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The national debt. this spending bill is going to add a lot of money to the national debt. it seems like republicans should be in a better position today to control spending than ever. >> but we know the reality. 60 votes in the senate and even our own folks in the senate if we talk about we want to do the long-term things to fix the debt problem, it wont get through the senate. its a reality so what happens is we say we want to fix the military, the democrats say they have priorities on the dom...

We could use some of that to address the debt problem. so both sides really. we have to grow the economy more. once we have the resources we have to think about how well address these longer run problems. >> i appreciate your time chairman hassett. look forward to having you on again. thank you. >> thank you. >> outfront next the white house doubling down on trumps treason claims about democrats using insults in new campaign ad as they try to say on the other side of their mouth that it was all ...

Clinton made the competence argument. she and all her great surrogates, president obama, they made the case donald trump was not fit for office and he succeeded in achieving an electoral victory. i wonder how you break through, though. if that is the constant din in this media environment, how do you break through as a party with a message about other topics? >> well, again, its local. if you are going to look at a specific district that has about 600,000 people in it and i can tell you weve got...

Sanctions have complicated matters but theyre actually very narrowly targeted venezuela could appoint other negotiators who are not under sanctions and that would ease some of the immediate difficulties of the negotiations but the root of this problem is in venezuela and mismanagement of the economy and particularly in mismanagement the national oil company had a recession this is a country with massive oil reserves but its well production has been falling even as its debt problem ounce because ...

Mother and say, hey, here is the plan that im making to move out. give me a little bit of time. do you approve? do you like this? if he says yes, hey, you are still in the house. if he says no. i want you to relax, go find a room roommate. keep your expenses low. i want you to graduate college debt-free because you are already ahead of the game. ainsley: should we do 52 for our kids. >> absolutely. ainsley: go ahead and put that money away tax-free. whats the question you get from most people? >...

20 trillion. even if you took every pen any of the rich folks, money, it would barely put a dent in our debt. >> absolutely, rand paul is absolutely right. 10 cents of the dollar if you confiscated the wealth, if you confiscated the wealth you would trash the economy because there would be no investment. the only way to get washington fiscal under order is growing economy. the only way you get growing economy with big massive tax cuts across the board, john kennedy did it, ronald reagan did it, ...

Beginning of the tax process. so pass the budget in the next couple weeks, move to tax reform because of the budget and other topics will continue at the same time separately. maria: so what is your feeling terms of deficit neutral, revenue neutral when you look at tax reform for the overall budget. when does the deficit and debt of $20 trillion become sort of a near-term crisis situation. >> the deficit is driving why we are doing what we are doing right now. a lot of us, myself included have c...

Than later. >> what has changed between congressman mulvaney on the debt and budget director mulvaney when you said earlier this week, we need new deficits to increase economic growth? >> this is whats changed, is that ive come to the realization that washington is not going to solve the debt problem, the deficit problem, through spending. i had come to washington in 2011 and had hoped that would be the case, that we had a spending problem and not a revenue problem. >> youve come to that because...

On debt and deficit. take a look. >> how can we possibly have a credible discussion about the debt and deficit and not include defense? >> more and more people are recognizing the threat to the overall economy the debt presents. >> we ran up this debt. what are we going to do to make sure it doesnt happen again? >> the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. >> what has changed between congressman mulvaney on the debt and budget director mulvaney when you said earlier ...

Heres congressman mick mulvaney on debt and deficit. take a look. >> how can we possibly have a credible discussion about the debt and deficit and not include defense? >> more and more people are recognizing the threat to the overall economy the debt presents. >> we ran up this debt. what are we going to do to make sure it doesnt happen again? >> the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. >> what has changed between congressman mulvaney on the debt and budget director...