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Reducing the burden of washington on the american taxpayer. david: sabrina, what do you think? >> i'm in complete agreement with john here. the economy has been chugging along the last eight years, it's a massive energy drain in the form of lower regulations and lower taxes. it seems like a complete no-brainer, when i get that tax break it's not going under my pillow, it's going into the economy to grow companies and grow jobs and make things better for americans. this sort of seems ridiculous that we would be talking about it as a budget issue. david: but we are, steve. the point is you would...

That during last year. >> explicitly. >> yes. and name checked paul ryan, said we're not doing that. what paul ryan knows and it's been the argument that a lot of raspberry have espoused until now, you can't get a handle on the budget issue, you can't tamp down on spending unless you attack those drivers of spending and while it's politically difficult, that republicans have to band together and do that. we're not going to hear that from the president and i think paul ryan is looking for a sill -- silver lining. >> so, jenna, is this paul ryan coming to grips with the reality of the person in ...

Order to have them removed and get the process through in a way that keeps america safe. legal immigration obviously is a completely separate subject. that includes visa reform and all of the other stuff. the president has talked about that with business leaders, visa holders, et cetera, you will see more of that coming, but there is a prioritization of how we deal with immigration both illegal and legal and we have more on that. i have to run, thank you very much, we will see you tomorrow, take care. >> jon: always entertaining television there, sean spicer, the president's spokesman talks ab...

Obviously something is going on with him. >> could that have to do that -- and again i don't know the full story but they did not call for additional backup, that is a resource issue? maybe it's a budget issue or just bad training? >> we're just hearing too many of these stories. you talk about a resource issue, think about the millions of dollars paid in these civil lawsuits. there is a $25 million lawsuit pending. that is the number contained in the complaint. we don't know if a jury will reach a verdict in favor of the family or how much nay will award. but across the country hundreds of mi...

At this point you've got to say there's a three out of four chance that the government will shut down. and it's only because we've added this politically toxic take no prisoners, highly emotional issue like planned parenthood. you can't compromise on this one. this is a binary. it's either yes or no. if it was a budget issue, you could compromise somewhere in between, but you can't do that with planned parenthood. shutting down the government over it really makes very little sense. >> this is what jeb bush said about this in iowa today. >> i defunded planned parenthood when i was governor. i -...