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People. and i think thats important. now, again, i think that we will continue to work with congress, but the president understands that we have commitments we made on the entitlement side, in particular, especially on the senior side with respect to social security, that need to be maintained. and so, hes going to keep his word to the american people. >> but did you talk to some economic analysts they say social security, medicare, wont be there in a number of years if we dont address -- >> rig...

On the entitlement side and thats the way to do it, merge them. >> tucker: if those groups can live together, that would be formidable, thanks a lot for the spread of >> always a pleasure, send your last guest a copy of the looming tower, he needs to read a little bit. >> tucker: thank you, hugh. the nominees for the trump administration are being confirmed at the slowest pace ever, democrats are talking impeachment, will talk to one congressman who says his partys behavior hasnt been that bad, ...

By the way also enabled jeff sessions get confirmed by using the reed rule to destroy the filibuster. its harry reids legacy, its a mess. its a completely uncivil place that i dont know mitch mcconnell can repair even if he wants to.o. im not sure we want to repair it until after gorsuch is confirmed. >> tucker: its an uncivil country out all of a sudden. you wrote a book on the fourth way, whats the fourth way? >> the fourth way is a succession to big government, ronald reagans attempt to roll ...

It. and and then you saw other candidates either running away from the issue or putting forward myths about we really dont have to do anything to fix health care programs and thats just not true. the key to getting our budget fixed is dealing with entitlements. jenna: doug, it is confusing, thats why we have to turn to experts about, again, what is best for us and our families. is it pursuing a flat tax or hearing more on entitlement reform? >> i dont think you should pick. first of all, a tax r...

On the sequester, were actually succeeding as a movement in reducing government spending on the domestic side pretty significantly. but theres no acknowledgment of that by some folks in the washington establishment. i think we should have been talking more about that. its a real accomplishment by our party to try to reduce spending in that way and what we should do is now move to the entitlement side to start to work on that side as well. then we can really look towards tax reform and other thin...

Stamp cuts and frankly to look, again, at the sequester. in exchange for letting that money rise a little bit, lightning up on the sequester to try to do something at least going forward long haul on the entitlement side. >> perry, really quickly here, jennifer rubin just brought up looking at the sequester. that is something we have heard from both parties wanting to take a look during these current budget negotiations, this big committee that theyre convening. is that something thats political...

This background checks bill. and as youve all been saying, not just in your show, but throughout the day. this is something that 90% of americans support. its the most common sense of common sense gun safety improvements that we could do. we believe that the senate should do it. >> quickly on immigration, i know there are a lot of things that can come up at dinner. "meet the press" with lindsay graham, he said he thought what the president had been proposing is proposing in his budget is a step ...

Get cuts that impact the second ten years and the third ten years is to do it on the entitlement side. i think the president has already put chain cpi on the table. >> yep. >> his base wont like, and will he have to do a selling job on his base. if the president it is lets do this, i need another $600 billion in revenue, well give you, you know, two and a half, three times that in spending cuts, theyre going to be real spending cuts, i think we have a chants to do something thats really meaningf...

You. there are a lot of suburban republican congressman who are absolute absolutely signing their death warrant. >> well, why not make the point on the sequester. why go to this extreme of a government shutdown. >> well, id actually agree with the governor. i think that that is a better spot to hold some ground. quite honestly, because those cuts are already in play. everybody knows theyre there. theyre across the board on the entitlement side as well as the defense side. and i think as the gove...

>> well, bill you know that and i know that in part because we watch fox news, and fox news reports it that way which is the straight forward way to report it. you can find that out from the other media, but you have to read it carefully because its not apparent. all the conversation, all the discussion, all the news thats made in this whole discussion since the end of the election has been about what? its been about tax rates on the rich. >> bill: right. >> thats been the whole story. the fact ...