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And i dont have any cookies either. Thanks, dana. Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. A rematch of the 2020 election between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, seems inevitable on this wednesday after the Super Tuesday primaries. The current president was essentially unopposed and the former president has vanquished his lone remaining serious challenger. Former South Carolina governor, former Ambassador Nikki Haley suspended her Campaign Today after winning j...

Possible demographic pushed sales of alcoholic beverages to a staggering $222 billion. its no wonder most places like denver kept the taps open during the pandemic. >> i knew that i had consumed more during the pandemic, and i wanted to know where do i fit in. >> but all this heavy drinking is taking a major toll and testing the limits of those whose job it is to protect its citizens. how serious are problem are duis around here? >> recently it seems like theres dui crash after dui crash. >> thi...

Possible demographic pushed sales of alcoholic beverages to a staggering $222 billion. its no wonder most places like denver kept the taps open during the pandemic. >> i knew that i had consumed during the pandemic, and i wanted to know, where do i fit in? >> but all this heavy drinking is taking a major toll and testing the limits of those whose job it is to protect its sids. >> how serious a problem are duis around here? >> recently it seems like theres dui crash after dui crash. >> this is ju...

Shopping. elon musk is still the richest man on the planet. tesla c.e.o. widening that gap as the worlds richest person. his net worth $222 billion. amazon founder jeff bezos sits at $196 billion. this is a bloomberg index. musk bragged about the news like this. a second place medal to bezos. its not the first time musk has trolled bezos. the two have been in a space race for years. musk often teasing bezos, also about the shape of the blue o ore -- origin rocket. locker room humor. the missio...

Fighting for, i hope the president is able to do something. i think ha will bring those approval ratings at least to the mid-west, i they will help him, if he can do the trade deals with mexico and canada and get to work on the deal with china. coin will be a little more difficult challenge to work on. >> as you know, house republicans, your in the senate, but house republicans are looking to push through another round of permanent tax cuts. look at this, right now, the first round of cuts. we s...

Same time period last year. that brings the total figure to $895 billion. the cbo says the surge is due to the new republican tax law and an increase in government spending. officials say the figures were somewhat inflated due to a timing shift for some payments by the government. earlier analysis from the cbo said deficits wouldnt near the $1 trillion mark until 2019 and surpass it the following year. so conservative principals, of course, winning out again, joe, sarcastically. >> here we are a...

Here are the numbers on the deficit. okay. so theres no flree lunch. $895 billion for the first 11 months of fiscal year -- of this fiscal year 2018, its $222 billion more than the shortfall recorded just last year. so, steve, youre cool with racking up big deficits now? >> i always believed and i think donald trump believes this, too, that the single most important thing for donald trump to do when he was president is get the economy moving again and get people back into jobs and higher paying ...

Better today than it was in 2009, so -- >> i want to put dollars and cents to this. this is the difference in the cbo projected savings. theyre projects $222 billion in a year from medicare and medicaid from this slowing of health care costs. the sequester is $87.9, and the cuts to food stamps is $23.8 billion. i have been on twitter all day about this, they cant find a single positive thing to say about the law. literally it could bring peoples health care costs down to zero, they could cure ...

Projected. what do you think they would be saying? >> would they be on the hook for it, absolutely. no one would say we dont know if this is obama care or not. >> clearly i think obama care is part of the story, the downturn is part of the story. the downturn cant be all. i heard people saying people are out of work. thats true but they have been out of work, the downturn was 2009. lets imagine ten million people lose their jobs, we expect to fall off in spending. but the economy is certainly be...

Theyre projects $222 billion in a year from medicare and medicaid from this slowing of health care costs. the sequester is $87.9, and the cuts to food stamps is $23.8 billion. i have been on twitter all day about this, they cant find a single positive thing to say about the law. literally it could bring peoples health care costs down to zero, they could cure cancer, and conservatives would be shouting from the rooftops that its a disaster. i think this california thing is hysterical. in part b...