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Spending under president obama. this is not that below what president trump is spending. then it goes down in 14, 15, 16, 17, and then it starts to go back up. what happened there? after the tea party election in 2010 and the republicans took over, the republicans back in a time when republicans cared about deficits, remember back then? they were pushing the president to bring the deficit under control. they came up with a so-called sequester. the budget control. this was a bipartisan agreement and yes, defense spending went down a little bit and started to come back up. it's not just obama. >...

>> sorry to say, but it is. the irony of this too is republicans are the party of cutting deficits and budget control. >> they were. >> and that's not what's happening in this particular case. >> thank you very much. remember that, when republicans were prided themselves on being deficit hawks. >> and now you're hearing it from the deficits, why? because that's what you do when you play to advantage. cnn "newsroom" with john berman picks up right after this break. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gi...

Downs of the authorization act, all the budget control act maneuvering, are you confident by the end of the year the budget control will be no more. >> i certainly hope so, hugh. this is the single most important thing we can do for our military, eliminate the sequester for defense spending. this sequester is automatic spending cuts. if spending exceeds caps that were eupl monthsed six years ago. the budget control act is not the constitution. the congress is not the constitutional convention. we should not allow our hands to be tied by something they passed in 2011 in a vastly different circu...

Budget control acted. he campaigned on a border fence. he's going to get that or the government is going to shut down. and on a big tax cut. and he's going to get that. so there's a potential that september could be very good for the coalition government for both halves of it. >> really quickly, and i've only got 15 seconds for you both. do you think, and let's put this in context. we had two -- three terror attacks in two different countries or potentially one in finland. the president is talking about the longest war right now in american history, the kkk and white supremacists have been wal...

Republicans used both the debt ceiling and the government shutdown as leverage to force spending agreement. that would give a couple weeks to hammer out an agreement. here's ryan talking to supporters yesterday. >> most budget increases in the past have involved budget increases. we believe that mechanism, just like the budget control that the president sign brd. >> president met with members of the financial services roundtable. including the ceos of goldman sachs and bank of america, and both of them warned against flirting with a possible default, trace. >> wendell goler at the white house....