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Happy birthday, john. >> thank you. >> you woke up and said the one thing i want to spend my birthday is "fox & friends." >> absolutely. >> you cut the budget on your birthday, by the way. >> thank you. that's a gift. >> speaking of what do you think of the new proposal here, the road? >> for you old people out there to explain the fallon joke, they don't know what a road map is and don't know what jobs are. but look, we're going broke. and they're going to argue about should we spend 6% more or 7% more? this is 6.8% more. inflation is 2%. can't they just limit it to the size of inflation? no....

Let that be known. it's not happening. >> all right. so, cutting spending is not happening. watching where all this is going down, michael? >> the budget blueprint has taken a lot of heat because it's seen as not making the tough choices about the major drivers of our debt. it's a $3.9 trillion plan laying out the president's priorities. it includes spending $302 billion on highways and railroads and mass transit. it provides more money for job training and preschool and it expands tax credits for an estimated 13.5 million low-income workers and it increases taxes more than $650 billion on hig...

Spending $302 billion to repair the nation's roads and bridges, and closing the $4 billion worth of fossil fuel loopholes every year. the proposal includes an idea with historically bipartisan support. it's little known but highly effective tax rebate for the poor, earned income tax credit. yesterday in a 200-plus page report in the failures on poverty, budget chair paul ryan wrote, research finds that the best anti-poverty programs encourage work, programs like the earned income tax credit increase labor force participation. the president likes the earned income tax credit and paul ryan likes...

And that's not even the hidden dangers that tom costello was report on with the bridges. will congress act? >> well, i certainly hope so. i mean, we have to reauthorize the surface transportation bill that expires in september. but the challenge is going to be finding a funding source that's going to give us the revenue that we need to invest in our infrastructure. and the highway trust fund is going to be essentially insolvent by the end of this summer. and simply, the motor fuels tax doesn't bring in as much revenue as we need to make the kind of investment in improving our infrastructure th...

The president did not talk health care, and increasingly touchy subject for senate democrats trying to hold on to their majority this fall. back here in washington, the top democrat decided to confront obamacare head on, and it did not go well. here is chief white house correspondent ed henry. >> while control of the senate will be decided in several red states where democrats are vulnerable, president obama today visited the safely blue state of minnesota, pushing to spend more taxpayer dollars, $302 billion, to be precise, to rebuild america's roads and bridges. >> these are competitive gran...