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He's going to be identitied. there are discussions of people who might be credible replace manies. >> let's switch gears for a moment, steve. i want to ask you about fiscal policy if i can. the republican party really has been at least in some analysis, shifting away from a party that was once based on a principal of eliminating the deaf sificit. do you expect to hear more from people like rand paul or are they too outnumbered to have an impact when you see how much the republican party is spending, whether it's a potential infrastructure bill or even the budget increase by $300 billion? >> my...

Analyst general always a pleasure good to see you sir. >> great to be here maria. maria: we talked a lot about these budget requirements and what needed to be done, going into this budget deal. your thoughts on what we just saw? >> well this is very significant , so i already understand we have not had a budget increase like this in defense spending since the early years of the reagan administration in the 1980s. that is how significant this is. in 2018, the plus up from the ceiling on the budget caps is $80 billion over what that budget cap was, and now, we can begin to make a down payment on...

Virginia is not growing. and that growth supports the government jobs of northern virginia. so they don't know that it's coming to an end, unless you get growth. and finally, we're doing tax cuts and the democrats and the progressive budget increase taxes 10 trillion. we forgot to tell them that. so the democrats did a good job of nationalizing the election -- >> i'm not sure your numbers are right on the growth in virginia. i think it may be on a slight downti down-tick, but it's overall -- >> no, look it up. >> but it's got less unemployment than the vast majority of the states in our union....

I think he was a fair guy. >> i asked him for a budget increase and he gave me half of it, i think. but he was a man of stature and he was -- because of his hollywood persona, there was a certain distance. but a certain kind of iconic john wayne ora to him and he never lost that. >> and i see on the walls here are photos of jack kennedy and your dad? >> yeah. mr. kennedy came out here in '59 as a senator asking for my father's help when he ran for president. that was interesting. although as it turned out the convention was a little more mixed. >> in los angeles. >> in los angeles, yes. >> now...

Assad's use of chemical weapons, let alone not pushing for assad to be forced out of power. so, you know, apart from what you just raised, christopher, which is basically a slap on the hand, a slap of assad's hand, what's russia's next move in this situation? >> so russia's not motivated by any deep love of assad. they don't have anything -- what they're seriously invested in in syria is a massive naval base that assad's allowed them to have in there in return for them having this military operation. also russia's military forces, they get a lot of fan play in american hollywood movies, but ou...