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Up some of these costs so high that any pull-back from thatseef draconian cuts. he has doubled it. >> this is the problem with the beltway definition of cut. it is not a cut, it is just a slower level of spending increase that they define as a cut. >> if this is money thrown out to everyone, it doesnt make college more affordable, because colleges over time are very efficient at pocketing that extra money that comes from the federal government, tuition rises accordingly. >> as collin pointed out...

Network with more on this is lauren simonetti. it is pretty ugly for the budget deficit. this is the 4th year in a pro where we are running a deficit of more than $1 trillion. if you look at the damage done in may a spending increase of 30 percent. deficit of 31.3 percent. verizon wireless is called share erg plan. literally its that. verizon wireless wants you to put all of your devices on its network. under these plans between 50 and 100 a month you can hook up to 10 devices and pay for ea...

The republican side the whole grover norquist pledge, every one of them said they wouldnt accept a deal for $10 in tax cuts or spending -- im screwing everything up today -- $10 in rev -- $10 in deficit reduction for $1 spending increase and still wouldnt go along with that. it shows you how far extreme they are in terms of the republican party versus where the republican party was under ronald reagan. >> good for jeb bush saying thats a good deal and he would have been in on it and good for sen...

And then when we take over, weve got to clean it up. megyn: chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com. chris, welcome back. so the president is spinning what has been one of the most effective arguments against him the other way saying its really the republicans who are the overspenders and not president obama, and hes pointing to one study done by market watch that talks about how his rate of spending has been lower than president george w. ...

Is, as that bill comes up, that master card bill comes up, in a few years, interest spending alone will drown out everything. he doesnt want to change entitlements and we know were not going to get any savings there. and for all david said, spending is still going to go up. the rate of this spending increase might top off a little, but thats still going up. across the board, youre right. nothings changed and thats why were going to become greece. >> jonas-- >> if i might clarify my statement, br...

Set off important cuts if they dont do it, right? >> yes and no. here is the depressing part, brenda, if everyone walks away, what he they call a sequester, i believe, and then the, the cuts amount to over the next ten years, the increases will still increase in the budget, 1.6 trillion dollars. >> right. >> without the sequester, its 1.7 trillion dollars, so, youre talking a drop in the bucket, but ill tell you what, brenda, at this point i would take that rather than had a just flat out spendi...

welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. im soledad obrien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. >> thank you. we have a lot to do today. lets get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says its now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims phones. a report in another british tabloid, "the mirror" quoting a source who says "news of...

Of creating long-term sustainable jobs. they can fix the potholes, what happens after. we need entrepreneurs out there starting new businesses and private number is very important, which wasnt bad this month. the government had a negative number and the private sector is actually creating jobs and the problem is were not creating enough per month to get the people off their butts, basically back to work. >> president obama had this to say about the economy this week, i think we have a sound bite...

Institutes of health. and 500 million from the cops program, which puts more police on the streets. congressman, when it gets down to those specification, are you willing to defend all of those cuts? >> yes. because last year these agencies got double and triple digit spending increases. you throw the stimulus in there, e.p.a. got a triple-digit spending increase. look, if borrowing and spending was the way to create jobs, we would be at full employment. we are not. we have high unemployment. so...

In your first term around cigarette tax? >> when i became governor, spending actually increased 2% in my first term. revenue increased 42% my first term. without raising anybodys taxes we did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. thats how you get your revenue up. we did that without raising anybodys taxes. revenue increased 50% faster than spending increase. spending went up 2, revenue went up 42. 50% difference. without raising taxes. i did my second term, raised the cigar...