52 republicans in the senate. i hope we can. i have a great deal of respect. he s been working on this very, very brightly. one thing we should remember, president trump isn t the one that said, let s do health care first. he would have rather gone to infrastructure and tax reform but he was trying to be a good teammate. is that the ultimate error? i look at this 70 days in. do you think we re in a different place if he starts with infrastructure and tax reform and says, reneed a task force on health care. get some folks in a room and work on it the next six to nine months while we focus on jobs. well, the main thing is, trump would have gone to infrastructure and tax reform first, to be a good team player, did he what the house wanted to do. one thing that i think we need to all remember, you can repeal
the klondike gold rush, lots of oil, sarah palin, and northern exposure. and a lot of other stuff. plus, back to donald back to p point, alaska was a very big deal. 663,000 square miles worth of big deal. that s even a bigger deal than we made when we grabbed 520,000 square miles from mexico after the mexican-american war. another big dealmaker on that one president jas polk. alaska is bigger than any other deal other than the louisiana purchase. that 828,000 square mile deal by thomas jferson who won so much he got tired of winning, pretty much doubled the size of the united states. so today let s acknowledge that we don t make big deals like that anymore. and let s celebrate one of the biggest dls in american history. remember, u can see russia from alaska. enjoy.
it is constructive in fifth grade. i don t work for the president. i don t work for the leadership. i work for the people who sent me. i don t know who is giving him that counsel but if it is the same counsel that said let s put a bill polling at 17% on the house floor, when the american people are 17% prove, that s not a winner. you have to look at the legislation and it doesn t do what they said would it do. that s why only 17% of the population supports this legislation. this place is a swamp. not a hot tub. people sent us here. conservatives, republicans that believe in what they campaigned on and donald trump. they sent us here to drain the swamp. and that s just the beginning. house speaker paul ryan had a warning for some of those freedom caucus conservatives. the president told you he might strike a deal with democrats. don t let him. they re not going to help us repeal obamacare. that s my point. if we re going to do what we said we on do, which is repeal
in which this influence campaign by russia is being directed. and it is very serious. and i think that the powers that be, i think the nato nations as well as ourselves and the united kingdom have to be able to sit down with russia and put this to an end. because it is going to no good place. do you think it s possible to simultaneously secure our defenses on cyber and deal with this in one way and at the same time investigate russia? or do you think there will be a feeling that you have to get through investigation before we start trying figure out how to prevent this happening in the future? i ve been on the intelligence committee for 16 years now. it is very rare that all the agencies come together with an intelligence assessment that is united. and in this case, they did. and that assessment is made with high confidence.