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Hes a scholar. the famous book is "the fatal conceit." to think our finite human minds can manage a system for 300 million people that vary from texas to california. its impossible. we need to return to it the states and the individuals. >> as someone who speaks with experience about finite human minds, i appreciate the last comment. it would take four votes to block it on the budget committee. are there four votes today? >> its going to be close. theyre still making up their minds as the eviden...

So this is a part of soft power. you talk about elements of national power. youve got diplomatic power. youve got information power. youve got economic power. this would fall in diplomatic power, how we can coerce a population and engage a population and hold in a supporting effort the population while the military engages in the major effort, the primary effort thats going. >> its important to know, general, youve worked in the military and in government in north carolina, so you know there are...

Budget, john, its got to come from there or a few other places. when you look at the scale of where hes putting money, its in defense programs and veterans programs, what he said he would do on the campaign trail. hes trimming money from the epa, usaid, the state department. thats really no surprise. i expected a number of about 25%. >> last question, when general mattis implied it would make commanders jobs harder overseas. >> hes coming fresh off the battlefield in that interview. so for me, i...

Call it, by these sort of strange tweets. they never know when and where these things are going to come up at them. but they do know they are going to have to keep answering for them. once again, we see donald trump doubling down on this with his dark suggestions theres some kind of investigation coming that will prove his point, sort of reminiscent of the supposed investigators that he sent to hawaii to prove that president obama was not born in the united states. >> were still waiting for the ...

Speech. so the courts are a little bit in uncharted territory here to use that continuously against anything that comes from the administration. if you think about it, the domino effect is what could the president actually order or rule if hes always held to his pre national security briefed self. >> its a very, very high standard that goes beyond just this issue when you sit back and think about it. laura jarrett, what next? >> now i think were lickly to see two different appeals going at the e...

Were going to get something done. were going to change it, karen, seems to be the message there. how much can he change it without upsetting one wing of the party or another? >> his party keeps saying hes such a great dealmaker, and he now indicates that he might be willing to get down in the weeds on the policy. this is something we have not seen from donald trump so far, something that president obama, in getting obamacare passed, had to do quite frequently. so the question here is, what weve ...

Achieve them. >> he wants a win. he wants to sign a bill. he wants something passed. he may not care as much about paul ryan as specifically whats in that bill. the question is can president trump find a way to get something passed that wont upset the principles that paul ryan believes in? susan, i was struck yesterday by jeffrey lord, our cnn political commentator, clearly someone who supports president trump, maybe more than he supports the establishment republican party. jeffrey said, you kno...

Pick it now. get it deny. two questions. does the president believer surveilled through microwaves and televisions? >> im not going to -- i will say the president has tweeted about this. he is clear he believes there was is your vie lance conducted between the 2016, im going to wait for the conclusion of. that i think there is pretty sound evidence that the microwave is not a sound way of surveilling someone. i think that has been cleaned up. it was made in jest. i think we can put that to rest....

Cbo good at counting money in and out, numbers taxes policies and so forth. not so sure they are the best folks to -- >> actually if you read the entire report i am encouraged and it exceeded by expectations. >> the fact is the current program failed and the cbo doesnt account for that. second, what the report looked at was only one third of our plan. thats why you cant look at this in isolation. >> im a encouraged by the cbo report. >> that is a selection of some of the biggest defenders of the...

Budget impact, it talks about how while we currently see a 25% increase in premiums this year under obamacare in the individual market it markedly shows that under the kurnd american health care act there will be a 10% decline in premium. where i think the cbo hassed goen it wrong -- its not a question of what we characterize it as its a fact of the when they characterized people under coverage it was 50% wrong last time. i think the point we are trying to make is when you look at their record a...