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mar-a-lago back to the national archives. there was back and forth. this was in the summer of 2021. trump is meeting with people writing an autobiography for mark meadows. they are talking about a story that came out in the new yorker that susan glasser published. it was on general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. it was about his concerns in those waning days of the trump presidency that trump was going to take military action when it came to iran. what we're told is on this tape is trump discussing a documents that classified, that he says, if he could show i...

For us? >> this is not a win for the american people. republicans got nothing for this. the debt ceiling bill doesn't have a limit on the debt ceiling. we are signing into -- we'll be signing into law making it plain that the covid levels, the highest spending level in this country, we're signing that into law to say it's baseline spending going forward. the work requirements you mentioned, found out it expand government welfare, not shrink it. the irs stuff is $1.4 billion, that's nothing. i read this bill. i read it multiple times. it's not the spending cut bill we were promised or that is b...

Republican because where the president started and where he is today and miles apart there are a great checklist of things that other republicans can be happy with. one another thing, i've heard concerns from the people in the senate about what was going to happen with defense spending and because of the increase in the baseline spending in december. i think they can live with it and it will get a lot of votes. >> progressives think they got sold down the river. >> social security, medicaid, medicare all staying safe and not being touched at all. i think the republicans' obsession to poor peop...

Had we just grown spending by population growth and inflation we would have .5.1. we're that close to balancing the budget. but the pandemic blew a hole in the federal budget. we spent well over $6 trillion and the baseline spending is somewhere around $6 trillion. a trillion half more than we spent prior to the pandemic. there ought to be all kinds of cuts. we ought to return to that baseline and we ought to pass a budget. if we can't balance it, if we have to increase the debt ceiling, use the debt ceiling as it was intended to be used, attached to it fiscal controls. things like preventing ...