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It was wrapping up? it's not part of this budget deal. >> i believe that is an appropriate place for this to be taken care of. this speech yesterday, that's a long time to stand on the floor and make the argument and i give her credit for doing that. at the end of the day, more about solving the problems them political theater. let's solve the problem by having an open and honest debate on the issue. >> >> harris: certainly no one s against raising the cap for the military. i'm trying to understand how the conversation got to where it is now with certain elements. >> you and mitch mcconnell an...

The last administration. that's where we are today. we've come to this place where we all, everybody on this stage i would say everybody in the republican conference understands we have to deal with the debt issue. there is no question about it. but we cannot do it on the backs of the men and women serving us. we don't have time on our side. we have to get these resources to them right away as quickly as we can. and i would also say to my good friends in the freedom caucus that we got these numbers, we got where we are because we were all unified. we stayed together and i would ask them not to...

>> 62 doesn't work. >> 68, i know 68 doesn't work. >> daca is the right thing to do. most republicans agree with that. and most even in the house agree with that. >> in principle. >> the politics are tough in some parts of the country, no doubt. but, you know, this in some ways is not that complicated, even though it's become very complicated, you have most people who agree that daca needs to be fixed, the majority of republicans, trump wants border security, wants the wall, wants the structure, call it whatever you want and the government needs to operate and we have to deal with the debt iss...

3 million jobs created. so it works. reagan cut taxes. almost 16 million jobs were created to we just need to look at history. we know what works. lowering taxes on the job creators works. ed: we have 30 seconds. i do want to ask you though, to be fair about it, what about the debt issue here which is how you are going to pay for this republicans talk a good game about reducing debt. i sat down with you, you told me to get my credit cards in order and deal with my debt. >> no question. we have doubled our national debt in the last decade. we have got to reduce our debt. how do we get there? we...

When you look at pass press department, they will have to deal with the debt issue. >> and we have lot of nonpartisan analyses that say this will increase the debt.>> nonpartisan analyses that say this will increase the debt. paul ryan said we'll turn to medicare and entitlement programs to bring down the debt. so i think republicans know that it will add to the debt. to say otherwise doesn't make any sense. >> so one thing i've heard myself even this morning is frankly some griping. there is frustration that there continues to be discussion about how this bill benefits the wealthy, which it s...