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Helps him. you'd be wildly wealthy, too, if i gave you $400 million. the times got it right. here is what can be said with certainty. had mr. trump done nothing but invest the money his father gave him an index fund that tracks the s&p 500, he would be worth $1.96 billion today. now, he says he's worth 10. you heard stephen moore echo that. moore doesn't know that any more than trump does. no credible source can get to half that. i investigated his net worth many years ago with an excellent team at abc news, and his numbers were grossly exaggerated and he would show no real proof. and then we ...

>> they will go out and say publicly they did not say that. let's talk about -- there's a lot of distractions. a lot of big news about the way this white house is operating from a purely functional standpoint within the west wing. at the same time they are getting lot of their agenda done behind the scenes. jeff sessions is planning another immigration crackdown. he's weighing in investigation to social media companies. the cbo announced the government spent $896 billion more than than it took in. betsy devos is float changes to title ix rules. they are doing things despite all this internal d...

Irresponsibility of congrespend money we don't have. the bill's going to exceed the budget caps by $296 billion. and that's not counting the money they don't count. these people are really, really clever. imagine them running their fingers together and saying how can we hide stuff from the american people, how can we evade the spending caps so we can be even more irresponsible than we appear? so 296 is the official number. about $300 billion over two years that will be in excess of the budget caps. but there's another $160 billion that's stuck into something called an overseas contingency fund...

That's .01% of the defense department's $696 billion proposed budget for 2018. let's compare that to some of the department's other expenses. one single apache helicopter, 31 million bucks. 11,000 m-27 riflz -- >> the military spends $42 million spent on viagra alone, according to the military times and according to the government accountability office, each time the president travels to mar-a-lago the government shells out $3.6 million. if you just look at at the high end of what a year transgender medical services would cost that $8.4 million number, that's at least two trips, just two trips...

>> in the headlines this week, the national defense authorization act of a $696 billion budget, 18 million more than the president asked for. the president has gone through committees and will be voted on in the near future. the two versions will have to be reconciled. turning to break it down, military analyst, jack king. i appreciate you coming on here. one of the reasons you and i were talking is that for so long you have been using the term readiness, military readiness in a lot of our conversations. we talk about conflicts here and abroad. were you pleased with the news this week? the two...