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A guest sitting with first lady melania trump including jameel shaw. democrats are counters that with their own guests who are impacted by the president's travel ban on majority muslim countries. >> he talks like a populist but governs like a pro-corporate, pro pro-elite hard right ideologue. >> reporter: facing skepticism of his plan that ramps up defense spending while slashing domestic programs, a plan budget experts say will blow a hole in the budget. the improving economy, the president said, will make up any shortfall. >> i think the money's going to come from a revved up economy. i mean...

Benefit has come both ways, more so on china. >> and that needs to change. >> let me jump in because i'm out of time. go ahead, cal. >> i don't agree on iran. i think they are still in drive and picking our pocket on the nuclear. the president said if a program hasn't been working for 50 years, we need to try something else. i would like to apply that to a whole lot of domestic programs. >> there's a point and we have to end on that point. thanks to both of you. >> thanks, arthel. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> the most notorious nazi concentration camps and says there are sickenin...

Triggering reductions he opposed but he and congress failed to avert. >> it's important to understand that while not everyone will feel the pain of these cuts right away, the pain will be real. many middle class families will have their lives disrupted in a significant way. >> meanwhile, house speaker john boehner spoke exclusively to david gregory for sunday's "meet the press." his comments came after he met friday with the president and other congressional leaders. >> in the end, you don't really see a pathway here that's open as you sit here. >> if i did, the meeting at the white house this...

>> here's the thing. none of this is necessary. it's happening because republicans in congress chose this outcome over closing a single wasteful tax loophole that helps reduce the deficit. just this week they decided that protecting special interest tax breaks for the well off and well connected is more important than protecting our military and middle class families from these cuts. >> but republicans aren't having any of it in their weekly address today throwing the blame right back at president and democrats. >> these devastating, across the board cuts, first proposed by the president, will...

To create initiatives without having to pay for them, how to rejigger things in our economy and our finances and our pocketbook to actually pay for this stuff. >> and those two big deadlines, you have that march deadline for the deep cuts to defense, as well as to domestic programs. and middle of may, you have the deadline about the debt ceiling. so all these fiscal matters and you have to wonder if that's going to suck so much political oxygen out of capitol hill, what else will they be able to get done. every three months there's another fiscal crisis. >> manufactured crisis is the way presi...