guy, but i tell you i did like the infrastructure stuff. i like that other part. there s a couple of things about trump that i liked in the beginning. this is big part. thank you both. more about cell phone from national security adviser tells msnbc thus nothing improve happened. [vo] quickbooks introduces rodney.
it s definitely of the moment. if you look at some of the things that elevated donald trump to the presidency to begin with, i think there is some sort of post-partisan cry that a lot of the country is been sounding for the last several months because look again, donald trump is not your conventional republican. he is not in the paul ryan mould, wasn t even in the mitt romney mold. some of his priorities run askew of the republican orthodoxy. if you look at some of the infrastructure stuff like you are talking about with reaching out to a broader coalition of americans, democrats certainly have an opportunity to do that kind of stuff because look, the political interest of them is there and the policy interest of them is there. if they can t get behind the potential $1 trillion infrastructure project, like chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate has artie said he d be willing to do, then i m not sure what they are going to get together with him on at some point. so the oppor
give individuals the right to write off payment for health care. people leaving obamacare, it s already crushing itself under its own weight as people jump because of high premiums, soaring costs, the doctor pool shortage. people leave the program and you leave about 3 million people who have some really serious, catastrophic problems and you can shift them to medicare and call it a day and you haven t had to kick anybody off anything or dismantle obamacare. it will fumble it will crumble under its own weight because it s a horrible bill. jimmy, go ahead. here s the problem, how do you pay for that? if you don t pay for it, you add to the deficit. i m totally okay with that. that s fine with me. hogan, let me ask you this and i ll put it a different way. there are a whole lot of people in congress who don t want an increase in the deficit. everybody s math, including mine, when studying donald trump s all sorts of thins donald trump wants to do, means a bigger deficit. his in
their candidate is named bush? you re going to have guys out there twisting themselves into pretzels trying to make it seem like republicans care about people and jobs. they ve refused to put money into public sector things like building roads and building bridges and water systems, and that kind of infrastructure stuff they simply have been unwilling to do anything to help people get jobs. somehow they think magically it s all going to happen without them doing anything. and that s not going to work. and the people are not going to buy it in 2016. now, i don t care what jeb bush says about his brother and his father. he is not going to be able to convince people that republicans are going to provide jobs. they don t. reverend think about it austan go ahead. the last two democratic presidents have come in to clean
statements, they both at least say they want infrastructure investment. president obama is proposing it. mitt romney is saying he likes it in theory, in practice he has been deriding it as wasteful stimulus that does not work. but congress did pass this bill that has good infrastructure investment in this transportation thing today. if you turn the frown upside down and look at the possibility of doing something here, look at the country s needs in terms of keeping the lights on and in terms of the economy and putting people to work, don t we have a way forward on this one issue? couldn t more infrastructure stuff get done, even now, even this year, even with this congress, even with this election. i feel hopeful about this. christina romer is the former chair of president obama s counsel of economic advisers. christina, thank you so much for your time. it s nice to have you here. it s great to be with you. you are an expert on the