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Years his economic legacy on taxes, banking and trade reverberate today. joining me, bruce bartlet. thank you for being on the show today on what i know is an emotional day and difficult day for so many who worked with the former president. >> that's right. but let's face it. he lived a long life. a very full life. and it's not so much a tragedy that he's died as an opportunity to celebrate his life. >> so let's talk about his life. and let's talk about his life as it relates to him being in the white house, talking about economic policy. as we mentioned, "the wall street journal" talks about ...

They're going to try to cut entitlements. and when it becomes how obvious it is unpopular, they're going to try blame it on democrats. you've seen them in the midterm elections here about health care and obamacare. the republicans trying to claim that they're the ones trying to protect the ban on using preexisting conditions, and that they're trying to extend health care to all americans when they have actually been trying to repeal obamacare and get rid of those. >> guys, thanks for helping me analyze this. austin goolsbee, bruce bart let. coming up next, president trump is on a swing of wi...

Made before. congress knocked off more than a trillion dollars worth of forecasted tax revenue and boosted government spending at the same time. it stands in stark contrast to the promises from trump officials and from congressional republicans before the tax cuts passed. >> not only will this tax plan pay for itself, but it will pay down debt. >> i'm confident this is not only revenue neutral to the government, but actually is very likely to be a revenue producer. >> we're right there in the sweet spot with economic growth it gives us more revenue, we're where we need to be. >> the problem ma...

Was attacking spending, this is what paul ryan and mitch mcconnell had to say about it then, bruce. listen to this. >> he doubles the debt after his term in office and triples it by the end of his budget. he sends our debt on an upward trajectory that is completely unsustainable. >> what's reckless, bob, is the $1.6 trillion deficit we're running this year. >> now, bruce, the reason i bring this up is because we have all argued, maybe you've never been on the side of the argument that said deficits are a good thing. we've seen deficits following every war that we've been in in america, and som...

Up the deficit. they've already proposed what they're calling tax reform 2.0, which is another multi trillion dollar tax cut for high-income people in big corporations. and the second thing you're going to see start to happen is they're going to try to cut entitlements. and when it becomes how obvious it is unpopular, they're going to try blame it on democrats. you've seen them in the midterm elections here about health care and obamacare. the republicans trying to claim that they're the ones trying to protect the ban on using preexisting conditions, and that they're trying to extend health ca...