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♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 6:00 a.m. here in new york city on a beautiful memorial day weekend, and i'm so happy to be joined by my friends will cain and joey jones. good morning. will: good morning. that was the navy's national anthem -- the national anthem performed by the navy's northeast ceremonial band, they were with us yesterday -- rachel: they were so good, we had to keep them. joey: it was the navy's national anthem, it's everybody's national anthem -- the. [laughter] rachel: air force and america. yeah. so it's great to be back, and ...

Republicans did seem to win on many of hair talking points. i think for those that dissent, congressman dan bishop, senator mike lee who said, you know, a winning strategy is not punting when you're sitting on your opponent's 1-yard line. you don't punt at the 1-yard line, that's not how you win. the implication republicans do have the leverage because they control the house, and joe biden would take the blame for a failure on the debt ceiling. he needs a deal. and in that context, $1.9 billion on the irs funding isn't much when the democrats get $781 billion to fund this -- 78.1 billion. i wi...

Billion. we still don't know how much damage irma will leave behind. rene marsh joins me. and it seems like at this rate, fema will be completely drained when this strikes. >> they have to figure out the whole funding thing, and as i speak to you, i can tell you fema is dangerously close of running out of money. fema had just over $1 billion with $541 million of that, as they say, for immediate use, and that was as of tuesday morning. on wednesday, that's today, the house did approve a $781 billion relief aid package, but now the senate has it and it's gotten political at this point because it...

>> greg is picking on big government and i know it is part of his mantra and he does it every day. but do you not want to pay national debt and defense, social security, kplar, how about border security or the people that do air traffic control. >> it is about choices. >> but you are down to a small percentage of the government. >> i would rather expand on the benefits than illegal immigrants getting tax credits. >> but such a small part of this. >> but i'm looking at the numbers here, social security, $781 billion, department of health and human services, $860. there has to be fat and fraud t...

Steps towards solving our long term debt problem if we will find the increase. >> there is bipartisan opposition in the senate to raising the debt ceiling unless we do something significant about the debt. >> that was now but boehner was not so concerned when a republican was sitting in the oval office. the current gop leadership voted to raise the debt ceiling every single time during the bush years. the next year they approved a $900 billion increase, a vote that came the same week that president bush approved tax cuts that cost $350 billion. so they didn't mind borrowing from china when it ...