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I go grocery shopping. how much can you get for $29 a week? if they're cutting it by billions with a b, how much can we go further in this? >> i'll tell you. usda explained this. the way they're going to do it, currently under the snap program, consumers are buying products by retail. now the government will be able to buy products wholesale and realize tremendous cost savings. this is the product -- this is what you get by having a ceo of president of the united states. this is bold, it's innovative -- >> and you get fewer choices and government run. that's what the -- >> people are complaini...

Relief but you wanted some cuts with it. why should hurricane relief for harvey, irma, maria, now nate be handled the same way? >> we're not there yet. keep in mind there are a couple different ways we address disaster relief funding in this country, and right now we're sort of in the emergency, making sure people have drinking water and electricity -- >> that's another thing that's changed for you since being a congressman? >> no, because the fight we had in congress, i think it was in 2012, i lose track of the years -- >> sandy. >> -- sandy, yeah, that was the area that people wanted to rebu...

Natural disaster in times of crisis, which we know that's going on now. up to 35% of children miss out completely on an education. >> the impact of not being in school is devastating on a child's ability to earn and income down the road. which in turn negatively impacts communities and nations. every year a child stays in school her earning power increases by 10%. so the economic impact of 250 million children not getting a bake education is equivalent to losing $129 billion a year. >> too many. but there is hope. the global partnership for education works to make sure the world's poorest coun...

Arizona's john mccain and alaska's lisa murkowski. both said no in july, killing that health care reform effort. we expect a hearing will be held in the finance committee on monday. there has been talk about tweaking the bill to deal within unique aspects of alaska to get lisa murkowski on board. dianne feinstein tweeted this morning "california is the biggest loser if graham cassidy passes a 13% cuts to federal funds amounts to a $129 billion loss by 2026. another critic accuse the g.o.p. of having the wrong priorities. >> many of my republican colleagues want to substantially increase milita...

Western europe faces a threat from isis. this is going to require american leadership to stop isis, whether we like to talk about it or not. >> mr. trump is not only critical of the obama administration but also saudi arabia. he says they make $1 billion a day and we get nothing and take a look at this. i mean, they have 227,000 troops, 600 tanks, 313 fighter jets. the defense spending, number three. the u.s. is at 581 billion and china 129 billion and saudi arabia, they are the number three at 88.8 billion, ahead of putin's russia. that's unbelievable. why won't they step up and join this fig...