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♪ ♪ >> the foundation for the plan is 3% growth. in fact, people can me, you're the budget -- ask me you're the budget director, whatever can get us to 3% growth. paul: white house budget director mick mulvaney this week unveiling the trump administration's budget for 2018, the $4.1 trillion plan seeks to eliminate the deficit in ten years while avoiding cuts to medicare and social security. all this based on the premise that the u.s. economy will reach 3% growth by 2021. so is that a realistic goal? let's ask economist douglas holtz-eakin, president of the american action forum and former...

$54 million, that's how much the animated movie "home" earned. topping the box office. will farrell's movie came in next. more and more schools is doing body mass index testing on kids. that's not sitting well with many parents. this weekend on "fox and friends," we spoke to an outraged mom. her 54 pound 7-year-old was sent home with a letter from school saying that her bmi was too high. >> you know there was a lot of things that they were not doing properly with this program. she is almost entirely muscle because of an underlying growth issue. and so anybody that actually has more muscle th...

Correct? >> whether that's part of the full package or the short term hasn't been decide yet. my guess is the short term will be a down payment, then we'll exchange our spending habits. when want more time to lay out the growth issue and also the spending restrain issues. what we need is spending caps, guardrails from future spending from congress. we need a little more time to lay that out. martha: do you think the president is anywhere near ready to strike that kind much deal? he's not been interested in tax reform or entitlement reform. this could be a big non-starter. >> maybe not. we thin...

Outcomes as any other advanced developed nation on earth. and that would seem to be a science bl proposal. sensible proposal. the problem right now is not the technical means to solve it, the problem is our politics. and that's part of what this election and what this debate will need to be about. is are we as a country willing to get back to common sense, balanced, fair solutions that encourage our long-term economic growth and stabilize our budget. and it can be done. one last point i want to make, dean, that i think is important. because it goes to the growth issue. if state and local gover...

Outcomes as any other advanced developed nation on earth. and that would seem to be a sensible proposal. the problem right now is not the technical means to solve it. the problem is our politics. and that's part of what this election and what this debate will need to be about, is are we, as a country, willing to get back to common sense, balanced, fair solutions that encourage our long-term economic growth and stabilize our budget and it can be done. one last point i want to make, dean, that i think is important. because it goes to the growth issue, if state and local government hiring were ba...