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>> did you see the budget was just introduced? it cuts -- it cuts $845 billion, almost a trillion-dollar cut, in medicare. and almost a quarter trillion, $240 billion cut in medicaid. why? because of a tax cut for the super wealthy that created a deficit of $1.9 trillion, and now they got to go make somebody pay for it. >> so he doesn't sound unlike the other democratic candidates who are considerably more progressive than he is, but is that message that he's sending there to those union voters, those firefighters, going to resonate more because it's coming from working-class joe biden, who ha...

Him and he said i'm thinking about pardoning him. you were in the case, you heard all the evidence, what do you think? >> i would say, president trump, that's a big mistake our a huge mistake as he would say. that would send a bad message to other people, and it would make president trump look bad, too. paul manafort needs to pay the price for what he did. >> in what would be the biggest policy reversal for any president not named trump, today the trump administration released president trump's new budget for the coming fiscal year. it is a budget that would increase funding for the trump bord...

The trump administration released president trump's new budget for the coming fiscal year. it is a budget that would increase funding for the trump border wall and take the money for the wall from medicare. the only republican president who ever promised to never cut medicare completely reversed himself today. "the washington post" reports that in the president's budget proposal total spending on medicare would be reduced by roughly $845 billion over ten years. some of those savings would be redirected to other health programs, but most would be completely cut from the budget. in the 2016 pres...

Submitting this request to congress is like having a job and asking your boss for a raise. and the president shows that he cares about building the wall, defense spending, and less about funding domestic nondefense programs. in this way she a small government republican. he is talking about cuts to epa, the state department, the transportation department, and the department of justice. he said he would protect medicare. this budget calls for an $845 billion to medicare.

$845 billion cut to medicare. that is completely contrary to the president's repeated 2016 campaign pledge not to cut these programs. previously going as far to say the first and only potential gop candidate to subjeggest there w be no cuts. they also cut the environmental protection agency. the state department, and health and human services department. joining me now jeff bent, garrett haake, and peter baker. jeff as a document of presidential priorities. talk to us about what this tells us and what did we hear frankly at that briefing that's a headline. >> a white house budget is a little m...