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>> very responsible. >> two or three years ago, they sued us to stop doing it in new york city. okay? i rest my case. thank you. >> thank you. very much. >> you look at medicare, you look at the long-term costs on medicaid, obesity and what it causes in diabetes, heart disease. >> yes. that's why we'll win the soda portion. >> it cost the united states' taxpayer billions of dollars. >> incredible. >> mr. mayor, thank you so much. how's your golf game? >> some days good, some days bad. that's what golf's about. >> thank you, mr. mayor. still ahead, the author of the best-selling book "the big...
Know what, all those programs that you love, all those programs that we get to send back to our districts, we can't have them anymore. we can't afford them. >> our constitutional responsibility under article 1, section 9, is congress, the senate and the house, are supposed to be doing the authorizing and the appropriating. if you say that you want to eliminate earmarks, that means we see the authority -- creed that authority to the president. yeah, we have a lot of things we want. i'm for a lot of the eda programs, we need to do something about infrastructure in america. i'm the one who put th...