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is going to be able to pass a package for additional aid for israel and ukraine. >> congress has to decide whether to continue to support the fight for freedom. >> as the house pushes to formalize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. >> a loss of principle but a great recipe for democratic victories. ♪ good morning, everyone. i'm phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. new satellite images this morning show israeli forces pushing into southern gaza where united nations officials say the situation is apocalyptic with nowhere safe to go and civilian casualties rapidly...

>> yes. this is the holy grail. this is like the swimsuit model poster conservatives have on the back of the door. this is what we love. >> i would say more than conservatives like the model. >> budget wonks. you have tax cuts here. he embarked on tax reform. tax reform is different. tax reform means you are not blowing up the deficit for tax cuts. you are changing the way we do business. tax reform resulted in this. years of growth. this is what conservatives want to see. you hear them saying this. can you do this without blowing up the deficit? maybe you get your trumpian tax growth to pay f...

What. >> last night we failed them. we failed them on the infa stalk infrastructure infrastructure. who failed them? the engineer was going twice the speed limit. why aren't we talking about him? how did the infrastructure fail? >> as you know we have a tendency in washington in politics to drill down on very tiny changes. did jeb bush mean the that or say that or this? the president sexist when he referred to a senator by her first name. we spend days chewing on the differences and evaluating the language of individuals. today a lot of elected officials including the major of the largest city...

Joining us now is doug lulls holtz-aiken, the former director of the congressional budget office. also the chief economist of the president's council of the economic advisers until president george w. bush. >> great to be here. >> and budget season no less. >> the thought in washington. >> you wrote it's like the super bowl for budget wonks and those who love them. >> just besides myself. >> i feel like we're going to have differing viewpoints here. >> shocking. >> i feel like you are not a fan of the murray budget, but whether or not you like it, she does offer both spending cuts and revenue....

Night's vote, neither side was pushing #40dollars. so joining us now from washington to make sense of all this is msnbc policy analyst ezra klein of "the washington post." how are you doing, ezra? happy new year. >> good afternoon, thank you for joining me. >> i've been reading my blog, as, of course, everyone should do every day. one of the things that's interesting is everyone is asking is this a good deal, but i think just from reading your blog, it's different for different people. i want you to break it down for me a little bit. let's start with deficits. if you care about deficits, was t...