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Nationwide march for equality and pride today. its to prevent discrimination against those in the lgbtq community and highlights disable rights. and we have a winner. the winning powerball jackpot worth a whopping $447 million. ill just take the rounding error. it was is sold in sun city, california. the drawing was the tenth largest lottery prize in u.s. history. all right. now while attorney general jeff sessions getting ready to appear tuesday before the senate intelligence committee behi...

Budget. more than $4 trillion, it is the biggest budget ever submitted by any country ever in the history of earth, of man kind. over the next ten years, it maps out spending of -- sitting down? of course you are -- $55 trillion. you know what its supposedly cut something nothing. nothing at all. like i said, cutting is when you take a figure and reduce that to a lesser figure. no, this budget shaves the increase in spending over the ten-year period by about 3.5 trillion. 3.6 trillion to be exac...

Inflation of healthcare. thats not correct. >> neil: lets not go off on a tangent with me here. lets talk about the budget. 55 trillion spent the next ten years. the administration is looking at -- im hardly an a poll gist. they dont do my show. they want to pair 3.6 trillion over ten years. you would have to conclude that is a rounding error on a rounding error, would you not? >> not for the part of the budget that theyre cutting. what youre highlighting, neil -- and i agree with it -- is that ...

A rounding error. this is not meant to be a political squabble here. just a discussion of math. for more on that, i want to go to austin. i know where youre coming from. you know where im coming from on this math here. if this is hartless and cruel and going to kill children, do you find as a very smart guy with numbers that justifies? that response justified and does it make you want to vomit when fellow democrats say that? ill let you take it from here. >> you know, it doesnt make me want to v...

To take a red pencil to the budget and say this can go, they cant do it. dagen: you want to respond? >> grandchildren are pretty far down the line so i dont have a comment. dagen: john, you have the final word. >> whether the arts are good or bad doesnt matter when you are talking about a $4 trillion budget and a couple billion dollars, that is a rounding error, not a days worth of interest expense. two thirds of the budget is social security, medicaid, medicaid, debt service, you have to do som...

Missile strikes in syria, the number of democratic voters who supported that was 38%. now new year, 2017, new president, its 37%. different of one point. basically, a rounding error. thats how democrats have changed their minds on that issue over four years. now lets look at the republicans. 2013 when it was president obama, the proportion of republican voters who thought it would be okay for president obama to shoot missiles into syria was 22%. ask republicans today, now that we have a republic...

Also asked that exact same question back in 2013 when it was this guy, president obama considering a missile strike in syria. so we not only have the new polling on the question this week, we basically have the act same polling question from 2013. and just look at the response. everybody who has ever told you that democrats and republicans are mirror images of each other, they both have all of the same problems, look at this. look at the democrats numbers first. back in 2013 when it was presiden...

President, its 37%. different of one point. basically, a rounding error. thats how democrats have changed their minds on that issue over four years. now lets look at the republicans. 2013 when it was president obama, the proportion of republican voters who thought it would be okay for president obama to shoot missiles into syria was 22%. ask republicans today, now that we have a republican president, look at their response. oh. the number jumps from 22 to 86% when you ask republican voters if th...

President trumps call for another $54 billion in defense spending is reverberating far beyond u.s. borders. one unintended side effect being felt in russia. the 54 billion would only be a 10% spike for the pentagon, but its more than the entire defense budget in moscow. now generals there are using trumps move to ask the kremlin for more cash. cnns international diplomatic editor nick robertson is live in moscow for us. nick, all this talk about this $600 billion overall defense budget, its a re...

Art of using the threat of litigation to get your way. its been an effective tool for him sometimes. >> because, obviously, people dont want to get into litigation. a lot of people dont have access to lawyers like donald trump does. so theyre scared. >> and they dont have the money he has to litigate. >> to drag something out in a lawsuit for years and years and years. >> and its a rounding error for him. but for other people, its real money. >> its also fascinating, we havent heard it so much l...