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Out is, outside of the tariffs for the most part, if he wants to try and suggest hes only talking about economic nationalism, his policy is fairly fallen under republican orthodoxy. he didnt just tear up nafta. he renegotiated it. he has -- hes suggesting that hes going to go after certain popular government programs, entitlement programs in particular. so he hasnt exactly pursued a sense of economic nationalism if he wants to try and reframe this as about populism and not about race. >> we keep...

Home, do you want a congress like mitch mcconnell wants, we cut entitlement programs? >> how do you get them to not look at the front page of the newspaper that has a caravan on it every day now? "new york times" is not a right wing newspaper and they do it every day now. its a hard one. >> two things. one, the question of his -- >> i was going to call you jose. >> you can call me jose, chris. you can call me whatever you want. >> jonathan. >> one is the larger question. at some point in trumps ...

Millennials? >> i hope so. i love campaigning for millennials. they are the future. it is my generation. im at the upper echelon of the millennial generation. elder millennial, you would say. they have different question, we have different concerns. theres one thing we all agree on is the debt. we need to reform our entitlement programs. >> dana: is that something you will decide to push president trump to do? >> yes. it is something weve lost sight of in the republican party. we need to get bac...

Giving america the greatest economy. it would mean single payor system for healthcare and would mean 13 million people become legal citizens. we have trouble paying our bills today and we would have trouble paying social security, medicade, if all these people become citizens. >> dana: let me ask you this last question. dan crenshaw from houston district. >> he used to work for me. >> dana: hes running for congress. he said the number one issue here is the debt. republicans have failed to take t...

Thinks the biggest thing affecting our deficits is the entitlement program, social security, medicare, medicaid. i think everybody ought to be focusing on the fact that the republicans want to repeal the protections for preexisting conditions, and want to find a way to cut entitlement programs and are focusing us on this "middle middle eastern caravan of folks that include allegedly gangsters and middle easterners rather than focusing on our our core values and protecting human rights around the...

Him, if necessary, when hes wrong. im working with the administration to disclose the cost of prescription drugs on the ads they put on television. secretary azar of the trump administration, whom i did not vote for in the cabinet, is working with me. id be glad to tell the people of illinois and anywhere that thats an important issue that we can work on together. but there are many differences, and they get down to pre-existing conditions, these basic entitlement programs, and making sure that ...

Mcconnell bring things up like entitlement reform, medicare, social security. is this how this things going to play out? >> well, republicans would like to go after entitlement programs. they talked about it forever. they will not going into the 2020 election. president trump, he ran on protects social security, medicaid. theyre not going to actually touch any of those things. the long-term conservative project has involved reducing taxes. at least in theory. hasnt actually played out that way. ...

Medicare is about $300 billion. everything else is everything else. when you say entitlements and mitch mcconnell, social security and medicare are a challenge to the deficit several years out. right now, theyre not what is driving the defense i sit this year. hurricane -- deficit this year. we had hurricane spending, bunch of different things, a caps deal that increased spending. its the discretionary spending that has a big impact. keep in mind the presidents budget that we introduced last yea...

Family, theyre nuts. >> president trump realized that. when he was asked by the ap about mitch mcconnell saying this, he said, what? i hadnt heard that. i dont know anything about entitlement reform. >> i watched the senate debate and tideological turf. none of it was deficit talk. but mitch mcconnell spoke the truth. the republicans do want to reform these entitlement programs, but from a political standpoint it couldnt have come at a worse time. every republican running for congress right now ...

>> why, why is that? why would i republican want the deficit to rise? >> because what they really want to do is cut entitlement programs. they want to cut those programs that mitch mcconnell talked about. social security, medicare, medicaid. and they understand they are very politically popular. they can only be cut when there is a deficit so large that people are frightened, and they feel, we have no choice. and that has been their goal for 40 years. >> austin goolsbee, research poll has a 12-p...