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Thought but it's politics. >> neil: why don't you give this law time to work? you're not being fair. >> we waited on the mark-to-market to work. >> neil: you got me on that one. dave ramsey. good seeing you, my friend. hit radio host, bestselling author. >> bail out the banks, taxpayer bucks out of the country and the tarp bill that has our judge ticked. >> i don't like when congress gives a blank check to the treasury department and says spend it how you want. the constitution doesn't like it. the constitution retires for the feds to spend any money it must be specific. when they gave tim gei...

In the house. the other thing is disaster funding. $81 billion package that moved through the house of representatives right before they went on recess. it did not move through the senate. they need to fix that in the senate and send it back to the house. this deals with wildfires in california, hurricanes. >> doug: all the talk about the deficit increasing. >> people are saying we are back to this crisis again. charlie dent, republican congressman from pennsylvania, says we always have this trauma and chaos. the reason people are reluctant to vote for the 81 billion, especially among conserva...

Insurance? because donald trump said -- >> it's going to be loving it. >> there will be more people will have coverage, it will cost less, how much, how much? >> over a ten-year period, the legislation would redo you us the deficit by at least $133 billion. while people with comprehensive high cost medical events would be reduced by millions. protestors disrupted a hearing of the senate finance committee chanting against cuts to medicaid, whose enrollment would be substantially lower according to deductions in the cbo projections. >> were i a cynical man, which i'm not. >> of course not. >> wh...

Period. that is something democrats are also seizing on, very protective of the medicaid program. there is a definite positive bit of news in this program or in this report for senate leaders and that is on deficit reduction. $321 billion in reduction over the course of a ten-year period. here's why that matters. obviously republicans want to reduce the deficit. on the top line it's a positive number. it is also a positive number, wolf, when you talk about what republican leaders are trying to do now. based on the senate rules they need to match house spending over the course of a ten-year per...

Period. now, you noted the deficit reduction. $321 billion in deficit reduction in this bill. why does that matter? the house bill has a baseline of $133 billion. that means the senate at least has to match that. so, they've obviously matched that, and they have about $200 billion to work with. that matters, because when you look at moderates who are concerned about how deeply this bill cuts back spending on things like medicaid, mitch mcconnell has a pot of money to work with to win some of those moderate senators over. as is always the case here, there's a push and a pull. if you spend some ...