Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180507:15:52:00
A percentage of what we call discretionary spending? that is appropriations, what they'll be reducing. this is not significant. this is not the kind of things markets would notice or the bond market would cheer. it's a publicity stunt. it's too small to make much of a difference. you raised the right point, which is the right time to have done this would have been when the president signed the bill. that is he should have said no, i'm not going to sign it, let's renegotiate. he didn't do that. he approved it. let's move on. >> go through the technical side of this. the president is reportedly ...