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>> it is different. george w. bush's increase was because of 9/11. and the addition of medicare part d, which a lot of people will say it successful. in terms of us, look, 25% -- >> in tax cuts. >> sure, 25% of the federal government spending is what we have any control over. 75% is auto pilot spending. you have 10,000 baby boomers retiring in a day. if you can make an adjustment to entitlements for guys my age, i'm 39, if you tell me that maybe there is a delay in retirement or something, a means testing for me when i get to that age, but it saves it for current seniors and puts it on the rig...

Rely on medicare. so there are ways to reform the medicare program that make it more progressive and more means tested and therefore, more fiscally responsible. >> ali, does means testing help? >> that's not the problem. the issue is when you have medicare -- one of the things about medicare and medicaid that make it work is that it's as close as you can get to universal coverage. this is the same thing as talking about medicare recipients to get their stuff. the one thing that we have to look about when you look at an unfunded liability and tax cuts that don't result in economic growth is an ...

Regretting this happened. >> are you concerned that this idea of means testing also became programs for the poor and the poor are not a voting constituency. once you take them away from middle class people and rich people then they take it away. >> that's exactly right. the reason why they work -- all these programs work is because everybody has skin in the game. they want to make sure they're as robust as possible so they, too, can enjoy it. remember when bush was running on the whole idea of privatizing social security? that was when the markets were rallying and it sounded like a great idea...

You're trying to come up with a strategic excuse why they should not be used. >> and wrong. the country is not filled with the kind of racists that the white house thinks are going to see them through this particular storm. >> that's such a great point. when people paint with broad brush strokes of trump supporters, that is completely wrong. >> i agree. >> i don't know anyone who would support this kind of language, who sees the world in this narrow minded way. only norwegians. we only want norwegian immigrants who are blonde and blue eyed. >> i don't think they're knocking on your door to com...

Fact there were 25 days straight, the second longest senate floor debate in our nation's history and they want to rush this through with three days. >> i think what the american people want is the better health care plan. they were told they could keep their doctor, they were told they could keep their plan, that was judged as the lie of the year because everybody up and down the food chain gets medical care found out that wasn't the case. one of the things it's very interesting and this is that it does try to go after things like means testing. age-adjusted tax credits, ways of looking at whe...