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This election marks the Largest Senate games for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate sea seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three. It could be four. Perhaps it could be two. But we picked up a lot. And most likely the number will be three. You people probably know that better than i do at this point. Because you have l...

Education, you borrow money. found $556 billion of the deficit, 58% of it can be traced to recent bills including the 2015 tax extenders. the doc fix. the 2017 tax law. thats the part in blue there. and the bipartisan budget act of 2018. so this is an incidental. this isnt the president saying, hey, we had some kind of weird economic downturn. this is deliberate. >> this is self-imposed. this is really fiscal self-sabotage. thats whats happening and on both sides of the budget. so we have a -- h...

Will you please sit down? excuse me. would you please sit down. please go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. now that the house of -- >> president trump: it is such a hostile meeting. it is so sad. you asked me -- no, you really untouched -- interrupted him. he rudely interrupted him. >> thank you, mr. president. dear men dont make demands for his mean the same to the u.s. congress on immigration and exchange for a doc fix, and amnesty approval of 1.7 millionu willing to change the demands that...

Its due. he was helping in this process. lets talk about the deficit trigger. this is something that is getting a lot of attention as well. this idea that you would automatically raise taxes if these really optimistic growth targets arent met and the deficit balloons. that sounds really hard to do. >> yeah, and it makes me think of things theyve done in the past that have sort of taken on lives of their own. things like the doc fix without getting into the details of that and the amt patch, they...

Insurance, essentially? >> i think the fire rages in the insurance markets for months to come in that there will be disasters, real human disasters, if they do not get to 50. thats why i think they have to get to 50 because they will not be able to connect. >> and if you repeal and not replace, the more confusion youll get in the insurance markets. >> i kind of disagree, i think there will be more disasters in the insurance market. the republican party has had its hands around the throat of the ...

The republican party has had its hands around the throat of the affordable care act for seven years, it hasnt died, but its not doing too well now. i think theyll have to do something. >> i smell a new version of the doc fix. >> something like that, chuck. theres been so much uncertainty, basically the only supporters outside this bill have been a handful of health insurers who say, look, this bill will at least stabilize our individual market. i do think were at the point where the uncertainty ...

Leadership role. but its not clear to me that he understands this bill, that he knows whats in this bill. and so im not -- >> you know whats frustrating to me? he could have tweeted this morning and said, i promise you neil gorsuch is the most conservative member of the court, he is scalia times two, and do a victory week. he won this week. but he didnt do it. its very frustrating. >> quickly, though, how many democrats will help? lets say this all falls apart and mcconnell gives the permission ...

Going to keep it. one thing to keep in mind for social security during your lifetime. lets say they take out $3,000 a year to pay for your social security account. that 3000 is taxed by the federal government and state governments so you dont get the money, but pay tax on and when you retire they gratuitously cut the benefit? you go to jail in the private sector, by the way. david: we should mention president obama signed it, but it was bipartisan and republicans, too. >> people pay close attent...

>> you hear it all the time in d.c., scare tactics over potential cuts in social security berths, but did you know that cuts in social security checks are already happening? its a part of a bipartisan plan to fix medicare payments to doctors during the obama administration. well, my family just found this out the hard way, steve, this just got personal. my folks called me up, theyre my lovely folks, and said, look, weve got $500 a month less in our social security checks. and thats not supposed ...

When you retire, it doesnt say you may lose some of that because the doc fix. >> i have to check the fine print. this is a truth in advertising fraud, sorry to be heavyhanded with that word, but the government goes after companies on these issues and looks like you got rooked there. >> 6 of 1 is million people get social security checks, so its a small fraction of that number, but, still, its a promise, its a promise made by the government. this is your money, you get it back when you retire. >>...