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Party in the second bush term, a lot of it was the war in iraq and afghanistan. we spent an enormous amount of money. big entitlement growth with medicare, bush doing that legislation with the democrats. we have to be careful that we do not become deficit doves. mike pence was known as a deficit hawk and it is great to do all these programs, we have to fix these bridges and so forth but there has to be meaningful cuts. not just rely on future growth in order to get some of this done. i have some agreement and what the freedom caucus is saying here. we don't want to get ourselves in a hole in t...

Happened to the republican party in 2006, sean. we had a big spending republican party in the second bush term, a lot of it was the war in iraq and afghanistan. we spent an enormous amount of money. big entitlement growth with medicare, bush doing that legislation with the democrats. we have to be careful that we do not become deficit doves. mike pence was known as a deficit hawk and it is great to do all these programs, we have to fix these bridges and so forth but there has to be meaningful cuts. not just rely on future growth in order to get some of this done. i have some agreement and what...

>> dashing spending when you still have depressed economy is really destructive. it's probably even counterproductive even in purely fiscal terms. we should be sustaining government spending until we have a stronger economic recovery. >> this is not a hard call. as long as we have 4 million people who have been unemployed for more than a year, this is not a time to be worrying about reducing the budget deficit. give me something that looks more like a normal employment situation and i'll become a deficit hawk but not now. >> do you subscribe to that, jared? or is that too extreme? >> not at al...

Believe barack obama is not dealing with it. this is what republicans are capitalizing on. but even if you were to cut discretionary spending a little smidgen, it's only one-eighth of the budget. you have the big problem of entitlement programs, social security, medicare. nobody is out there yet. they've got a commission working on it but i don't hear republicans republicans saying, okay, we're serious about cutting this deficit. let's see how we are going to do it. instead, they are squabbling over this. >> it's true. >> on the left is this thank you, mr. president, where have you been? or ar...