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Spoke earlier to ari fleischer former bush white house press secretary and fox news contributor from new york. ari fleischer, welcome. >> thank you, howard. howie: one thing that reporters love to cover as you know is the legislative sausage making but an area that has gotten extraordinarily little media scrutiny president biden proposing to spend $6 trillion on a vast a ray of programs and no one in the press seems to care about the exploding deficit and debt. why do they not care about that. >...

The bush tax cuts did the same thing, they supposedly would expire after nine years. what we tell folks is this. if its good policy, it will become permanent. if its bad policy, it will become temporary. thats just the way it is. so this is done more to force and shoe horn the bill into the rules because we think its good policy. >> isnt that an admission that its a gimmick? youre saying its a $1.5 trillion tax cut, the impact on the deficit but in fact according to most analyses $2.2 trillion. ...

Networks you may understand who they are, they accuse us of raising taxes on the rich. so i think it sort of depends on how you look at it. >> were not taking a political point of view here, we are actually going by nonpartisan groups like the committee for a responsible federal budget, all the impact on the exploding deficit, which will impact future generations. i do want to ask you, though, because the president has refused to talk about roy moore since hes back from his trip. and the white h...

Do is they take attention, if we dont handle the environment correctly, if we dont have the rules correctly, because tax reform clearly is going to affect the country. its going to affect our economic future. looking at the way that the tax bill has been reported, i can understand peoples concern about it. but when you look at the real tax bill, both house and senate, i think its designed to do two things. one is to create immediately more take-home pay for hard-working families, and the second ...

Got this sexual harassment on both sides, not equivalent, but roy moore front and center, robert costa. >> roy moore is front and center, and republicans are worried that he could lose that race or win that race, its a problem for them. on taxes, though, i dont buy the confidence yet based on my reporting. youve got senator ron johnson of wisconsin -- >> they think theyve got him. they think they have a fix for him on small businesses. >> but you talk about trickle-down economics, that still rem...

Real solutions can be delivered, but it will take leadership and the courage to tell you the truth. mitt romney is this kind of leader. >> paul ryan has become an intellectual leader of the republican party. he understands the fiscal challenges facing america, our exploding deficit and crushing debt, and the fiscal catastrophe that awaits us if we dont change course. >> bret: that was today. its a virginia stop today on this bus tour that is ongoing. just stopped in manassas a few moments ago, e...

Go back to. weve stabilized. weve had private sector job growth now for 26 straight months. the president is the first person to say the economy is not as strong as any of us would like it to be. every election is a choice. mitt romney, when he was governor of massachusetts, had the worst economic record in the country. number one debt, 47th in job creation. so hes tried it there and it didnt work. we saw what happened in the last decade. falling income, exploding deficit. mitt romney and his co...

>> the big lie has worked in propaganda and politics for ages and works again now. >> whats the game? suppose more documentation comes out and he says ill shut out now. >> some think thats his theory, that he has no real entree so hes chosen this. the trouble is, hes riding a tiger and if you fall off the back of the tiger, the tiger eats you. >> whats his exit strategy? after last night, what is it? does he quit? >> i think hell go all the way with this. >> all the way to the presidency? >> it ...

>> the big lie has worked in propaganda and politics for ages and works again now. >> whats the game? suppose more documentation comes out and he says ill shut out now. >> some think thats his theory, that he has no real entree so hes chosen this. the trouble is, hes riding a tiger and if you fall off the back of the tiger, the tiger eats you. >> whats his exit strategy? after last night, what is it? does he quit? >> i think hell go all the way with this. >> all the way to the presidency? >> it ...

Welcome back. keep that government off my medicare.ç it is a government program, but thats a cry you hear a lot of. but a new poll out today ask if people support cutting medicare and medicaid to deal with the big government deficit right now. 92% say no way. 73% of republicans say leave it alone. and 75% of independents say leave it alone. and get this, the people who come out against government spending and they do care about it, 70% of tea partiers say leave it alone. but get these add up t...