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Sounds like a cliche'ed statement. liz, this involves day care where all taxpayers would cover the cost of day care for everyone, for all of their neighbors and everyone else regardless of whether or not they have children themselves and where people can take 12 weeks off every year if the need arises every year for family leave and paid $1,000 a week for that family leave regardless of how much they make. your thoughts, liz on this transformative proposal and where it stands now. >> well, obviously it's in trouble. thank heavens it is. i think that joe manchin really was right. we have large ...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. that's why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the actions his administration took including at this point we're 77, 78% of the public having received one v...

Quarters that growth exceeded 3% and just touched it. you can see that in the last quarter growth will be wellnd 2% and declining from there according to jp morgan, goldman sachs and everybody else who looks at this, except the white house who claims growth but it's what mirage. look at the budget deficit. the budget deficit did hit a low point during the financial crisis but it came back most of the way and now you can see that because of the trump tax cuts and because of the entitlements programs and all of our other obligations, deficits are going to hit $1 trillion next year, keep going un...

There's no room for you to move? >> i would vote for block grant at pre-obama levels. if you want to look at 2009 levels with medicaid i would say yes. but after you doubled the spending on these entitlements programs, we have a $700 trillion deficit this year. and $20 trillion debt. we can't keep piling on new money. there has to be a few conservatives left in washington to say we're really for repealing obama care. >> lit me ask a question, and you probably have heard the speculation, but "the national review" put it this way about you. there has been widespread speculation on obama care. he...

Debt are medicare, medicaid, social security, defense and interest on the budget and none of that was touched. well, he wants to slash medicaid, of course. defense spending went up. interest rates are going to start going up. the problem becomes more difficult. all these jackals running around on capitol hill that say they're going to balance the budget by cutting $15 from big bird are just lying to their constituents, lying to themselves, discretionary domestic spending is not going to even dent the national budget -- >> to your point, what's happening now is that the deficit is starting to i...