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Place but its been like christmas gifts for them on a day-to-day basis in terms of whether its a national sales tax proposal or whether some republicans want to go after entitlement programs. every single day they feel like they have something to talk about, elevate and polls poorly for republicans and well for them and the president will highlight that as well but underscores why white house officials before all of the classified documents information came out and became a huge part of that eve...

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Cutting entitlement programs. but theyre talking about social security, medicare. whats the plan for the white house? >> the president has made economic -- certainly,, he has a plan thats going to help grow the economy, grow americas middle class. weve seen the effects over the past two years. theres enormous accomplishments. millions of jobs created. inflation coming back down. were seeing manufacturing plans increase all across the country. a small business start-ups in the last two years, rec...

Know, exactly, what that means. what that means is, either, cutting the military budget, which republicans do not want to do, and most in this caucus will not want to carve out, or, it means cutting domestic programs. do they want to cut veterans benefits? do they want to cut housing? what about health care? or, the big east, and this is the only way to do the cuts that they want to cut, is social security, medicare, or medicaid. those are entitlement programs. what they are going to do is put p...

And so, if you dont have a framework, work with congress to do it. that is an appropriate request by congress, and lets get that done, and obviously, you want to do what is necessary to pay the bills of the united states. >> last one on the debt ceiling here. former president trump posted on social media, quote, under no circumstances should the republicans vote to cut a single penny from social security and medicare, and some say that entitlement programs and everything should be on the table, ...

Dollar in benefits just in the hospital trust fund. so why dont they do something to fix that? this is social security, this is medicare, this is in the piece that you were quoting in the "wall street journal" that almost 2/3 of our spending is on entitlement programs. during covid weve added another entitlement that wont go away, the expanded enhanced subsidies for obamacare. before i get all on my high horse and ride out of the studio one thing i want to point out. we were playing the sperling...

Discretionary spending, which basically means they will want to carve out as many of them have said, defense spending. it means cutting other programs that are non-defense. and what that means, in english, not washington speak, is, social security, medicare, medicaid, smaller percentages for housing, veterans programs, for health care. so, what is it exactly that you want to cut? and none of them seem to be able to answer that question. because its a hard question. a handful of them may say, ent...

So anybody who tells you they know whats going to happen is just lying to you to sound like they need to look like they sound smart. >> well ask about that with the white house and ask if any there is any room for a cut or negotiate on it. and i wonder, given that you have laid this out and youre telling of a hostage they cant shoot, and is feckless, for them to do this, doesnt it make them look feckless if they are trying to have a fight that they cannot win? >> sure. of course. and their argum...

Talking about the agenda of the republican party. and this is what the chairs of the committees are saying theyre going to do. representative mike rogers of alabama says theyre going to investigate woke social advocacy at the department of defense. you have got jody arrington of texas saying theyre going to restructure entitlement programs, that means they would like to in some cases cut, slash social programs, social security, things that a lot of americans depend on and paid into. michael mcca...

Played a big role in negotiating a deal with kevin mccarthy. he was on cnn this morning. he basically suggested he wouldnt allow default on the debt to get big spending cuts. you know these people. you knew sat with many of them in the house. are they going to do it? are they going to take the u.s. economy over a cliff later this year? so far, they have proved to be pretty adept hostage takers. >> possibly, many. possibly. look, you know that as tea party members flirted with this idea, shutting...