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Of the clinton administration were rocky and chaotic. >> and history was not on their side. in every midterm election since world war ii, the incumbent presidents party had lost seats in the house of representatives. so the long, hot summer in washington left many asking, "was the comeback kid out of comebacks?" >> we believe in this contract and these reforms so deeply. >> republicans, led by minority whip newt gingrich of georgia, unveiled their blueprint to take back congress called the contr...

Defense increase. and of course as saean mentione the enforcement of immigration laws. the illegal crossings have been reduced by 40%. the stock market is up. on the other hand, let me just say this -- >> to be fair, a lot of the those things -- >> we need to focus on some of the negative things that have happened to presidents. president kennedy had the bay of pigs. president lincoln had states withdraw from the union. there have been pretty good presidents who had some really bad things happen...

Lot of things in the presidents budget that caught people off guard, meaning theres a lot of things that he wants to get accomplished. how does he do that? were talking infrastructure, building the wall, pumping up the military, thats a lot and we still have obamacare on the books. >> yes, and i think the warning is this, hes asked for money for the wall, for this years budget, not going to happen. the defense increase, it may be much smaller than anyone anticipates. so, i think we have to scale...

Impacted by the cuts in the president new budget proposa. it eliminates funding for arts sciences and programs that help the poor to member pay for a $54 billion defense increase and over $1 billion for the border wall next year. top republicans say its dead on arrival but mick mulvaney defended the proposal on morning joe. >> can you talk about where you are concerned that perhaps some of these cuts may hurt americans lives, if anywhere? >> no. i think that were actually doing exactly what we s...

Republican party like paul ryan and the people around him who will say, well, what about entitlements, medicare and social security? maya will say something about that, too. this doesnt touch that. and thats an absolute promise trump made during the campaign hed not touch entitlements. puts him at odds with the more libertarian leaning republicans in congress. then on the other side you have big cuts at the state department and for international diplomacy and you have a lot of foreign policy haw...

Limits? home mortgage deductions -- home mortgage detouks ductions. >> for higher-income people. >> you can guarantee no one making less than $150,000 will have a mortgage deduction? >> he keeps making you think its a movie star, or hedge fund guy. >> 97% of the small businesses make less than $250,000 a year, would not be affected -- >> this tax is a million people. 1 million small businesses. >> does it tax 97% of the american people. >> maul businesses with the greatest job creators-- you a...

Limits? home mortgage deductions -- home mortgage detouks ductions. >> for higher-income people. >> you can guarantee no one making less than $150,000 will have a mortgage deduction? >> he keeps making you think its a movie star, or hedge fund guy. >> 97% of the small businesses make less than $250,000 a year, would not be affected -- >> this tax is a million people. 1 million small businesses. >> does it tax 97% of the american people. >> maul businesses with the greatest job creators-- you a...

>> they do what theyve been doing for more than 30 years. theyre going to cut the taxes, way more than they cut spending, especially with that big defense increase, and theyll just explode the debt and weaken the economy. its arithmetic. we simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double down on trickle down. >> brian: you cant have it both ways. the day before senator harry reid saying tea party will take down the country because they cut too much. and its fine, ...

In the last deal. >> he would not guarantee that this would pass with republican support. >> the epa getting cut by 1.6 billion, high speed rail, aids prevention, defense increase though. that was the plus side. >> people from the left saying the president gave away way too much, 504 million cuts to women, infants and childrens nutritional fund. >> its unbalanced, and in that sense the democrats gave up too much. >> the president is also being asked to take on gun controls. >> the man who killed...

A lot of balls in the air there. nbcs chuck todd watching all those. thank you, sir. >> you got it. president obama managed to strike a deal with house speaker john boehner on the budget, but believe it or not, the votes still have to be counted in congress. were talking about chapter one. nbcs luke russert joins mee live from capitol hill. and, luke, i guess we might think its all over but theres some details, maybe the devil is in the details here, and some cuts that we were looking at p.m. ...