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just about at the top of the hour, the end of another historic day and another historic first for donald trump. mere weeks after becoming the first former president charged on state felony offenses, he's now also the first to be charged with the federal kind, specifically 37 counts connected to retaining, mishandling, moving, concealing government documents, some of them highly classified. >> the indictment also details allegations of two occasions he shared highly sensitive material with people not cleared to see it. he's also accused of hiding documents from his own attorneys and c...

They're deflecting. the whataboutism and hypocrisy argument is a deflection because they can't even defend what the former president has done. >> and i'll tell you, what you saw -- i'm just trying not to seeth about it because i expected so much better of him. he's not running. i don't know what he's running for. what you saw from him, though, again, it's like that, like, hey guys to the concern group, i'm concerned too. to the base, it's like, still with you. what you saw in the argument he made is what you're going to see the quote, unquote reasonable republicans now make. they're going to s...

We've seen them behaving like that's actually the case. but the president is opening himself up to the claims of what poc yassy by a lot of conservatives who spent the last decade saying that deficits do matter and there was a debt crisis coming. they projected enough economic growth to somehow lift all boats, but it's not going to escape that hypocrisy argument. and the lorther point about border security that has to be remembered is that this president was serious about getting money for the wall letter it on the table. he had a much bigger immigration deal that was possible. he didn't want ...

Now look, i think it's worth saying that many republicans, and i would put paul ryan in this group, sincerely believe that lower taxes are better for the economy. and related to that, this gets to what we're going to see next year, they want government to be smaller. so in terms of the issue of the deficit, you were talking with senator tester about the hypocrisy argument against republicans, they cared about the deficit under obama, not so much now. well, they care about government deficits when democrats are in power because they think democrats are for larger government. when they're in pow...

Hypocrisy argument against republicans, they cared about the deficit under obama, not so much now. well, they care about government deficits when democrats are in power because they think democrats are for larger government. when they're in power, if they can lower the amount of tax revenue, that makes it easier for them to cut programs. they don't support those programs. that's what we're seeing. they're going to try to do it next year. >> the deficit is a feature, not a bug in this case, thanks for your time. reports robert mueller's investigation could potentially wrap up before the end o...