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Weve seen over the past nine months that people like the aca. We had overwhelming support for it. Its interesting to see these issues that if you were to ask someone how you feel about people going and getting an education or having health care, those are pretty evergreen. Martha heres the problem with that. A moral document, you say. Some people think its immoral to have 20 trillion in debt and some people feel like their tax dollars when they get sent to washington are being wasted. For them, they find, perhaps, a different kind of immorality in the way we pay taxes on the way the money is s...

Looking at. Then we can start focusing. The other thing is we need to start Cutting Spending in dc. We have to go back to precovid levels. I will veto any spending that doesnt go back to precovid levels. That will save us trillions. We have to replace the head of every agency and send people into every agency. I did that as governor. Pull down old rags and old programs. Get rid of any problem children and clean those agencies out. And get them mission focused. There is a lot of waste in dc. You need an accountant to go in there and clean it up but were not going to take away from anyone else. ...

The debate next week. take a listen. >> there's no other conclusion to come to that he's both afraid of me and afraid of defending his record. if i had his record, i'd be nervous about showing up too. let's face it, by wednesday he's going to be out on bail in four different jurisdictions. when are we going to stop thinking that's normal? when are we going to allow our country to understand again that nominating someone who's out on bail -- [ no audio ] >> reporter: christie talked about advocating for cutting spending, limiting the federal government. then just a few minutes later he talked a...

Intended this system to work on issues that were not specifically talked about in the institution. this was not, i think, decided rightly. i think you are seeing that great experiment happen throughout the states. what i would hope when i became president is all 50 states will have weighed in and that we can get a national consensus that we can get 60 votes for in the u.s. senate because you can't get anything done in the u.s. senate without 60 votes and i thing it very safe to say whether it was six weeks, 12, 15, 20, you could not get 60 votes in the united states senate for any of that. let...

>> reporter: a big bipartisan victory for the president and kevin mccarthy. the house passed the bill to raise the debt ceiling and limit spending, with a number of members voting for the bill. 149 republicans and 165 democrats joined forces to get this bill over the finish line, where it now goes to the senate. but this was not an easy vote. it was not an easy road to get here. it took weeks of intense negotiations. there were a number of breakdowns in the talks along the way. and there was a last-minute revolt from some rank and file members, particularly among conservatives. republicans wer...