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Fairness, market openings, better labor values, intellectual property -- >> laura: wait a second, david stockman, reagans budget guy, reagans guy -- >> my former boss. >> laura: your former boss. said this today. lunch. >> i think its a great big p.r. stunt. this is not maga, this will do t for the american workers. nafta was never a problem. the whole thing is, like, a phony issue. >> well, dave is an old friend of mine. he and i disagree in a whole bunch of things the last 30 or so years. by t...

Trump administration. this was wage growth in the obama administration. it has slowed significantly under president trumps administration. the whole thing is a little bit of a puzzlement. >> and when people talk about wages in some instances being higher, those are were high skilled jobs. the low wage jobs which, remember, thats where -- >> thats where the problem is. >> its where it was during the obama administration. its where it remains. joining us sam collme lander. >> hes the budget guy. >...

Good for him for coming to that conclusion. brian: when john mccain went thumbs down, that killed his ideal which would have been entitlement reform. he wanted to start there. your thoughts? >> well, paul ryan is a budget guy and he is a tax guy so ultimately agree with matt that the victory of his career even more so than entitlement reform has always been reforming our tax code for the first time since 1986. i dont agree with everything that happened in the tax bill but it is amajor accomplish...

Here. the journey joins me now. last night when i was talking to you, i was in new york and you were on satellite. i played something that a guy from i think was from department of homeland security and adviser to the president saying it was a text book operation, this is how its done. you said thats just bunk, that this is not a text book operation. >> i think we got to adapt and overcome. the plan didnt survive contact with the storm. people was leading ahead of time, we had you have a governm...

Figure out how to i guess, interim rhett budget speak. and i recommend everybody be sure to find you. at the budget guy. follow this guy on twitter. it will make you smarter. and speaking of rosy scenarios, mark sanford, a member of the house budget committee and he inspired me on that last question. let me start with what you heard from the congressional budget office on health care. the remarked up bill by cbo says, for $31 billion more, you covered 1 million more people. the uncovered estim...

Remain on the same page, especially when it comes to financing. >> so what is the position in syria right now? you know as of a week ago, haley saying one thing, tillerson another, nothing from trump. then you send in 59 tomahawk missiles, now we seem to be trying to find a middle. so whats the policy? >> you realize you ask the budget guy that question. >> you said it, theyre all on the same page. so i figure you know what that page is, though. >> my guess is that you are much better off talkin...

Coming online in europe, you know, this year. and so, the russians clearly are trying to meddle in other countries elections. we have to help our allies prevent that from happening and uncover it. we have to find out what they tried to do here. weve got to make sure we get to the bottom of that, and wherever the facts go. but then we also, in my opinion, need to do more to help our allies guard against this invasion into their democracy from russia. >> a number of republicans i spoke to this wee...

The russians clearly are trying to meddle in other countries elections. we have to help our allies prevent that from happening and uncover it. we have to find out what they try to do here, we have to make sure to get to the bottom of that and wherever the facts go. then we also in my opinion need to do more to help our allies guard against this invasion from russia. >> reporter: a number of her popping as i spoke to this week say that you need the $880 billion from medicaid savings to the health...

You know, this year. so the russians clearly are trying to meddle in other countries elections. we have to help our allies prevent that from happening and uncover it. we have to find out what they tried to do here. weve got to make sure we got to the bottom of that, wherever the facts go. we need to do more to help our allies guard against this invasion into their democracy from russia. >> thank you, mr. speaker. a number of republicans i spoke to this week said you need the $880 billion from me...

Russians, there is smoke but there is no fire at all. there is no little campfire, no candle, no spark. there is a lot of people looking for it. >> bret: because we are dealing with all of this, that sometimes gets overlooked when people say back. doug, im running out of time. i didnt exclude you because you are the budget guy. i promise. thats it for the panel. up next, a major newspaper gets