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Spoke earlier to ari fleischer former bush white house press secretary and fox news contributor from new york. ari fleischer, welcome. >> thank you, howard. howie: one thing that reporters love to cover as you know is the legislative sausage making but an area that has gotten extraordinarily little media scrutiny president biden proposing to spend $6 trillion on a vast a ray of programs and no one in the press seems to care about the exploding deficit and debt. why do they not care about that. >> they not only care, reporters tell people that don't worry about the debt and deficits because int...

The bush tax cuts did the same thing, they supposedly would expire after nine years. what we tell folks is this. if it's good policy, it will become permanent. if it's bad policy, it will become temporary. that's just the way it is. so this is done more to force and shoe horn the bill into the rules because we think it's good policy. >> isn't that an admission that it's a gimmick? you're saying it's a $1.5 trillion tax cut, the impact on the deficit but in fact according to most analyses $2.2 trillion. >> not to most analyses. i think one analyses i've seen that number. >> the fact is that you...

Networks you may understand who they are, they accuse us of raising taxes on the rich. so i think it sort of depends on how you look at it. >> we're not taking a political point of view here, we are actually going by nonpartisan groups like the committee for a responsible federal budget, all the impact on the exploding deficit, which will impact future generations. i do want to ask you, though, because the president has refused to talk about roy moore since he's back from his trip. and the white house is saying that he said on air force one he would talk about roy moore in alabama. you were a ...

Do is they take attention, if we don't handle the environment correctly, if we don't have the rules correctly, because tax reform clearly is going to affect the country. it's going to affect our economic future. looking at the way that the tax bill has been reported, i can understand people's concern about it. but when you look at the real tax bill, both house and senate, i think it's designed to do two things. one is to create immediately more take-home pay for hard-working families, and the second thing at the other end of the scale, do whatever we can to be sure there are better jobs in the...

Got this sexual harassment on both sides, not equivalent, but roy moore front and center, robert costa. >> roy moore is front and center, and republicans are worried that he could lose that race or win that race, it's a problem for them. on taxes, though, i don't buy the confidence yet based on my reporting. you've got senator ron johnson of wisconsin -- >> they think they've got him. they think they have a fix for him on small businesses. >> but you talk about trickle-down economics, that still remains the core of the republican party that reagan orthodoxy, but this is a change party. look at...