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Where is the money really going? we cant use the credit card to be in denial and kick the can down the road and deal with it later. you will create problems instead of cutting budgets, these are problems you will live with for five or ten years, dont do that. if you lean in and make hard choices and cut up subscripti subscriptions, things we all have. brian: have a conversation with your family. just say its been a tough year, weve had to change holidays for two years, heres the difference this ...

Done? cutting budgets, thats not a good thing. that doesnt help. >> its a proposal. its a trump administration proposal. >> i think now with this particular point in time, maybe theyll relook at that and possibly put more assets out there and do more around the country like new york city has been doing. >> he sounds like the candidate who ran for president of the united states. come back, he was trying to explain -- i dont think he did it quite the way it works. diversity visa program which he s...

Who are making these things happen. when you look to the federal, you know, relief that comes, thats day three, day four. thats when the feds come in. thats when you start looking for support. those things, those emergency things, always pop up in the budget. we had a surplus last year. we didnt use it. we havent had a really serious hurricane since katrina so maybe we dont need this anymore. those things are oftentimes ripe for being slashed when you want to cut costs or save the budget but tho...

The august monmouth poll, and carson has risen nine. in the meantime, jeb bush is fighting just to stay in the fight. hes cutting staff, hes cutting budgets, at the same time, hes trying to reassure donors with some help from big names, like bush 41 and bush 43. we have it all covered with our team of correspondents and analysts. joe johns is live in new hampshire with donald trump. mark preston can covering ben carson, live in washington, d.c. political commentator van jones is live in l.a., an...

Its deadline day for tax filers across the country. just like for the irs theres a bipartisan feeling for many people, hatred for the irs fueled the tea party movie. remember the tea stands for taxed enough already. >> we havent talked about fundamental tax reform, and ill tell you the most important tax reform, we should abolish the irs. >> the conservative who has walked the walk, cutting budgets, not raising taxes. how often do you see that in government? >> the irony is the rise of the tea p...

Youre not as hawkish and maybe when it comes to cutting budgets, youre reckless. you dont -- you have a plan for five years. republicans should be a little bit cautious about you. what do you say? >> its hard for me to be anything except for who i am. im a forthright guy and ill keep putting forward solutions. i had a good job before i came here. im a physician, i like doing surgery and im happy to go back at any time but the country is not looking for your traditional cookie cutter conservative...

Pressure, on republicans to come back to the table. were not seeing that happen. in terms of what it was supposed to do for political pressure, is the sequester a bust? >> it is. in that respect. the calculation that the defense cuts would be so severe for the republicans, that they agree to alternative, turn out not to be true. and it is a very interesting situation because it shows how really -- really extreme the republican tea party style commitment is to cutting budgets. two reasons. number...

The question of identity is what we are really talking about today. identity of the gop as they start this convention. what is the identity and 2012? when you see these governors as key to that identity? >> hello, jenna. conventions are about the party telling the story. they are saying who we are is this and this is what we want to do. you have an extraordinary opportunity to do a lot of things on a state level that governor romney and paul ryan have been talking about doing on the national fed...

>> reporter: the ballet of blame. waltzing towards the precipice and back again. >> get it passed and avert a shutdown. >> reporter: a dance till midnight. >> until senate democrats get serious. >> reporter: where the music finally stopped just in time. >> we didnt do it at this late hour for drama. >> reporter: oh, but it was a drama that only proved how difficult cutting budgets can really be. consider this, while the republicans can now take credit for forcing the largest budget cut in histor...

Understanding and not fighting with them, we have not taken sides and we do not have a war and we get an idea how much this is costing us now, right, money-wise. >>reporter: in fact, we have done a tally and officials say it cost the first 11 days, $550 million and if you break that down it includes the missiles that are $1.5 million each and they expect they will spend $40 million a month from here on out but, again, they are saying the white house does not plan to go to capitol hill for a supp...