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Popular with voters and kind of cool, i'd love to pay less tax, that hurts the government's rev move in which increases the debt which is not often as much of a problem for doechlts democrats republicans. republicans hate this. >> but republicans are looking for a victory and i think the debt issue is much less important to republicans than immediate tax relief. this issue is very popular among voters and among democrats, 65% of overall americans want tax reform and now. 70% of democrats would like to see tax relief immediately. this gives a ton of cover to democrats who might not want to work...

Thing but people don't know all the work we've made good to keep our promises. you are my employer, i work for you, my job as your employee is when running for office is to tell you who i am, what i believe, what are my values and principles and theolicies i work on. that's what i'm in the middle of executing right n in the house. like i said, go to did you know gop. you'll see all the bills. more bills have passed in the first six months under the trump administration in the house than under clinton, bush and obama. >> in terms of the senate's agenda, the budge director nick mull via any a...

The deficits. >> we do. >> neil: anything that compounds that is going to complicate that. republicans could be looking at another problem. what do you through? >> i don't think the debt issue in the short run is a real, real problem. the debt issue seven years from now is a real problem. if we don't get economic growth right now, we won't get that debt down as a -- >> neil: you can't grow your way out. >> yes, you cans that the only way -- >> neil: grow out of $23 trillion in debt? >> the only way to do it. look at federal tax revenues. the only thing -- not takes rates or any of this nonsens...

Not going to accept that and you have something dead on arrival. so the real challenge is going to be whether or not the president is serious about dealing with the debt issue and whether or not he's willing to call both republicans and democrats together to develop a comprehensive budget approach. >> there's been this letter from 120 four-star generals and admirals saying that taking away from the state department is making us less safe and i know jim mattis and how he feels about this and the reality is the military commanders understand that a very important part of our ability to promote p...

What's going to happen if you are going to solve the debt issue. this makes that more urgent. people haven't been talking about debt the way that they were four years"7 ago, three years ago. buff they need to be again. >> yeah. quickly. does this effect hillary clinton? is this a sign of good things for her? is it bad sign? >> i think it depends on what happens with the economy next year. i think if you have the interest rates start to creep up a bit and you don't see a measurable impact on the economy, it probably has no effect. if the economy does start to suffer, i think it could possibly h...