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Is there enough left over on roughly one third of the top of other programs to cut? >> look, you're going to save a lot by getting rid of obamacare, i estimate a trillion dollars over ten years. leland: hold on, we had bill cassidy on from louisiana and his total savings he has in his repeal and replace bill is 5%. that's a lot of money, but it's certainly not enough to pay for all of this stuff. >> i think you're going to lower-- i don't think he's taking into account this is going to lower health care costs system-wide and going to save money, but i'll take your point. look, donald trump has...

Everybody on the same page, everybody uses the same number. in my opinion obamacare is collapsing from within. it's chaos within. they don't know the numbers of they don't know what they should be paying for. they are not quite sure whether we lose 2.3 million jobs or 2 million jobs. they know it's chaos and they can't get together around a single number, a single picture. >> the deadline is coming. march 31st was when they needed 7 million to pay for the program. then you have this report two years late, with no announcement from the administration, something john boehner was waiting for the ...

To sign off a ten-year $4 billion plan to largely redesign much of its system to better withstand large storms. >> sandy was a game changer for us completely. i've been in this business for 27 years. we used to be helping out down in florida, helping out down in the gulf coast. we now have to be the focal point. we have to build our system the same way. >> reporter: in new jersey, utility bills are some of the highest in the nation. upgrade shouldn't cause bills to go up but big rate reductions won't happen. is the big fix worth the price? >> what they have told others is they believe the work...

Dollars, on to the back end of the last budget that was completed. >> megyn: and, and-- >> the paper trail on this goes for back years. >> megyn: and the reason we don't have a budget. >> people are not good at what they do. >> megyn: okay. so our lawmakers are not doing what we are a paying them to do no budget for four years, imagine running your family without looking at income and outgoing, but that's happening in washington. okay, all we can do is keep saying for four years now, continue the resolution. continue doing the way we were doing it, continue, continue, continue, and finally tha...

Going to pay for it. >> i think this is an important point, it's in sort of what you said there, that politicians of both parties, and democrats do this all the time, they pretend the tax breaks in the code are for yachts and oil companies. when you're talking about these big rate reductions, these kind of big plans, you're talking about things -- you're talking about the home mortgage interest deduction. what are the breaks in the code? >> aside from the ones we mentioned, deduction for state and local taxes is very big. and savings incentives for retirement. i.r.a.s. 401(k)s. all that kind o...