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The area that hasn't improved is government debt. that's where we get into economic policy questions. what have congress and the white house done to prepare. this gets to the point you were making a moment ago. what has the government done to build up a cushion on their own balance sheet, and the answer to that question is nothing. they have not addressed the long-term debt problems the government faces. jenna: you mentioned the obama economy, but both parties have that issue. who's coming out there with a solution? >> you have had fiscal policy going in opposite directions. the republicans wa...

Input and that every other president has gotten fast-tracked. >> you know, it's interesting, at the end of his term president clinton was having trouble with democrats getting trade deals through, and, again, i think the pressure on the president to make sure that there are real environmental and labor protections here is a good thing. i think what's unfortunate is that if you had a more responsive congress you could accompany a trade deal with some real help for american workers, you know including infrastructure building and other protections that might soften the potential blow for the folk...

Promote our energy independence in this country. what's going on with gas prices? it is totally screwing iran, venezuela and all these countries. >> russia, check them off. >> i love it. >> i would say that if one thing underscored the hypocrisy on the left, they sit around and talk infrastructure and how much we need. they have no problem with infrastructure building, but they won't endorse the keystone pipeline that would create many, many jobs. oil prices are going to go back up. you know why? when you lower it, you have given a tax cut to the working class of the country, it improves the e...

Organization, the heritage foundation, that has been the motor behind the ascendance of ted cruz. to hear him say freeing of the slave had nothing to do with government is a deeply disturbing thesis. your reaction? >> i think it's completely ludicrous. i mean, if there's anything that's a major government program, it's a war. in the civil war was transformative for the american national government. it took the u.s. government, before the war like small, not very powerful, turned it into an engine of tax raising, infrastructure building that never existed before. if you're going to describe any...

And that's a bad, bad place for our country to be in. >> do you want to respond? >> well, again, i know from personal experience that the majority, overwhelming majority of people who are having to receive these programs to stand in the line and pay for their food with food stamps with the card that they do not want this. they want a good-paying job. they want to be able to provide for their family. so what do these vacationing politicians need to do? one, they need to come back to d.c., they need to pass parts of the american jobs act program that they refuse to address, the president has put...