forget about it today. i ve been talking to these animal spirits, two more signs of it today, one from manufacturing, one from housing. national association of home builders, their sentiment, their reading soared, it s the highest level it s been since january of 2005. bill: whoa. in fact, this is the biggest one-month jump in 20 years. all over anticipation that donald trump will get through his policies, slice these regulations. you ve got to realize for the home builders regulations have gone up almost 30% in the last five years alone. so, you know, you start to get that out of the way, helps the home builders ors first-time home buyers and everyone in this economy. bill: manufacturing numbers up too? significantly. the best number since january 2015. expectations for the next since months have gone through the roof, doubling bill: okay, so, charles, are those facts, or is that a feeling? what is it? well, it s a kind of feeling that gets the ball moving. in other words, i
the republican members of the house made him speaker. the pope talking today, boehner is more catholic than any catholic i think i have met in washington. he s devout in he way i have ever seen. for boehner i don t think he would mess around with the leader of his church. he had to tell his members before the story leaked out because he has to get the ball moving. martha: chris, thank you very much. let s go back to bill outside the united nations. bill: we are watching a split screen. you are wondering whether the speaker wait for the pontiff to deliver his remarks or whether he goes first. mueller high school in cincinnati, xavier university. he s a jesuit to the core.
and particularly house republicans. here you have legislation that was passed in the senate a year ago but the house has not acted on this. we re talking about border security and the billions of dollars needed to enforce border security. there s no comprise in sight. it seems dead on arrival. how do you get the ball moving, do you believe that this is stagnant washington as usual business where this has been politicized to the point we re at the crisis? well, sadly it s republican do nothingism as usual. it s not only the bipartisan senate bill but that same house homeland security committee that governor perry relative waste of taxpayer money to speak last week. that committee last may approvaled a security bill which the chairman, mr. mccall proved unanimously and on a bipartisan basis would meet the needs of the american people to fix the
chenaworth. i just told her she looks beautiful in this gold. thank you, i m trying. you re winning. what did you think of the show? i was rooting for captain phillips but i thought it was a good show. your movie was great. you were nominated, a great film, but i think el len was a great host, she kept the ball moving, she did some unconventional things. i was trying to push her out to go get me a slice. and i said if i m going to get a slice it s for me. you would share. no. i said will some get the pregnant woman kerri washington a piece. we were talking about standout things, what did it for you guys? i think it was a lot of things that ellen did in
leaning one way or the other to you and the 79 others? guest: no, what simpson-bowles taught us this can be bipartisanship. you have to able to get people on both sides of the aisle to do things that they haven t done before. the other thing that simpson-bowles teaches us, the number of changes necessary in both the tax code and in terms of entitlements if you do them now are not overly substantial. they are not painful. the effect of those somewhat painless changes over a ten, 15, or 20 year time period, they do dramatic and positive results to the whole fiscal solvency of the system, the bending of the curve. you need to have everyone in the same room today. these are folks that do not like being in the same room with each other. neil: you are right. we have to get the ball moving. duck, thank you very much. very good to have you. in the meantime, coming up .