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Who caused john boehner and paul ryan the most amount of headaches as they tried to figure out, you know, how to -- we had divided government for quite some time as they tried to keep the government open, to actually keep the wheels of government moving even as these things were going on. and, you know, he marched a couple of months ago into the republican conference and was basically laughed at, you know, by members of his own republican conference because he was in there trying to convince them to blow through these budget caps that they had fought tooth and nail to secure and everybody just...

His life, he was looking at the longer term. he only agreed to do it if it included budget caps and what is called pay go, which would ensure that wouldn't be just a one-time event but it would carry on for a lifetime. to president clinton's credit, when he came in, he didn't tear up the agreement. he essentially embraced the bush fiscal policy and we were able to dig ourselves out of the hole during the decades of the 1990s and ultimately come to a balanced budget. >> bill clinton doesn't get that gift of a balanced budget without the math with the george h.w. bush reduction deal. appreciate ...

Of the pentagon say it provides the pentagon what it needs to deal with the threat from russi. >> after years of budget caps and more than 17 years of war, the $716 billion defense authorization bill was signed by the president today at fort drum, new york, home of the army's tenth mountain division. >> we will replace aging tanks, aging planes and ships with the most advanced and lethal technology ever developed and hopefully will be so strongly will never have to use it. but if we ever did, nobody has a chance. >> the increased funding sends a strong message and send to russia and china. >> ...

The defense authorization bill bearing john mccain's name. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. tell us about the bill, jennifer. >> shepard, what is interesting, we've had several years of budget cuts, budget caps. this defense bill does more than any other bill to reverse that. the president very proudly stated that he wants more planes, more ships. he's going to reverse the readiness problem that after 17 years of constant war has plagued the military. this is the earliest a president has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law since 1977. puts the trump administration on trac...

On your proposal to balance the budget in five years. does it have a chance of passing, senator? >> republicans say they are for balancing the budget. today is a litmus test. if your senator has been saying for a balanced budget, they ought to vote for it. we cut one penny out of every dollar. a very modest amount but republicans say they're for it. when people analyze the vote, many republicans will go home to their state and saying they're for balanced budget when an actual budget is presented to them they run for the halls. >> jon: the criticism is that in future years it is much more than ...