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The political wherewithal to cut spending, which is what they really care about. and only spending that helps people. they want to increase spending for the military and so the truth is they love deficits. >> austin, what happens next? because bruce is right. were getting to a point where conservative orthodox i says if youre running up deficits, youre going to have to cut. we know that there are great difficulties in cutting what we call entitlement spending, social security, medicaid, medicare...

>> austin, what happens next? because bruce is right. were getting to a point where conservative orthodox i says if youre running up deficits, youre going to have to cut. we know that there are great difficulties in cutting what we call entitlement spending, social security, medicaid, medicare. we know were not seeing any cuts to the military, so well start to see programs cut that are easy to cut first. but mitch mcconnell has already sounded the drums about cutting into entitlement programs. i...

In the growth that the president kept claiming they would to make up for this deficit. any thinking person with some economics background could have looked at these tax cuts and said, youre going to get yourself into a bigger deficit. we are where we expected to be. it shouldnt come as a surprise to anybody. >> well, thats exactly right. i think it is important to understand that every single republican who commented on this issue a year ago and said revenues would rise, or that they would not f...

Aftermath, which is ballooning deficits. and it was -- but it was kind of interesting to hear senator mcconnell say this is about entitlement programs and we will have to cut those. there are issues with those programs. there is no doubt that the ballooning deficit is related to the fact that tax revenues have dropped up exponentially because of a $1.5 trillion tax cut. >> part of the grand idea was to create a deficit situation where they could say we have to create entitlements. well see what ...

Its driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, medicare, social security and medicaid. thats 70% of -- hopefully, at some point here well get serious about this. we havent been yet. >> this is what democrats, mark, said all along. theyre going to pass this tax cut, which is going to set the deficit up to even higher levels, hundreds of billions of dollars more, trill jobs more in the long-term and come for medicare, medicaid, social security, et cetera. >> so as you come...

Congress and you have the power to do tax cuts and spending, you dont necessarily want to cut these entitlements. >> look, it is -- ive got to think that sound bite is going to go almost directly into democratic -- what are democrats running on in this election? two things. the attempt to repeal the affordable care act and second, the argument that the republican tax cut will eventually require them to go after medicare, social security and medicate. now you have mitch mcconnell joining paul rya...

On the stage. she said yes. the night was fast moving. the one moment it slowed down. good for both of them. congrats. all right. republicans got tax cuts for 2018. will 2019 be the year of entitlement cuts? li listen to larry kudlow in new york yesterday. >> as far as entitlements, i think everybody will look at that probably next year. we have to be tougher on spending. people are quick to blame deficits on tax cuts. i dont buy that. >> the comment came as part of the larger discussion of th...

Yes she is like barack obama. i thought of two things. number one, she plays fast and loose with the facts. she doesnt really have a firm grasp of whats going on like obama did, so they rely on emotion. her response to, remember, she gave the example about the military budget on trevor noah show. she was completely off. she gave the example on the minutian situation over in israel, had really no idea there. she even acknowledged it they asked her about how to pay for the entitlement programs, sh...

Itself. if it doesnt, then it doesnt. but right now, were expecting the new gdp figures soon. you know the consensus appears to be in the high high 3s, perhaps 4. anyway, set that aside what we have to do is reform current entitlement programs for future generations. ill say it until im blue in the face. its the most foreseeable prices in americas history and i regret that we as a nation havent come to grims with it in a $12 billion bailout to farmers is not helpful. >> so let me ask you this. h...

Time in jail in this country, would a cable news anchor cry over the fate of my children? >> no, you are a conservative. they will celebrate throwing you in jail. this is a political play for them. liberalism is dead. its a vacuum. they dont stand for anything. their policy platforms are not tenable. they cant put up a campaign sign that says give us your money and health care and let us take over the public schools. they have to replace those lost votes with fear and replacing them with open bo...