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Asks the fbi if there are communications between the trump campaign and russians they've told him no, which is something that sean spicer and the white house have said there were conversations the fbi is investigating. it's a matter of whether they were frequent and constant as some news outlets have reported. the white house disputing that but not the calls took place. interesting there. >> we've got the picture of the white house on the screen. i want to bring in robert costa, "washington post" msnbc political analyst. this falls into my category the budget. the president is talking for mayb...

Entirely. but the bottom line is republicans in congress won't go for that degree of cutting. some of them won't even go for that increase in defense spending. so we know that raising taxes is off the table because donald trump and the republicans have said so. they actually want to cut taxes. so generally speaking if you're going to spend that kind of money, your only options are increase the deficit or increase taxes. since we know taxes aren't going up, it means a deficit increase. the administration is counting on a lot more economic growth but there's no particular reason we should expect...

Money. >> real money. >> the stuff you'd have to take off the table to get $54 billion without increasing taxes is very difficult. and there are a lot of republicans who don't want to see the deficit increase. from a mathematical perspective i don't understand how this is supposed to bourque. >> i don't either. he told me last night and vice president pence mentioned to me last night that actually said terry you'll be happy in virginia that we have increased defense spending. i didn't get any details on the other side of it. it is a tremendous amount of money. we don't want it to come on takin...

Blueprint to make it so that you get some money from like limiting the state and local income tax deduction and so on, things like that, so they claw the money back by making the base wider and then they can get lower rates. i also think getting down to 15 is going to be tough and so once the budget realities hit congress and they try to legislate something they think they can pass through the house and the sate at that point they have to maybe cut down the deficit increase quite a bit. >> kevin, always good to see you. you make it so clear for us. kevin hassett at american enterprise institut...

They see his presidency as above average, but when you come to rank and file voters, they look back at the taxes that george h.w. bush raised. you are right. it's possible that we go from bush 41 to bush 43 to possibly bush 45. where the bush family name is not held in regard the way ronald reagan was or barry gold water was for so many voters. >> the legacy there, you have the deficit increase and a tough time trying to private as i social security. you don't have a lot of republicans in their act of war by any means. they have to focus on post 9/11 leadership. political editor and jackie, th...