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>> sandra: the house approving the usmca with wide bipartisan support yesterday. speaker pelosi and president trump clashing over who gets credit for the deal. lets bring in peter navarro, good morning to you. he is the white house trade advisor. who should get the credit? >> a comic irony to nancy pelosi claiming it. if you go back to 1993, she had a choice between the big corporations giving her money wanting to offshore the jobs to mexico and working men and women and lane or organizations in...

Total health spending grew at the lowest annual pace in the last five decades. the argument in passing obama care was to bring down health care costs. health care costs are coming down. so why does no one care? no one cares that health care costs are going down? the reason is because the cardinal rule of washington politics -- and this is really important. it makes everything make sense. when people talk about deficits, they are actually talking about something else. no one actually cares about ...

Credit for much of the remarkable deficit reduction projected this week by the cbo. the deficit reduction republicans used to hold up as their entire reason for being. because the biggest driver of our long-term deficits is rising health care costs and -- get this -- between 2009 and 2011, total health spending grew at the lowest annual pace in the last five decades. the argument in passing obama care was to bring down health care costs. health care costs are coming down. so why does no one care...

To do when people come in and dont have jobs and cant buy your stuff over time? and thats where we are at now you can the gentleman you had from minnesota, what a -- what a comic irony that we need a fiscal stimulus to hire a guy to guide people to find jobs then he gets laid off and theres no jobs anyway? come on. >> alan, he is still with us. do you feel that way when you look at this whole narrative of your own recent career, alan? >> well, obviously, life is irony, but the truth of the matte...

Tragic comic irony the same way you expect the cubs to lose you expect your local politicians to be corrupt. they have seen governors go to jail. i wonder if you think this trial is going to change that. i mean, do you see this as an impetus for some kind of actual substantive reform to get at the underlying structural factors that led to this? >> you know, the wink and the grin that used to accompany these misdeeds is long gone, chris. the economic meltdown has created so much hardship for so m...

Obama administration? one of the things we heard obviously when this was made public, there was a lot of sort of braying on the right about how this was chicago style politics. this was going to ensnare the white house. i wonder if that dog ever barked in the trial. >> you know, as it played out in the trial the obama administration looks pretty good. rahm emanuel didnt bite at some alleged extortion and shakedown efforts. valerie jarrett never got mixed in. obama, himself, in one phone call tha...