Your party passed a bill in the house to balance the budget. How did we get to this point . That is not just the spending. That is the deficit. Onhave gotten there based benign neglect. On the democratic side, more versus more. On the republican side, i see no evil, i speak no evil, but it is a great detriment to the american taxpayer, American Dream, but we got here. Hard, soith it will be people dont want to and have left it alone. Troublesomeularly with the weight is president has made promises to eliminate the debt. Be ahas proven to completely empty promise. He raised the debt by 9 billion. He signed off on deals raising additional billions in debt. Is that there has been zero leadership on the president ial level, benign neglect from the congressional level. Debt in one year. Where is the Republican Party that has claimed to be deficit hawks . Malignuld describe it as neglect, not benign neglect. This is a National Security issue. We cant rely on other countries our debt. It is an intergenerational burden on the younger people in this country. They will never see Social Security, unless we stop running these deficits. Deficit on my16 first month in office and closed it in one month. Budget items as sacred cows. It is zerobased budgeting. A deficit toou cut zero in a year. Thats what we need in d. C. Debt approaching 23 trillion, raise taxes . Cut spending . A combination . Reduce military spending . All the above. I did a bill called the penny what you have to do is recognize the problem. Right, left, i guess it is not a problem. Asked what is was the biggest threat to National Security, it was the american debt. You have to recognize you have a problem. That is why we are running. Absence of that on the spending front from the standpoint of this president. Conversationshad to meolks, it is amazing the way americans can rally around a problem to fix it if they see this problem. Would youplan says accept one penny and cuts for every dollar you got if everyone else was cut by one penny as well . Republicans versus democrats, i am not giving up mine, because they are not giving up theirs. Would you raise taxes . Never. I never raise taxes as governor. You cut spending. There is only one way, cut spending. People say that is impossible. It is impossible only in washington, with the democrats want to risk social spending by 5 or 10 , the republicans want to raise military spending by 5 or 10 , so they demonize each other to scare their base. Once they get reelected, then they come back next year and agreed to compromise by raising everything 20 , and that is how you get a 1 trillion deficit. There is no discipline there. It takes a searching examination of how every program performed the previous year, and if it did not perform, it should be cut to zero. With two thirds of the budget entitlement programs, do you go after those programs, how . Pennyts why i say one out of everything. Everything . Defense, foreign aid, everything. Kids,s tell me, i love my but my grandkids more. Would i give up one penny out of every dollar . Everyoneif and only if else was in the same boat. We have lost the intent of the as we havethers become increasingly polarized. Category ofgrowing the government you and i own is interest costs. That ifowing so fast you are a social progressive, think about this. In just one year, we will spend more on interest than all programs on behalf of children in the United States of america. If your left, you have to care about it. We will spendht, more on interest in three years then we will spend on the entirety of our defense budget. Onenterest rates go up point, in just the cost of that one point rise in Interest Rates , we will spend more on that than all uniformed military personnel, everybody, reserve, active duty, guard. Andnumbers are astounding begin to spin out of control. Threat to ouremic way of life and it is the elephant in the room nobody is talking about on the democratic side or with this president. You had the house, the senate, the white house, what happened to the party that was so critical of barack obama spending, and now nearly at her a trillion dollars in 12 months . I think what happened is both parties, including the republicans, were insufficiently creative. Social spending is supposed to be one of the holy grails i was National Chairman of the privatization council, so i think the private sector can often do a better job than the government and delivering what were previously government services. We have put a lot of social Services Spending out for bids, s. Nonprofits, the 501 c 3 in boston, there were nonprofits run by minorities who wanted to serve their own populations. They underbid the state employee unions in terms of cost and did a better job, so we saved 300 million and got a better delivery of services, but if you werent prepared to be creative about how we deliver to the services, to red brick thedings, or two houses deliver those services in a much more humane and dignified manner for the people receiving them . That saves a lot of money. I have never seen federal, state, local government that was not 10 or 20 higher in terms of spending than it needed to be. You have to think outside the box and have the political will to do that. Let me dovetail on that, it doesnt mean ending government services, it means making them more efficient for individuals. Think about with the governor said. Young folks are more likely to the fulln ufos and get value of their Social Security check. Look at counties down in 1983, yous, prior to could create your own social that is system, and with those counties did. If you talk to a janitor, a fireman, folks who say they love our program. They are in an annuity. A Supreme Court decision said none of us have any legal claim whatsoever to the Social Security system. They have a real account. If they died, they can give it to their kids, church, a charity. It has produced a higher rate of return for individuals. Ofre are lots of ways skinning the cat that dont entail more government. To your earlier question about what happened, what happened is congress is almost unable to lead. That is not the way it was designed. It takes executive Branch Leadership. When the president says we will , add toh entitlements defense, have a tax cut, what it does is give the house and senate ceeo incentive to say, no. That is why it is so important we have this conversation and executive Branch Leadership on the subject. Weld foranford in bill the next 90 minutes. We welcome your participation. We did invite congressman joe walsh. He was unable to join us. You have got to look at everything in the budget. But suppose there was a Preventative Health carebut supa Preventative Health care program that avoided bad outcomes and save money. You might want to multiply that by five because it such a good job third in the military, i do think there is room for saving money by Innovative Development of Weapons Systems and other ways to skin the cat. The military is there for more than one reason. Hitting a safe is reason number one. Keeping the lanes open for free trade is another important reason. This president seems to think that having allies to be helpful is something that is not worth his time. That is a mistake in Foreign Policy but it costs us money on the military budget. Fromlitary spending is up 550 billion to 700 billion this year alone. As we know, thats not the tradeoff in congress. The president is not telling the truth on three different from spirit it is the opposite of what he said he would do when he ran in clips like you just played. He said if you elect me, i will eliminate the debt. Instead, they have raised the debt by more than 9 trillion. The last two debt deals have military increases and domestic discretionary. The trade is on the republican side you get the military, and domestic discretionary on the democratic side. Either he profoundly did not understand the process, and or he has been disingenuous. Instead, they have raised the debt by more than 9 trillion. Haveast two debt deals military increases and domestic discretionary. The trade is on the republican side you get the military, and domestic discretionary on the democratic side. Either he profoundly did not understand the process, and or he has been disingenuous. Folks with promised the executive branch budgets is levels of growth that are wholly unrealistic. The committee for responsible federal government would say is it could not come true, and yet that is what they base their numbers on. It is the opposite of what he promised, at odds with what they budgeted, and at odds with the numbers examined by thirdparty groups. From cedart ron hill, texas. Good evening. Good evening. I have an undecided voter. I like the candidates you are talking to tonight. What can they offer to undecided voters and young people like me in order to implement change to the u. S. Economy, because i want toknow what they can do balance the budget. Thank you. Governor weld . Younger voters in particular need to understand there are two issues. One is the terrible deficit. Your generation will never see Social Security if we keep on with troy again dollar deficits. The other issue is Climate Change. The Younger Generation will reap storms, thed of the polarized cap melting, which will have a catastrophic effect for every country, including the u. S. With its long coastline. Those are both unfair to ers. Nnials and gen x i would say reality shows are great, you can watch them for an hour and then flip them off. Good 365 days a year. I say that because the wall street journal did in interesting write up a couple of weeks ago, and they editorialized on how theyre been a full percentage point policy in our economy based on what they called trade uncertainty. It is something we all know. For businesses to make an investment, there has to be some degree of certainty. We are going to take these different risk because this is the playing field. You have to give them rules to get invested in the process. What this white house is done is every day you have no idea what is coming next, so it has frozen investment. Let me ask you about the president. Of youeferred to the two human sucm. S at least he has is in the human category. Evidenceing out the amassed of the ukraine situation and the 10 examples of the criminal obstruction of justice in the Mueller Report constitute overwhelming grounds for this president to not only be impeached by the house, but removed by the senate. I have suggested that might be a great blessing and relief for this country and a good precedent, not a bad precedent. It might be viable in case we have another person coming along who is interested in coasting up to dictators and imposing thecratic principles on United States of america and undermining of democratic institutions. We can say, no, there are ground rules, limitations on what the executive can do. You are guided bypass principles diminish you have to what you do. Do you want to respond to his use of the word humans scum . , the says something crazy media and opponents react. Up,spend a week spinning it he is the center of attention. The next week, he says something even crazier and it is a new spin cycle. , as im out on the road and i look at what is happening in washington, d. C. , i think it is important we react less to some of the crazy things he says. Lets go to lenny from indiana, you are on the air. Good evening. Good evening. How are you . Fine, thank you. I hope one of these guys makes it onto the ticket and wins the republican primary, because if trump is on the ticket again, i will vote democrat this year. Mark wasr to what saying, i dont think we can let mr. Trump get away with his craziness by saying he dominated the new cycle, now we have to lower our voices so it wont be so stormy and awful all the time. American people are exhausted. They dont even want to hear about mr. Trump. I think we have to give as good as we get. He likes being the center of ofention, but after a couple months of the impeachable conduct that i referred to, exactly what the framers of the constitution were afraid of, after a couple of months of that being front and center every day, maybe he wont enjoy being the center of attention quite so much, and we have to be prepared to play that game, returning in kind. Jack is on the phone from north agosta, good evening. Good evening. I want to talk about the state republican parties canceling their caucuses, especially governor sanford on being sued because of the cancellation of the primary. Thank you, sir. I think it is unfortunate, wrong, antidemocratic. South carolina has enjoyed historically disproportionate influence as a consequence of being first in the south. The powers that be decided to take that away, and again, it is a mistake for the voters come from the standpoint of electoral odds, but it is telling, saying someone in the Trump Organization is looking at numbers they dont like. If you have a chance to pick up ine, your 90 chance w do it all day long. The fact they are pulling it off the table, somebody is looking at the number saying his supporters are milewide mud but may be an inch deep. Why do you weld, want to be president . I have spent a great deal of time in and around the oval office under bush president s and content clinton. There are things that need to be the on the fiscal front, on environmental and Climate Change front. The paralysis between the toties is paying attention the coming loss of 15 or 20 of jobs in the United States, owing to the confluence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and driverless cars. That is going to happen 10 years from today, and you might think of the displaced workers as trump voters. No one is thinking about them, how to give them the training and Technical Skills to get the replacement jobs which will be higher wage jobs. The cost to give him that at a Community College level or online Distance Learning courses would be one third of 1 of estates budget. Ors,ern both been and you can make policy choices based on what you think are emergency choices for your state. If youre losing 10 of jobs, guess what . Emergency, so you just allocate that money there. You can find that money, crisis avoided. No one in washington is talking about that, you know why . Because it doesnt work. Governor sanford, same question . We may be living the 1920s all over again, and we know what followed, yet it is not being discussed, talked about. Bill and i may be political opponents, but we are not foes. We have to have more of that in politics, where we disagree, but say no matter where we are, we would be better off with one of the two of us then we are with this president. I am focused on four things that need to change with this administration. One is the focus on spending. Ending the American Dream with the trend. Inward. To be looking i think where trump is taking us is a job killer. I think we need a robust conversation about political norms and institutions. I think the president is taking us in the wrong direction. When he goes Jerome Powell is an enemy of the state, you are doing destruction to the shock absorbers of what the Founding Fathers created in balancing holdsit is the glue that the country together, a nation of laws, not men. Finally, we have to change tone in the white house. What he is doing is destructive, pulling people apart, and if her going to survive his republic, we have to get back to get together. Good evening, jeff. Good evening. You,estion for the two of being a trump supporter planning, what are you on doing about immigration and the border wall and would you continue what trump is doing currently . We begin with governor sanford. A wall. Ed to support voted to support a secure border. You cant have a porous border and have rule of law. When you look back at the reagan firstthey allowed amnesty with the promise of security later. Security never came in amnesty went through and break and described it as one of his biggest regrets. Theme,r continuing the some of the implementation i disagree with. I have the votes to support that. Governor weld . We dont want a porous border on our southern border. What we need is not a 220mile people, moret more judges, more border agents, more drones so they cap come over undetected, and that would stem the flow. That is a realistic way of addressing that, and cheaper than the wall the president harks on. Platforme his oneword for Climate Change, hoax. Toee why it is appealing people who have this vague sense that people might be coming into take their jobs and harass their wives, and the president stokes that that. He started with muslims, then hispanics, any group that he can stigmatize to stir up resentment in the population, which he thinks served his political advantage. I probably know too much about how the business in the economy of this country work to i spent a lot of time in the country during the last cycle, in any governor texas west order to fully populate the industries in the western half the United States, you need that paper coming in, yes across the southern border, yes from el salvador, honduras, guatemala, mexico, but the economy of those would be harmed if you had an absolute closure of migration across the border. We need more work visas. Most of the people present trump says wants to be citizens tomorrow having not waited in line, they did not crawl across the border three months ago. They just overstay their visas. As soon as they overstay by one aliens,y are illegal conjuring up this threat where i do not believe it exists. We could look north. Canada has a robust guestworkers program that less people come work agriculture or construction during the season in canada. They send Financial Support back to the family south of the bor