this is a president that will try something different. You may say it's irrational. You may say it hurts our country, all those things may be true, but it's something different that may end up with a different result than we've been…

the long-term goal of dealing with China and they are undermining our economy is more important than 3 percent, I mean 2 percent versus 3 percent growth.

I think it's really interesting that she said we'll work in a bipartisan way to do what we want, which is to pass our agenda.

I have in principle no problem at all with red flags laws as long as there is due process that people can't arbitrarily get denied the opportunity to purchase a gun.

Look, we're willing to have a process by which we make sure that more people who are potentially dangerous are deprived the right to have a gun, but we want to make sure it's a fair process.

He probably should -- he could have waited but I would make the argument that the people who are there, like even the mayor, lobbying for something that she well knows the president is never going to support was also as inappropriate as…

They believe they have a great message and one of their messages is the people who are representing you now are not doing -- doing a bad job.

I agree with Van that the president is crude and rude and combative with anybody who attacks him.

Yes, you know, it's -- I don't think we've lost our capacity for outrage, but I think we have lost some of the energy behind the outrage because it is a constant drum beat.

They want him to go up there and prance around and -- in making, you know, making accusations and saying things that are in the report. But the reality is, the public knows what's in the report.

Well, if the whole country benefited, then that would mean that those blacks who didn't live in the south benefited, too. So, should they be paying reparations to other blacks who happen to be descendants from families from those areas?

I just think that that in itself seems to be, you know, a bridge too far for most Americans, looking forward instead of looking back.