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>> look, i have been a deficit hawk my entire time. i just alouded to that now. i have also been a pro-growth tax person. so you end up in this place, you know, nothing is perfect here. it was about half a trillion dollars off on a 43 trillion-dollar base, something i didn't want to see happen. buff at the end of the day, i'm glad the economy is growing and i'm glad that businesses are hiring people and wages are going up. >> laura: mueller investigation, where do you think this is going to end up? people say trump is not tough on russia like he should be. i like at obama. russia rolled into c...

Us, save the military, one-time spending for hurricanes, disaster, get some spending cuts that will grow in the out years but we do have to go back and focus on entitlement spending. the house republicans passed the biggest entitlement reform package ever when we passed our healthcare bill. unfortunately, somebody did this instead of that in the senate and it didn't pass. we passed a budget before that that cut $7.4 trillion in spending over 10 years in the house, the problem is we have to get our other partners in government to be willing to do the entitlement reform we're willing to do in th...

Constituents and don't worry, it probably pays for itself any way. take the case of bob corker of tennessee, the deficit hawk announced he is against any tax bill that added one penny to the deficit. not one penny he said. fast forward a few weeks and he signed on to a bill that added more and -- and one a half trillion dollars. that is 150 trillion pennies to the deficit. and 150 trillion pennies is good. rl remember how republicans threatened to deitaly on the debt in 2013 to prevent congress from raising the debt ceiling in the name of curbing spending under a democratic president. today mo...

Is him because he's speaking out of the true progressive playbook. >> and before i let you go. tallahassee, it was seedy, the lobbying community in the way it intermingled with the senate president, are they going to be able to clean that up or does tallahassee have a long way go. >> they have a culture of being isolated. it is a state capitol in the middle of nowhere and we talk about with harvey weinstein, there are a lot of hollywood studios but this is only one florida. this is ingrained in the culture of the place. >> do you think the culture can change. >> but it will take some is time. ...

That's why i fight. so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. welcome back. tonight i'm obsessed with a mythical beast that obsessed washington. it has hundreds of legs and just as many arms and is generally colored red. has one signature trade and no moral authority, it is called the deficit hawk and we don't know if it exists. here is what the mythical deficit hawk believes, that government must never spend more mon...