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Trump blaming president obama for doubling the national debt. >> barack obama has doubled during his fairly short period of years. he's doubled our national debt. molly: how much truth is there to the back-and-forth tonight? >> said the debt clock if you like yesterday $22 trillion it's going to continue to grow largely because a number of programs we have on the books such as social security, medicare, medicaid, these are benefits being paid in is the demographics continue to change in that direction, we will continue to see quite frankly the debt has increased nearly a trillion and a half ov...

Control. the democrats who want to go into a socialism type model don't have a plan that has the tax revenue base of a european country. >> the u.s. is still more contained than say europe -- not europe, but china and japan. charles: the only major economy -- >> the difference is a country like japan and most of europe borrows at negative interest rates. we do not have that luxury. we borrow at fairly high rates relative to the rest of the world who has their debt under control. or interest payments as a percentage of gdp, which is really all that matters, japan is a negative interest rate, do...

To embrace capitalism, not some state-run, state-controlled socialism that will set our economy back 100 years or more. so give the president some credit. it was a very good turn of phrase. >> bill: let me frame the argument here. i'll give you props and show you potholes. optimism about personal finances has klimd to levels. record high 7 million job openings. wages grew by 3.2%. i know you love to talk about it. i'm seeing retail sales down in december, might be a drag on the markets today. i'm looking at a number on the debt clock of 22 trillion. how do we climb out of that hole? i know tha...

Dollars more to our debt. >> you all ran the debt clock up so much over the past two years and that is enough. neil: by the way, you know, republicans too but they're rich to talk about how much things cost when in fact the deficit is going to exceed $1 trillion this year, so no one seems to be coming up with ways to reign that in. >> but neil, i would, if senate republicans had relinquished the filibuster on passing legislation, they would not have had to accommodate senate democrats excessive request for domestic spending to match the military build up that the president made. neil: we'll fo...

Full republican control of washington. >> and i know you know how d.c. works probably better than i do. you've got to get 60 votes to make that happen. we did through reconciliation get rid of the individual mandate and take some of the underpinnings of the affordable care act out. we've got to replace it, in the same way that we've got to make sure that social security and medicare can be paid for and medicaid over time. what the democrats are not mentioning are widely publicized reports that say, if we stay on the current trajectory, we're going to have a crisis in funding in those programs....