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If regulations only add time and money to our lives and dont do anything else, isnt that a good thing? but where is the spending reduction to go along with this? his words regarding immigration and the border and building a wall, i completely disagree with. we are a country of immigrants. and bottom line, i dont think he tells the truth. there is a lack of integrity with donald trump and thats what i built my career on is telling the truth and having integrity and let it lay. look, were all huma...

Time for us to act like the majority party, get these things done, just as we did in tax reform. and that is what people want to see. getting the government funded in doing that in a responsible way. i would like to see us bring in some spending reduction, so we are looking at the long-term and not just the short term. >> sandra: on many of these issues, the question is, how will he will democrats be to compromise? >> we would love to have them at the table with us. we are very disappointed that...

Hike on middle class, hard-working americans, you are talking about gutting public education, its completely to your point, it is so extreme that theres nothing that it can really defend, theres really a provision for private jet owners which is not my, its not my neighbors, its not the folks that we are trying to care about here. if we have going to have tax reform, they cannot be provisions for private jet ownership. heather: let me get to ron and ron, what do you have to say about that? >> he...

Is destroying this country. but other than that theyre great folks. >> well tell them you said that. >> do you think they want to deal with you and solve the fiscal crisis? >> only if they get a tax increase. dont talk to us about any kind of spending restraint, trying to save social security or medicare for future generations unless youre willing to increase taxes on the american taxpayerer it which from my standpoint is counter product. >> i have they cant get democrats to vote for it without ...

Ceiling. every major spending reduction deal of the last 30 years has been done with the debt ceiling. the president is the one that is saying he wants to change that trend, and do this entire debt ceiling proposal without any efforts. >> with all due respect sir, the democrats have come down to about the paul ryan spending number. what you just talked about, the compromises you want, are still on the affordable care act, which are not about spending. that is a settled policy. youre still tying ...

Something you cant do through this process, because it is nondiscretionary spending. do you believe that is a reasonable, historically sort of feasible proposition? >> yeah. i mean, i would tell you this. no one wants to see the debt ceiling breached. every major spending reduction legislation of the last 30 years has been in conjunction with the debt ceiling. >> were not talking about spending reductions now. were talking about the affordable care act, a policy that has nothing to do with spend...

Middle class is why he got into politics, bill. bill: what has been the republican response on this, wendell? >> reporter: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell accuses president of doing endless political road shows when he wants to change the subject. he says the president should be working with republicans instead of talking at them. mcconnell says he will push to keep the spending cuts forced by the so-called sequester. >> i know the administration is anxious to undo the commitment to the b...

Spending this amount of money this year. we would be happy to talk to them about reconfiguring the way the spending reduction is achieved but we are not going to cut a penny less than we said we would. >> are you expecting he will propose some more revenue razors? >> thats what he has been a advocating on the campaign trail. >> your response will be with all due respect no. >> the answer is no. he will not get all of the taxes he wants. this big bloated federal government will spend 3.6 trillion...

Thats why he will not work with republicans and not put up any numbers except for budgets that have been so absurd they couldnt get democrats to vote for it. >> megyn: kirsten, i went back and trying to look at 2.5 trillion dollars in deficit reductions and what i gather, only 1.4 trillion of true spending reduction, the rest is like tax hikes and so on, okay? so true spending reductions and of that 1.4 trillion in spending reductions that hes agreed to, they take place over the next several yea...

Way the spending reduction is achieved, but were not going to cut a penny less than we said we would. >> john: are you expecting that he will propose tomorrow some more revenue raisers? >> thats what hes been advocating out on the campaign trail. >> john: so your response to him will be, mr. president, with all due respect, no? >> the answer is no, hes already gotten all the taxes hes going to get. he got it two months ago. were asking this big bloated government thats going to spend 6.3 trillio...