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Also adds considerably to the deficit over ten years. so when you look at all of that spending, and when it comes to the infrastructure bill, it seems really unclear, though were hoping to get more details soon about what is to pay for it, thats a lot of money. do you worry your party is giving up on being the party of fiscal responsibility? >> yeah, of course it is a worry. and, look, jim jordan never misses an opportunity to slam somebody in his own party. in fact, i see him do that more often...

Position because of something called the budget control act. instead of having the courage to cut $2.1 trillion to the national debt and deficit by going into areas that -- called entitlement spending that people are like, oy, man thats always tough to deal with, this thing called sequester which was a blunt hammer never intended to happen, happened and thats where we went across-the-board cuts to domestic spending and across the board cuts to the military. we had 80 military training deaths las...

Nothing is going to happen with the sequester. were not going to have armageddon or apocalypse. what the president is doing, i need a p.r. stunt. i need a battle. im going to cult the white house tours, which actually, eric, they cost $74,000 a week. you know this because you eaverred to subsidize it, but for the president to jump on air force one and play golf with tiger woods, it costs $180,000 an hour, and when mrs. bush accepted -- gave out the oscar for best puck tour, how much do you think...

Wow. everything you can blame on the sequester. by the way, everything bad going forward, too? >> i know arne duncan, play basketball with him at the local y, a great athlete, a good guy, have a lot of respect for him in this case i have to respectfully disagree. the scare tactics need to stop, and if he is so concerned he needs to call up the president and say give me the transfer authority and allow me to make the cuts in the department of education shy can do my job. the president said he wan...

Ill take this one. this guy ills not going to prevail. >> how much dot this cost. he uses a public defend center. >> he cooperate find a lawyer. the public defender is only for criminal cases. he is doing this pro se. just how low this is. he hand to hand write this. >> i cant imagine a lawyer filing this type of lawsuit. >> but we should point out. there are laws, the dramshop laws, that would appropriate people from serving someone who is ininebriated. >> and this laws for a good reason becaus...

$100,000 a year, and theyre, like, special adviser to the president. does the president need all those advisers? >> no, he doesnt. but what this really makes the president look like is he looks petty and small, he does not look like a leader willing to tackle the tough problems facing this country, which is our enormous debt. he refuses to cut spending, and then wants to manufacture a crisis which the sequester is not causing, and as you point out, theres a lot of waste in the white house. reall...

>> if you talk to governor christie, the governor said, why dont you get the abilities to make the change, be the leader we need you to be? he said no, at it on you. i want this to be on you, the run s, so the american public blame this republicans. were americans first and we have to figure this out. theres plenty of money. of you cant cut $85 billion from the budget -- we did this for a reason. we were going into default. the credit raiding industries were going to downgrade it so we said were...

>> as you might have heard, im offering to pick up the tab to keep the white house tours going next week. i tweeted jay carney asking if theyre going to take me up on my offer with the hash tag, open our wh. at one point it was the second highest twitter trend. jay, were still waiting. i called you this afternoon. i swear, if you call me,ll pick the phone up during this show. to crystal wright who says the white house is only doing this to keep the fear going. the white house, this is -- not onl...

Very end were kind of syrupy and filmed through gauzy light. i thought that performance and the script by tony kushner, the ability to tell the story and focus on the battle of the 13th amendment, legislative battle. can you imagine the sequel called sequester. >> do you have some of these chapters in your legislative life? you could do a whole hour and a half movie? i agree with you guys. to find that kernel of story. >> i also liked the debate about the necessity or lack of necessity for vorac...

Republicans argue it will hut the military. crystal say its time to embrace the cuts because at least theyre cuts. excellent point. >> better than no cuts, right? >> i think all this slaps you were running reminded me of the sequester. the problem with the sequester, $85 billion is not a big enough slap in the face for the american people and members of congress. however, i think it is a wakeup call and what it will do, and i hope republicans have the fort attitude to let it take place. it was p...