chief of staff does, that march 5 is a real deadline. A couple weeks ago the president was floating the possibility of extending it. All sides keep saying they want a deal here, chris. That leads me to think there are people from everywhere trying to work out a deal here. But this process does not seem one to invite a real deal because with this open amendment process that Mitch Mcconnell has promised, everything that can get added could be one persons poison pill, might be one persons great amendment. It gets hard to get legislation to get through both chambers. He controls what amendments make it onto the bill. Proposing and it being added are two very different things. 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