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>> the vast majority of stock is owned by the top 5%. it is true that a lot of americans bought a very tiny amount of stock indirectly but the fact is that when you increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion, thats an additional debt -- >> laura: so now you are a deficit hawk? >> im against -- >> laura: i am too, by the way. you guys were against budget caps. you didnt want to do the budget caps. obama was dragged kicking and screaming for the sequester caps. i was all for those. a lot of big spendin...

President trump and secretary mattis. we saw two more planes fall out of the sky last night, we finally restored air superiority in this field. given our troops a pay raise. there are tremendous president trump republican priorities in this bill. >> laura: ive got to get in on this sequester cap. i know this was considered a very high make harsh measure. when the sequester caps were in, he didnt decrease spending, they decreased the rate of increase in spending, crazy washington speak. there wer...

President trump and secretary mattis. we saw two more planes fall out of the sky last night, we finally restored air superiority in this field. given our troops a pay raise. there are tremendous president trump republican priorities in this bill. >> laura: ive got to get in on this sequester cap. i know this was considered a very high make harsh measure. when the sequester caps were in, he didnt decrease spending, they decreased the rate of increase in spending, crazy washington speak. there wer...

Two week span hes completely flipped, is basically invisible at the white house yesterday. thats not what leadership looks like. >> oddly that meeting and well talk more about the presidents leadership style that was the beginning of the end in the sense the president said i want an act of love. within 48 hours he had lurched back to the right. you could see this going on for a long time. the spending issues are not the issues. its hard for republicans. one of the issues is breaking the so-calle...

Awe-inspiring place. l 3 ceo is there as well. michael, very good to have you. all of this comes at a time, the tax cuts and then the budget stuff and then were going to be hearing tax that they want a free spending level and john mckeane and others want to increase that and others say if you increase that, increase defense spending. your thoughts. >> its encouraging even now because some of the discussion has been, one, the sequester caps have yet to be raised and we really cant increase our de...

As griff just said, they have got to do it on friday if they want to be able to pass tax reform with 50 votes. the good news is the margin is a little bigger because thad cochran who has been very ill is apparently back in washington, d.c. brian: which is a pleasant surprise. they thought for sure he was out for the week. steve: rand paul is ready to vote no. because, as griff just said, he doesnt like the fact that the g.o.p. is going to spend billions in spending. he wants to get rid of $4 bil...

Centuries stand up. how does paul and republicans like the two of you ride the bus? >> i dont think paul will be hurt by it. its so interesting how he fell on this issue i was against the bucket deal. you wrote an editorial for the budget dell. i think things are so right now, i think the republican party is in such flux t. tea party right wing conservatives didnt want to have another government shutdown. i dont think a budget dell, i hate i. i dont think it hurts, palm, in the long run, do you?...

They certainly are -- and, therefore, in their weakened state they can be made to swallow raising of these sequester caps as theyre called. this is the spending limits that have actually, as you heard senator corker say, driven government spending down a little bit over the last couple years. i think its a fools errand. its not going anywhere. even if you could get it up in the senate and somehow pass it, i dont think you could ever get it through the house, so i think its dead. martha: what abo...

Really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps, these things that we put into law to restrain spending already. and its funny theyre all about obamacare being the law of the land, but so is the sequester. the sequester is the law of the land. if we exceed that, its a real big step in the wrong direction. >> i agree with him on that. i do think, though, that he and lots of other people are stopping with the obamacare. you just get a little glimpse of it $63...

>> i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing that i think is really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps. >> so where are we on that issue, sequester caps? harry reid as you know when he and john boehner entered into that agreement that boehner wasnt able to hold up in september, had agreed to the lower level of funding. now it sounds as though democrats are pushing for the higher level. where do you think were going to land on this? >> yo...