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Sounds like a clicheed statement. liz, this involves day care where all taxpayers would cover the cost of day care for everyone, for all of their neighbors and everyone else regardless of whether or not they have children themselves and where people can take 12 weeks off every year if the need arises every year for family leave and paid $1,000 a week for that family leave regardless of how much they make. your thoughts, liz on this transformative proposal and where it stands now. >> well, obviou...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. thats why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the action...

Quarters that growth exceeded 3% and just touched it. you can see that in the last quarter growth will be wellnd 2% and declining from there according to jp morgan, goldman sachs and everybody else who looks at this, except the white house who claims growth but its what mirage. look at the budget deficit. the budget deficit did hit a low point during the financial crisis but it came back most of the way and now you can see that because of the trump tax cuts and because of the entitlements progra...

Theres no room for you to move? >> i would vote for block grant at pre-obama levels. if you want to look at 2009 levels with medicaid i would say yes. but after you doubled the spending on these entitlements programs, we have a $700 trillion deficit this year. and $20 trillion debt. we cant keep piling on new money. there has to be a few conservatives left in washington to say were really for repealing obama care. >> lit me ask a question, and you probably have heard the speculation, but "the na...

Debt are medicare, medicaid, social security, defense and interest on the budget and none of that was touched. well, he wants to slash medicaid, of course. defense spending went up. interest rates are going to start going up. the problem becomes more difficult. all these jackals running around on capitol hill that say theyre going to balance the budget by cutting $15 from big bird are just lying to their constituents, lying to themselves, discretionary domestic spending is not going to even dent...

That immigrants do commit more crime, otherwise donk i dont think the left should be hysterical about why are you deporting if its a small crime. i dont know, how many small crimes have you committed? and these are guests in our country, but its also the kind of crimes theyre committing. so, i mean, one thing thats been driving me crazy is hearing paul ryan, i mean, his specialty is we got the to reform entitlements. that means you americans will have to wait longer to collect your social securi...

Run out of other peoples money. >> we have two entitlements programs sfshgs we cant afford obama care, and we cant afford a single payer system. >> i have to tell you, you want to have universal health care? okay. lets take the v. amount as our model. how well has that worked? not at all. when it comes to bending the cost curve, the president originally promised that your health care under obama care would cost you the same as a cell phone service, right? not so much. not flls it was gold plated...

Hour. president obama conducts interviewes with spanish language networks telemundo and univision kpekted to focus on immigration reform. meantime, senator john mccain cancelled second town hall meeting in arizona yesterday. no reason given. cancellation came a day after senator faced some tough questions at town hall in phoenix about granting the nations 11 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. >> how would you -- how would you advise, we the people, to fight against amnesty. >> i d...

He will have a failed presidency unless he deals honestly with the entitlements programs without cutting, you know, the poor and the wretched and all the rest and all this stuff and getting solvency for social security, then the scorecard in years to come was he failed. >> that was alan simpson, of course, who along with erskine bowles rolled out a new proposal to reduce the deficit by $2.4 trillion over a decade. it would save $600 billion through changes to health care programs and another $60...

Of social security he will have a failed presidency. and if he wants to have a leg gasy of the -- legacy, the new fdr, the second, whatever drives him, that is fine with me, but he will have a failed presidency unless he deals honestly with the entitlements programs without cutting, you know, the poor and the wretched and all the wrest and all this stuff. bill: i dont know if he is the lone ranger but that is some plain talk. stephen hayes, senior writer, "weekly standard", fox news contributor....