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Rallying against it. he has that deficit hog that will be still hammering away. he had some deficit hawks there but with the president trump in office, things like tax cuts immigration infrastructure, this plank of the republican party has been withdrawn to the back burner. people like rand paul, while they can make a great point about it, is not going to be something -- >> is all about politics? to be able to give the president his victory so therefore they get to take that into the republican party. meaning they can taken into november saying that this is why he should continue voting republ...

The last seven, eight years, 4%. it is currently less than 2%, as you know. >> right. >> the possibility of interest rates staying as low as they are now is highly unlikely, and that as interest rates rise, yes, the economy will recover but the interest payments on the much larger debt become crushing. >> a couple of things there. first of all, as long as the economy remains weak interest rates will remain low. if the economy gets stronger interest rates will go up but also if the economy gets stronger we will have more revenue and then i start to become a deficit hog. by no means am i saying ...

Obama wants to put it into obama care and a new entitlement for health care. whereas ryan wants to put us on a more sustainable fiscal path. that's a big difference. >> he wants to put us on a sustainable fiscal path, why won't he raise revenues? why doesn't his plan reduce the deficit? it doesn't deal with the debt that the republican plans have actually added on? paul ryan is the guy who voted for the tax cut that added trillions of of dollars to the debt. he voted for tarp. he voted for the automobile bailout. now he wants to be a deficit hog. it just doesn't add up. >> i hear your point. >...

Intellectual honesty in the room and recognizing what the political realities are. i think a large number of people are economied to do it. it has to be everything. everything has to be on the table from social security to the defense department. i'm convinced there is $50 billion a year in waste in the defense department and we can get it and i'm convinced there is hundreds of billions of dollars of waste across government programs and we can go get it. i think there is a commitment to try and get something done. whether we will or not i don't know. the mandate on us is do we want to make the...

Intellectual honesty in the room and recognizing what the political realities are. i think a large number of people are economied to do it. it has to be everything. everything has to be on the table from social security to the defense department. i'm convinced there is $50 billion a year in waste in the defense department and we can get it and i'm convinced there is hundreds of billions of dollars of waste across government programs and we can go get it. i think there is a commitment to try and get something done. whether we will or not i don't know. the mandate on us is do we want to make the...