language version of our broadcast, that basically means a tentative deal on jobs and bridges. and mike, as you know, this cuts across party lines because this is stuff for folks who have to drive their kids to school across a bridge they have worried about for 50 years. did you always think the republicans would come to the table meaningfully, and have they in slow motion realized this stuff matters back home? yes, i ve always thought so. in hacks on tap we made predictions about this a week ago. i think it will boil down to a pretty good bipartisan bill with $1 trillion plus. a record number of dollars spent on this, and it will be on hard infrastructure. water, bridges, roads the stuff you re talking about, which is a good thing. i think for viewers who like to watch political theater, the question now will be, would some of the progressives, who would like the see social welfare
you can t do that. well, he did. our economy is the envy of the world. their economies, in many cases faltering after decades of social welfare spending and high taxes. so of course, the old euro elites, they want to turn to the status quo when they had all of the power, and let s face it nothing says status quo more than amtrak joe. he is the foreign policy establishment. and even members of that club they say biden was a disaster like former obama defense secretary bob gates. who wrote in his memoir bidenwr has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. ouch.ou oh, but none of that matters. council on foreign relations here, or progressive european officials abroad. spain s former foreign minister gave it all the way in an
just bristled. you can t do that. well, he did. our economy is the envy of the world. their economies, in many cases faltering after decades of social welfare spending and high taxes. so of course, the old euro elites, they want to turn to the status quo when they had all of the power, and let s face it, nothing says status quo more than amtrak joe. he is the foreign policy establishment. and even members of that club, they say biden was a disaster, like former obama defense secretary bob gates. who wrote in his memoir biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign foreign policy ad national security issue over the past four decades. ouch. oh, but none of that matters. council on foreign relations here, or progressive european officials abroad.
and government reform committee, republican congressman jim jordan of ohio, he s a founding member of the house freedom caucus and served as its first chairman. congressman, good to see you as always. you bet. we spoke about this time 24 hours ago to the chairman of the freedom caucus and he said he couldn t get there to vote yes on the continuing resolution because he doesn t like the process, this game of a new krr every few weeks or months and four of them since october. what changed for you and mark meadows since we spoke last. the democrats always say if you want to do what s right for the military, we demand a dollar-for-dollar increase in social welfare spending and the rest of government and we think that is not what we were elected to do and that s been the problem. we agree to go along with this short term one-month deal in hopes we can at some point fund our military at the level the
even many republicans on capitol hill are starting to recognize the urgency of moving forward. it s time for their leaders to either get onboard or get out of the way. the cuba embargo needs to go once and for all. there we have hillary clinton just a short time ago in miami. lending her support for the end of the u.s. trade embargo against cuba. . embassies have reopened. the travel restrictions they ve been loosened. ending the embargo will need congressional approval. prior to that speech clinton was in ft. lauderdale where she, jeb bush, and several other candidates spoke before a civil rights group, the national urban league. bush, he stuck to his talking points and didn t mention clinton. clinton, however, did take aim at jeb bush. at one point clinton repeatedly invoked bush and republican positions on social welfare