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friends that we've talked with, is going to be going after him, ramping up the rhetoric. mika, joe, why this matters is that trump thinks that florida governor ron desantis is the republican who is most likely to go the distance. he can imagine the republican primary winding up as a two-person race. so he is trying to use his fear factor against desantis. of course, you well know a reason the opponents aren't attacking trump is they know he'll come at them. for desantis, trump will talk about his past, talk about cutting entitlements, medicare, social security, when he was a congressman. he'll talk about the loyalty he thinks that he should have for trump who was a big help in making him governor. trump has been truthing, as he calls tweeting on his platform, truth social, he's been talking
them on the floor of the house right in front of the american public, and i think important context there is also in addition to rick scott and mike lee there are a number of house republicans who have proposed cutting entitlements, and before speaker mccarthy said that that was off the table, he did tell punch bowl news last october he didn't want to pre-determine any type of potential cuts that we would want to make essentially leaving those on the table. >> all right. i thank you all for sticking with us. see you again next hour. >> thanks, guys. >> thanks so much. rescuers in turkey and syria are desperately listening for any signs of life under the rubble. the earthquake's death toll now tops 11,000. cnn will take you there next. ukraine's president meets with the british prime minister and king charles during a surprise visit to the uk.
trajectory. you'd have to cut about $7 trillion. that would wreck the economy. you can't do that. politically it's toxic. waste, fraud and abuse sounds great. why? members does like to talk about cutting entitlements. it's the third rail of american politics. >> neil: where do we go with this? i remember 2011. s&p down graded our debt not because we went to the brink but because we came close. they were not impressed that that was the performance of a triple a rated nation. they knocked us down a peg. we survived that. but it is proof that, you know, the world watches us. rating agencies are watching us. this might play out like all the others have, right? >> this is where i keep coming back to that five months. consider the s&p down graded the united states because of the trauma in that six or seven week period. and so let's say it's the middle of march. let's say it's the middle of
distancing herself from the clintons while trying to keep moving forward in a race where she fumbled because of naming victims of sexual assault, fired someone from her campaign. so it is local at the senate level but it is a different map, and on the issue of the economy, look, we saw democrats try to capitalize on this with the issue of national debt. $776 billion. that number is expected to go to a trillion dollars next year. republicans i talked to, including the senate majority leader are talking about cutting entitlements. that's something that i think you're seeing the democrats try to shift the conversation to in the closing home stretch of the midterm race. >> one other point on the border, after accusing the democrats wanting to open borders, the president wrote a tweet. if the democrats would stop being obstructionists and come together, we could write up and agree to new immigration laws in
22%. the white house defended the tax cuts which is boosting economic growth which will increase tax revenue. steve mnuchin said it will make up the difference. there are concerns from the left about cutting entitlements. that is one place to go. the big gap is interesting because under republican president and republican control of congress you have this spending deficit. >> you can't help if you wonder deficit concerns are gone. gone with paul ryan. >> there is a saying you fix the roof when it is sunny. deficits and spending. it is sunny and we're not fixing the roof. imagine this happening to your plane. renewed concern about drones after tests show the bigger
the government shut down, you know what investors do? maybe that's a good thing. it's not horrible. i'll point this out. democrats and republicans both like doing one thing and this is what is not, just swampy. they both love to do that. they love spending other people's money and there is no financial restraint whatsoever, and right now about two-thirds of our annual budget in this country goes to personal outlays, medicare, medicaid, social security, and food stamps. that's where all the money is going until any of these men and women stand up and start talking about this. >> harris: why are they talking about it? >> dagen: because it loses them votes. and god blessed them, all of them. >> harris: and jessica is silent, so this is a bipartisan thing for you. >> jessica: cutting entitlements, absolutely. trump was the only republican candidate out there talking about preserving them because he
vague statement from the raj shah, he's the king of debt and seems to have no interest in cutting entitlements, entitlement reform is off the table. the president took it off the table. there's no end in sight to all the spending. > let me go back to charlie. i'm trying to divine the meaning of the word conservative. it used to be you spend less, you're less involved in foreign policy, the only taft model. we don't look for trouble around the world. it meant good prudish behavior in your private life. how many mulligans is this president going to get and how many fields of endeavor? he gets mulligans in his private life as we know, he gets mulligans for deficits, he gets mulligans for important policy dangerous behavior. where is the conservative in the conservative party led by this president? where is it? can you find any conservative aspect of this president? >> sure. if you look at the judges and maybe some of the regulatory roll back. the main point is that this is a party that's not governed by any
republicans to repeal and replace obamacare. certainly there are about 13 million americans that will lose health insurance after the tax bill that just passed. but when people took to the streets and called their senators, called their congressmen, they stopped the obamacare repeal. we've seen senator mitch mcconnell. he said its time to move on. we have a situation in the senate where it's going to be harder for republicans to pass their agenda, not easier. when it was easier, when it was a two-vote margin, they still couldn't get it passed. we see that paul ryan wants to focus on cutting entitlements, even though the president said that is something that he doesn't want to do during the campaign. so mitch mcconnell and paul ryan will have to find a way to come together. really there is leverage that democrats have that comes from the streets as well as to be able to move anything in the
affected by the provision to see if congress is willing to take that up soon. >> and we'll see if they bring up this reporting tas ta argument to move it forward. again, q 1 is when they'll be looking at it again. thank you both by the way on this saturday. >> coming up, now that the tax cut is done, will republicans be setting their sights on cutting entitlements. stick around.
benefit for people in ohio, that may be the case. but when you reduce the top tax rate from 39 to 37, when you increase the exclusion for the estate tax to $22 million, when you cut corporate taxes down to 21%, and you didn't mention the pass through benefit, the limited partnership pass through benefit, that benefits rich people like donald trump and his friends. so maybe the people that rob portman was talking about get a small $1400 tax benefit. but the rich get hundreds of thousands, if not mlillions. >> not only that the rich get disproportionate share of the benefits, but all of this looks like cutting the safety net. we have seen rubio, trump, brady lots of republican leaders suggest that after they get tax cuts through, the next item on the agenda will be cutting entitlements, will be cutting other safety net services like food stamps and all of those