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Oddly enough, $5 trillion . national debt in essence is attributable to the wars in the middle east the last 16 years. that's a different conversation. but we've got to look at what are those fundamentals that are driving us to a higher and higher debt level and we've got to do something to put the brakes on it. so, the idea of clean without addressing the core issue of how you're building up that debt to me doesn't make sense and i don't think it makes sense to the number of conservatives as well. >> will the conservative freedom caucus as it's called in the house of representatives go along ...

Hill. can the general convince congressional republicans to trust him? because what we've seen from president trump, he becomes very eradic and very vengeful. we have seen him go after republicans at times because of his anger and not for strategic reasons and that is going to be key. and will the general be able to take telephone calls and be willing to take telephone calls from members of congress at any hour of the day on every subject, because that is the key to the trump presidency, moving forward they need to get health care done. who knows what is going to happen. they are talking about...

Has diminished and productivity has been weak, you can see what we've been growing at. and this tax cut is not going to bring us to 4.5%. no way, no how or even probably to 3%. >> do they know that? are they being disingenuous? >> yeah, somewhat disingenuous. even republican economists under president bush said at best tax cuts pay for about a third of themselves. that's what the math works out to be. lastly, if you take a look at what's happening to the debt under this plan, you can see if you use more reasonable assumptions for economic growth, roughly our current 2%, our debt level which is...

Qualified. she has support of both republicans and democrats. we need to do this this week. the good news is we also have agreement on the human trafficking issue, something that democrats and republicans have been very strong about. it's unfortunate that women's reproductive rights again got tied up in the issue that should not be addressing women's reproductive rights. i'm hopeful that we have an agreement that people can support. >> reporter: hillary clinton is here. she's still talking to students and to the faculty in this community college. this community college is part of the new hamps...

Down almost 50%. why? because their politicians moratorium sensible than ours, they acknowledged their spending was going to eat their future. >> in mid '90s canada finance minister said we're in debt up to our eyeballs, that can't be sustained, their debt level was as bad as ours is today almost 70% of their economy. >> i was growing up in canada people on un. insurance were said to go in pogey, you could work 8 weeks taking year off, curling playing hockey. john: play hockey all year. >> oh, yeah. john: no work for most of the year, in 1995, canadian leader cut unemployment benefits, and oth...