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Deficit cutting deals under president barack obama. >> i don't know that you could say that it's a better deal when you're helping people that are in a recovery effort and that certainly was the priority of the president is making sure that we move things forward and quickly so that those people were taken care of and that was the priority in that process. >> special counsel robert mueller was looking to meet with or interview white house staff regarding the statement put out early in july about donald trump jr.'s meeting with several individuals at trump tower. has a formal request been made ...

Prostitution scandal within her agency. she was grilled about light punishments for agents accused of attending sex parties while stationed in colombia, engaging with prostitutes paid for by drug cartels. some agents were suspended for as little as two days. >> this person is imposing a national security risk, engaging in behavior that is just -- it's embarrassing that we have to talk about this. >> the chairman of the house oversight committee is calling for the dea chief to step down or be fired. let's turn to presidential politics now. not quite yet for chris christie in new hampshire yes...

Contrast between what democrats want to do, what the president wants to do, giving millions of people a raise with the minimum wage, and really focusing on fairness for working people and for the middle class versus the priorities of the republican party, which it's unbelievable to me that in this budget, the first thing he does, this so-called deficit hawk, paul ryan, to blow a hole in the budget by giving huge tax breaks to the wealthiest among us. then he seeks to make it up, as he always does, on the backs of the poor. well, then again increasing spending on the military. it's unconscionab...

Because winter needs a hero. ♪ this week brought a fresh storm to the polarized vortex that's the politics of the affordable care act. the cbo projected that the health care law will reduce the ranks of the uninsured by 13 million this year. it lowerwill cut the government long-term deficits by about a trillion dollars over the next decade. cut the deficits. once again, deficit cutting. not bad. not bad.

Legislation but let's look at what's in the bills. >> i think that's true and it's why so many americans and i think this is a classic example of this, look at the policy priorities out of washington and go what are they thinking? they are so disconnected from what i actually care about. i have another hypothesis i would like you to weigh in on. it seems like the priorities of washington are much more closely matched with what the wealthy elite in the country want, rather than the general public. looking at this bill specifically, 87% of wealthy individuals prioritize saying deficit cutting is...