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gripping a huge part of the country right now. hot and hotter. that's what the national weather service says that we can expect for the next several days, and you need it know this. at least 16 states under heat advisories or warnings today. adding to the misery, nearly 2 million people without electricity in the d.c. area and surrounding states. deadly storms battered that area over the weekend killing at least 16 people. our brian todd is outside in that heat in the d.c. suburb of wheaton, maryland. brian, what's the biggest problems you're seeing right now? >> reporter: right now ...

>> what does that even mean? i mean, shouldn't it be fair for all americans? the baseline thing is that when bill clinton left the office, the budget was $1.8 trillion. barack obama's first budget was $3.6 trillion. the guy in between hiked the budgets up. george w. bush, we doubled the cost of the federal government. and the question is, how are you going to justify that is the ultimate thing. >> okay. the joint committee here from the tax policy center, this is the graph right here, revenue raisers. look very closely here at the buffett rule, $265 million over the course of ten years. >> yea...

>> who cares. when you get out of the chair and walk to the door you have to start somewhere. every bit counts. i took three trillion steps that you didn't take to identify how to deal with the debt problem. >> that's not the reason. i can give you reasons to deal with that. yes, raise taxes and you can cut spinding automatically. if i were president and i said to everybody. take a 10 percent cut off of the top. i don't care how you get there, do it. >> i want to bring in john layfield again. i want to go back to his point. i agree with you. that the states who are about to get socked with oba...