We need to make progress on it. We don't have to solve either one of them overnight. Although you could solve the border overnight. The president has the authority to do that. The debt's a little trickier because of the entitlements. But I think if we develop some bipartisan effort to say, and the problem with the bipartisan effort is so many of the Democrats are co opted by the progressives … (17:28–17:32)
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