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His travel habits. even they the man who spent years in congress railing against wasteful spending by the democrats and private jet travel by nancy pelosi knew he had a problem. >> how is this any different? im wondering if you were thinking you would making the charter flights thought to yourself, gee, the optics wouldnt be great especially as hhs a cutting your budget,cutting programs, cutting staff. >> and i appreciate that. and the optics in some of this dont look good and thats why we, agai...

Number of members of the house took speaker nancy pelosi to task for using 757 to fly around the country and using private jets. how is this different? i am wondering if youre thinking, taking these charter flights, the optics of this wouldnt be great especially if hhs is cutting the budget, cutting programs, cutting staff. >> i appreciate that. the optics in some of this dont look good. that is why we have taken this criticism to heart. the whole process we undertook, each of these trips were r...

And financial bs. if a private company used that, they would be out of business within two or three years. and some did use some version that of in the private sector and they are out of business as a result of what happened in 2008. so what we have to do is explain to people that running up more and more money on the deficit is not a way of helping america become great again. we have to become the deficit hawks, ironically, because the one thing reagan and the two bushes had in common is they c...

Need to be going after the republicans for chicanery. if they use dynamic scoring, thats just lying and chicanery and financial bs. if a private company used that, they would be out of business within two or three years. and some did use some version that of in the private sector and they are out of business as a result of what happened in 2008. so what we have to do is explain to people that running up more and more money on the deficit is not a way of helping america become great again. we hav...

That he really seemed to disdain politics in a lot of ways. he didnt like traveling a lot. he didnt like being in the middle of the crowds. he wasnt an attention seeker. he was just an attention getter. the idea of living in a bubble like a president and not being able to go home and stay with his wife matilda, every night probably didnt appeal to him. nobody knows why he didnt run for president. >> a lot of people say his heart just wasnt in it. its a terrible job in many ways. youve experience...

When i was city budget director in the early 90s, i used to find 4 rand 5% savings every year. so the mayor and the speaker at the time were able to fund new programs. i will do that again. i will hire a budget director that will do what i did and my successors did and find better ways to do it without cutting programs, were making the government more efficient. >> mimal block berg said he is not intending to endorse anybody in the general election. you said, you are fine with that. i wonder, wo...

Then invest in making communities more resilient. to hopefully minimize or reduce the impact of these kinds of horrible natural disasters. >> i want to open this up to our folks here in new york, daniel. bob, coburns office was asked about whether he would still call for offsets in increased disaster assistance and he said theres a legitimate role for fema. we ought to live within our budget. the oklahoma city bombing, we offset that. we offset that by using funds that werent being used. we didn...

Spend money and what is worth it and what isnt. >> we have here jared bernstein, budget celebrant emeritus. jared, lets talk about this. before this show started, we started a discussion about its actually good i think for the country to get involved in a discussion about budget, not just because you have an affinity for numb bersz, but as ezra says, budgets are moral documents in a way. they show or priorities as a country. what have you gleaned? >> well, paul ryans budget has described as robi...

Find child care for their kids. and vaccinations and cancer screenings, bad idea, a bad idea. >> sequester was the administrations idea. >> they were president obamas idea. >> so-called sequester was obamas idea in the first place and signed it into law. >> and you get -- you get the general picture there, with the zombies and the cars going off the cliff. too late for that? a little late. have they lost that war or could they win the pr battle here? >> theyre not going to win pr battles. not on...

Have gotten through college without student loans. there are not many republicans that can talk about that. at the same time, he is in the party that would cut student loans. >> he has a great bio and great story. nobody ever said that medicare doesnt go to republicans and student loans dont go to republicans. he has all of these facts that have no point. and so if your argument to the public is we just ran on gutting medicare, and everything im saying tonight when you look at the details in the...