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One, jeff flake, what are you looking for during this lunch? >> yeah, i mean, how much the president can stay disciplined on tax reform because that is the ball that seems like could go double the field for him if he gets distracted on health care, if he gets, you know, pulled back in on defending himself on puerto rico and getting in the ground work. also, his own conduct over the las week, you know, around the gold star family and deaths in niger, to what extent he's pulled into that. clearly i think the white house wants him to stay focussed on tax reform because they think they have an ope...

Sure that they are going to be policy wonks about this document that doesn't even become law. >> abby, two people who are deeply involved in the budget process, mick mulvaney, a freedom caucus republican congressman and paul ryan, speaker of the house, they would love a budget that reforms medicare and medicaid and social security, but the president no interest in it. >> and what you're seeing sheer what we often see with this white house is their reverse engineering policy from the president's statements. they have to start from wherever he started with a policy that was set forth without hav...

President shifting from his america first policy to the u.s. being the world's policeman? >> well no. america first means protect america first and the president was pretty clear in the campaign that's what he was going to do. you know, i think one of the things he didn't really talk about much as an issue in the 2016 campaign was defense of national security. it was a huge issue. a lot focused on the iran deal, but the voters were saying they're tired of a weak foreign policy, lead from behind policy, that president obama had put forth and that hillary clinton was also a part of, and so presi...

To be madness giving how it will savage aspects of the new york city budget. surely, and in that budget document, donald trump's knowledge of what was in it has to be quite minimal. and the idea that it could in any way from affected the nypd probably never crossed his mind. >> no, he has no experience with something like a federal budget. gosh, you just had steve on here, i remember this from back in the reagan era. this stuff is hard to read and we have no indication that he does read. he has written more books than he has red. >> pj o'rourke. "how the hell did this happen?" and the question...

News, i have been showing this cover, declares the trump budget to be madness giving how it will savage aspects of the new york city budget. surely, and in that budget document, donald trump's knowledge of what was in it has to be quite minimal. and the idea that it could in any way from affected the nypd probably never crossed his mind. >> no, he has no experience with something like a federal budget. gosh, you just had steve on here, i remember this from back in the reagan era. this stuff is hard to read and we have no indication that he does read. he has written more books than he has red. ...