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Rallying against it. he has that deficit hog that will be still hammering away. he had some deficit hawks there but with the president trump in office, things like tax cuts immigration infrastructure, this plank of the republican party has been withdrawn to the back burner. people like rand paul, while they can make a great point about it, is not going to be something -- >> is all about politics? to be able to give the president his victory so therefore they get to take that into the republican ...

The last seven, eight years, 4%. it is currently less than 2%, as you know. >> right. >> the possibility of interest rates staying as low as they are now is highly unlikely, and that as interest rates rise, yes, the economy will recover but the interest payments on the much larger debt become crushing. >> a couple of things there. first of all, as long as the economy remains weak interest rates will remain low. if the economy gets stronger interest rates will go up but also if the economy gets s...

Obama wants to put it into obama care and a new entitlement for health care. whereas ryan wants to put us on a more sustainable fiscal path. thats a big difference. >> he wants to put us on a sustainable fiscal path, why wont he raise revenues? why doesnt his plan reduce the deficit? it doesnt deal with the debt that the republican plans have actually added on? paul ryan is the guy who voted for the tax cut that added trillions of of dollars to the debt. he voted for tarp. he voted for the autom...

Intellectual honesty in the room and recognizing what the political realities are. i think a large number of people are economied to do it. it has to be everything. everything has to be on the table from social security to the defense department. im convinced there is $50 billion a year in waste in the defense department and we can get it and im convinced there is hundreds of billions of dollars of waste across government programs and we can go get it. i think there is a commitment to try and ge...

Intellectual honesty in the room and recognizing what the political realities are. i think a large number of people are economied to do it. it has to be everything. everything has to be on the table from social security to the defense department. im convinced there is $50 billion a year in waste in the defense department and we can get it and im convinced there is hundreds of billions of dollars of waste across government programs and we can go get it. i think there is a commitment to try and ge...

Pieces of legislation, the ones hes been kofrting and losing are have been john mccain, susan collins, lisa murkowski. now add bob corker to the list of people he no longer can count on. bob corker as chairman of the foreign relations committee has a lot to do with obviously the appointment power, if there is a new secretary of state, if rex tillerson is put out. with the iran nuclear deal if the president later this week dessert fiez it as were told hes going to do. ands a deficit hog going way...