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His staff a little bit in front of a couple lawmakers. is this setting up a clear fight that doesn't necessarily have an end game given the stakes we're facing in september? >> i think that's right. inc. the president kno-- i thin the president needs to show his base something he has not accomplished. this is the central piece of his campaign. he needs to show them he's doing something. he doesn't know, the congress doesn't know, the democrats know they're not giving him anything for this. in his budget document, the president campaigned on a limited national debt. that is such an insane propo...

Democrats in control, really -- really matters less what the president is asking for. you know, when house republicans were in charge they could take the number that was requested by the president and put it it in their own budget and make tay fight. but democrats have said they're not even willing to entertain what the president is proposing right now. >> so what's the point, margaret? this is a nonstart we are congress. they've rejected this number already. why are we going through this exercise? >> you may have heard of something coming up, it's called the 2020 election. and so we're beginn...

Agency and moved to another. and the practice of transferring monies between agencies, that is not unusual in itself, but it is unusual to see in one of these documents a whole column full of money being deleted from the fema budget less than a year after hurricane maria on the cusp of this year's hurricane season. apparently to bolster the government's ability to lock up and deport immigrants. nearly $10 million taken out of fema. almost all of it going to i.c.e. in order to fund more detention beds and i.c.e.'s transportation and removal program. and this is all according to this budget docu...

Obama was the king of borrowing. and i'm not defending what republicans are doing here. i think a pox on both their houses. the other point is the tax cut is working. we're seeing a big increase in growth, we're seeing businesses come home. the new fed report says we might grow 5% this quarter. that never happened under obama. that kind of growth. look, it's all about jobs and the economy, getting it moving. i don't believe that more government spending is good for the economy, but i do think this tax cut is really ramping up growth. 78% of americans today rank the american economy as good or ...

American economy as good or great. that's an incredible change in two years. >> donald trump inherited the lowest, among the lowest unemployment rates of any president in the last century. >> that's true. >> so it's great that the economy continues to chug along. the growth rates assumed in this budget document, look at them, don. they're unbelievable. they're at least 50% higher than all the private sector forecasts. the rosy scenario times a million -- >> austin -- >> why dut medicare? >> you askedfy had anything to do with this budget. the only thing i preached to donald trump was, we can g...