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Administratio administrations. we gave the bush administration balanced budgets and we were paying down long-term debt. until prsh, he not only pushed us into this growing deficits, because the wars were not paid for, but he basically gave the public treasury to wall street. if you look at the tax cuts he enacted which didn't produce job growth in this country, over a trillion of public money is going into the pockets of the wealthiest people in this country when the middle class and working class are getting gouged. i think you have to look at what's on the table, and only 12% is even being t...

You guys, from that administratio administration at that time that it was so controversial -- >> what was contentious? >> it decisions that you took collectively? >> they're tough decisions, you bet. >> because they were so polarizing these decisions, that inevitably there's been an extended blame game ever since? >> i don't think there has been. >> but there has, hasn't there? >> no. >> you don't think so? >> not too much, no. compared to other administrations? >> you're in public life a heck of a long time before iraq came along, for example. >> right. >> part of -- it comes off a little bit...

I think the united states and president obama have done a good job of managing that. getting the military to help in egypt. controlling the initial violence of the feel in behrain, and this is a strong, but not over the top response from the administratio administration. >> listen to what he said today. it is amazing when you think about his long standing relationship with the united states and all the help the u.s. has given his government, his regime in yemen. listen to this. loet no one lie to another every day we hear obama's statements. egypt, don't do this. tunisia, don't do that. it is ...

They were trying to figure out a way to explain it because they knew, since hillary didn't win, now it was going to come out and theyey needed a story. obama knew all about this. the notion that he didn't is ludicrous. >> tucker: it's shocking to me that nobody sees this as a terrifying precedent going forward, that one administratio administration, suspicious of its political opponents, would use our most powerful law enforcement agency to gather information on them. do we want that to be the president? >> we do not. what's tragic, and the course of doing that, they destroyed the fbi. it will...

Said would happen. that's the way it's happened. >> behind the scenes, urgent meetings with defense secretary james mattis, joe dunford, and other members of his national security team deciding how to respond to last weekend suspected chemical weapons attack in syria. >> we are having a meeting today on syria. we are having a number of meetings today. we'll see what happens. we're looking at it very closel closely. i will be leaving here. i was there. now i will be going back as soon as this meeting is over. we are looking seriously, closely at the situation, and we will see what happens, folk...