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Donald trump was there. this is very important. we're talking about billions of dollars here, one of the promises he made is that soon the navy is going to be the largest that it's been and said you got to get a good deal, same boats or planes for less money. but he's standing on an aircraft carrier that's a budget buster. >> absolutely. not only is it a budget buster but also delayed multiple times because of equipment issues and other issues that deal with the acquisition process, so one of the things he really should do is actually reform the acquisition process within the pentagon and that...

Is it going to be offset by massive cuts. you heard what steven just said, do you think this plan is realistic? >> no, of course not. all we're missing is a call to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, and we'll pay for his programs with that. i would note that this budget is not a real budget, and that they're just putting magic asterisks in for the tax plan for the repealing of obama care. they're not even trying to get the numbers to add up. i think this is more of a political document. and that's okay. the budget comes out of congress. so the presidential guj ets are always more of a messagin...

Designers of obama care said as much. if you don't do anything it will collapse on its own. it's going to collapse on its own. >> even the democratic senator that designed it is saying if we do nothing it will collapse. >> it will. it's just a fact. i agree with you. they should go for things conference wants to do, republican conference wants to pass tax reform. they want to help businesses, but doesn't seem like they are on the track to do that. looks like they are still going to be mired in health care. >> budget agreement. >> need a budget agreement. that's not going to happen realisticall...

Years by ventures in the middle east, for example, there seems to be a contradiction. >> there is a contradiction. there was a contradiction on this in the campaign. he definitely was much more nationalistic than any republican we've seen in recent history, saying we can't just go fight every fight overseas. but at the same time he did campaign hard on the idea of giving more help to the military, which he would say over and over again they've been slashed and gutted with regard to their money that they have. so, it is sort of an inherent contradiction. at the same time, you have republicans l...

Of the budget committee, controlled by your party, you put out a budget document and you said over and over again that you favored block granting medicaid. in fact, your budget in 2017, that you were the chairman of, that you want to run away from today as if it never happened, and that's what i can't figure out why. you're going to be influential, what you really believe matters. you want to run away from that. you cut medicaid by $1 trillion in your 2017 budget. and yet today, you want to stand on some notion that, well, whatever you guys do is fine. and that's just not reality. congressman,...