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Dont like the say bad things about other people but isnt it obvious that most republicans dont care about this the way you do? >> what i would say is, both political bodies on the house and senate side are a reflection of what people are talking about back home. and to be honest, not enough people are talking about debt deficit spending back home. it is the three monkeys routine in washington, d.c. as it relates to debt and government spending. i hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil. it will re...

Getting into with earthquakes and fires, but is there any role for the government in this? >> this is more than expected but sometimes we talk about the national debt and getting it under control and one of the reasons, national security and economic security and things like this happen and we want to be a nimble society responding appropriately. >> i have family in this area, i am a nervous wreck about this but john mccain pointed did out the government spent $290 million in federal programs th...

Bad armageddon movie but the fear is out there. >> i kind of agree with nancy pelosi, that we are -- i think the taxes do perpetuate the fiscal armageddon that we find ourselves in the we dont fix our spending problem. this tax plan does add over a trillion dollars to the deficit. it does not pay for herself. so i kind of like seeing nancy pelosi act like a budget hawk. its funny. i get a big kick out of it. but the fact of the matter is, at the end of the day shes lying and they are lying about...

It could add to the national debt. i want to take a look at something you said earlier when you were a member of congress and then well talk about it. take a look. >> we should be in the united states senate today and next week talking about how we are going to put together a blueprint that makes sure that we do not continue to borrow from countries like china, that we do not continue to enslave our children with the debt that this country is accumulating. and we know that if we do not address t...

They just want to win. win at any cost. this is going to cost middle class taxpayers. >> who is going to own that deficit issue after this. the senate tax bill as a trillion dollars to our -- >> as republicans we should. >> who owns that? >> its almost $22 trillion now. i was waiting to see what the dynamic score was because thats what a lot of republicans said when it was the 1.4 trillion added. the score came out and said it was only $1 trillion. clearly that defined physical conservativism. n...

Them criticizing that idea now. your first $24,000 is without tax. >> melissa: this idea, it drives me nuts when i hear people in washington say were going to pay for these tax breaks. by shifting the tax burden to someone else. i would like to pay for me keeping more of my own money. our people in washington spending less? are we doing that? >> its the peoples money, its not the governments money. when reagan went into effect, we had $100 million in additional revenue. when the john f. kennedy ...

Cuts. thats not the question to ask. tax cuts dont need to be paid for. spending needs to be paid for. its all the spending in the future. we dont have a revenue problem. we have a spending problem. thats the bottom line. >> neil: as you point out, if youre going to worry about how to pay for taxes, thats fine. shouldnt you have a similar zeal to go after the other debt? how do we pay for $1.5 trillion of tax cuts, how do we pay for a similar amount in spending because the spending is a lot more...

Conservatives are going to like. >> shannon: quickly, there are people who say theyve forgotten about cutting spending. >> hello. washington doesnt have a tax problem. it has a spending problem. if they had begun with that at the very beginning, this whole process would be easier. >> shannon: gentlemen, we have to leave it there. chris and i will get back to you on that, charlie. >> i like that "hello." >> shannon: all right, hello and goodbye. gentlemen, coming up are going to have the latest f...

Conservatives are going to like. >> shannon: quickly, there are people who say theyve forgotten about cutting spending. >> hello. washington doesnt have a tax problem. it has a spending problem. if they had begun with that at the very beginning, this whole process would be easier. >> shannon: gentlemen, we have to leave it there. chris and i will get back to you on that, charlie. >> i like that "hello." >> shannon: all right, hello and goodbye. gentlemen, coming up are going to have the latest f...

Blueprint that is going to blow a $2.4 trillion hole in the deficit, when people who were, -- >> if youre going to accuse me of hypocrisy, we have a spending problem in this country. the text could you bring and what is needed. [multiple speakers] >> republicans have not called for this trillion dollars and cuts. >> republicans are completely gutless when it comes to spending. no one can deny that but that is not hypocrisy on the part of anyone in the panel. >> im the saying the republican party...