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Of the deal with iran. he probably thinks the most like donald trump. national security adviser is a key job. two sets of relationships you have to manage. first you have to manage relationships inside the cabinet. thats something that l. mcmaster has been criticized for. you have to get along with secretary of state, secretary of defense. youre the integrator and facilitator. secondly have you to get along with the president. obviously there are tensions between h.r. mcmaster and donald trump. ...

And this should be all about solutions. now, im not saying this plan is flawless. nothing is ever going to stop 100% of these things from happening. theres t evil in the hearts of other people, unfortunately, in this world, but why would we try to do every single thing we can do in this case to prevent these tragedies from occurring and make them less deadly if, in fact, they to happen? heres a simple test and a question for you. everybody tonight,, i think they can ask themselves. if god forbid...

Result of this c.r. was agreed to. it just seemed to me that that was the perfect vehicle to try to get something through. obviously, its been -- its gotten increasingly controversial. the president has continued to highlight that issue on immigration, and as a result of that, i think weve got a lot of opposing sides on this issue having developed, so i -- i understand that ultimately they had to have a deal to try to get past another shutdown of the federal government, but theres no question no...

Taken up the budget we sent over to them in september. good grief. the reason that the crs are so bad is that they have given us -- we do on average five a year for the last 20 years. we have quadrupled our national debt and n. that same period because we wont simply do an annual budget. >> martha: do you think this hurts republicans in the midterm. >> i think it really can hurt as people see it. its going -- it offsets what we did and had so much success with the tax cut deal where people are f...

If it comes back to us i hope we vote it down and send back to them the bill we sent. takes care of our military but doesnt grow government. >> martha: did nancy pelosi put new a bit of a box yesterday speaking so long about daca and perhaps pulling some other democrats along with her. she is making your numbers a little difficult if the house freedom caucus is not on board with this deal? >> well, we will see. i actually hope the democrats vote no. if the democrats all vote no, we have enough v...

Full control of the house and the senate and the white house and the fact that republicans have continuously passed these short-term spending resolutions. it is -- ive never seen anything like this before. i want to go back to something that chris was saying earlier. what is the republican party standing for and fighting for? i was a house staffer back in the day and worked with blue dog members of congress fiscal conservatives and wanted to find ways to reduce the deficit and pass spending bill...

You know. this is where it really gets tough. admiral mullens said this years back. we can do the short-term fixes on this now, but the long-term bill will be there on the back of the american taxpayers. you see the rise of the interest rates. you know what the interest on our debt is, and so its a juggling act. do we serve the immediate now or do we look long-term? the mere fact were just funding until march 24th, this is the fifth cr since the end of the fiscal year. you remember the days we h...

It is hurricane relief. were not going to rebuild houston, not going to rebuild florida, not going to help puerto rico or the fires in california? those are things that we have to do because our fellow citizens in these disaster ravaged areas need assistance and that say proper role for the federal government. so a lot of that spending is one time spending. the other domestic spending is something we all agree on. we have an opioid crisis in america. lets get on with fixing it. we think we can g...

Lurching from c.r. to c.r. is just not helping the economy, not helping government as well. i share every republican is concerned about the debt and the deficit. but bringing this down closing the government wont solve that. what we think will are savings in mandatory programs. we know from the house weve got $800 billion of medicaid savings just sitting in the senate that would not only wipe out these extra spending but double that. its ready to go over there. we would love to see some senate a...

The house passed a more discipline plan back in september and weve been in cr after cr. we did increase spending for the military in part because of just the real readiness issues we faced over the past year. unfortunately, weve had more training fatalities than combat fatalities in a year where we had a fair bit of compat. i think its, you know, readily apparent to the american public that we got readiness issues and weve got ships crashing into one another out in the ocean. that goes to unders...