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Of the clinton administration were rocky and chaotic. >> and history was not on their side. in every midterm election since world war ii, the incumbent president's party had lost seats in the house of representatives. so the long, hot summer in washington left many asking, "was the comeback kid out of comebacks?" >> we believe in this contract and these reforms so deeply. >> republicans, led by minority whip newt gingrich of georgia, unveiled their blueprint to take back congress called the contract with america. it was a bold agenda that included tax reform, defense-spending increases, and co...

Defense increase. and of course as saean mentione the enforcement of immigration laws. the illegal crossings have been reduced by 40%. the stock market is up. on the other hand, let me just say this -- >> to be fair, a lot of the those things -- >> we need to focus on some of the negative things that have happened to presidents. president kennedy had the bay of pigs. president lincoln had states withdraw from the union. there have been pretty good presidents who had some really bad things happen in their first 100 days. that is not what's going on here with donald trump. >> to be fair -- >> th...

Lot of things in the president's budget that caught people off guard, meaning there's a lot of things that he wants to get accomplished. how does he do that? we're talking infrastructure, building the wall, pumping up the military, that's a lot and we still have obamacare on the books. >> yes, and i think the warning is this, he's asked for money for the wall, for this year's budget, not going to happen. the defense increase, it may be much smaller than anyone anticipates. so, i think we have to scale back our thinking on that for the rest of this fiscal year, and hope that we can really get s...

Impacted by the cuts in the president' new budget proposa. it eliminates funding for arts sciences and programs that help the poor to member pay for a $54 billion defense increase and over $1 billion for the border wall next year. top republicans say it's dead on arrival but mick mulvaney defended the proposal on morning joe. >> can you talk about where you are concerned that perhaps some of these cuts may hurt american's lives, if anywhere? >> no. i think that we're actually doing exactly what we said to do to protect americans. but we don't balance the budge, but we do reprioritize spending....

Republican party like paul ryan and the people around him who will say, well, what about entitlements, medicare and social security? maya will say something about that, too. this doesn't touch that. and that's an absolute promise trump made during the campaign he'd not touch entitlements. puts him at odds with the more libertarian leaning republicans in congress. then on the other side you have big cuts at the state department and for international diplomacy and you have a lot of foreign policy hawks who like the defense increase but say, wait a second. if america is going to be strong in the ...