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Nationwide march for equality and pride today. it's to prevent discrimination against those in the lgbtq community and highlights disable rights. and we have a winner. the winning powerball jackpot worth a whopping $447 million. i'll just take the rounding error. it was is sold in sun city, california. the drawing was the tenth largest lottery prize in u.s. history. all right. now while attorney general jeff sessions getting ready to appear tuesday before the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors the head of the rnc said today it's time to stop these probes. >> this is a fishin...

Budget. more than $4 trillion, it is the biggest budget ever submitted by any country ever in the history of earth, of man kind. over the next ten years, it maps out spending of -- sitting down? of course you are -- $55 trillion. you know what it's supposedly cut something nothing. nothing at all. like i said, cutting is when you take a figure and reduce that to a lesser figure. no, this budget shaves the increase in spending over the ten-year period by about 3.5 trillion. 3.6 trillion to be exact versus 55 trillion in total spending. so 3.5%. a rounding error. an increase in spending overall,...

Inflation of healthcare. that's not correct. >> neil: let's not go off on a tangent with me here. let's talk about the budget. 55 trillion spent the next ten years. the administration is looking at -- i'm hardly an a poll gist. they don't do my show. they want to pair 3.6 trillion over ten years. you would have to conclude that is a rounding error on a rounding error, would you not? >> not for the part of the budget that they're cutting. what you're highlighting, neil -- and i agree with it -- is that the vast majority of the budget is not discretionary spending. it's social security, medicare...

A rounding error. this is not meant to be a political squabble here. just a discussion of math. for more on that, i want to go to austin. i know where you're coming from. you know where i'm coming from on this math here. if this is hartless and cruel and going to kill children, do you find as a very smart guy with numbers that justifies? that response justified and does it make you want to vomit when fellow democrats say that? i'll let you take it from here. >> you know, it doesn't make me want to vomit. it's not unfair in this case. they're getting in a big emotional discussion about it. >> n...

To take a red pencil to the budget and say this can go, they can't do it. dagen: you want to respond? >> grandchildren are pretty far down the line so i don't have a comment. dagen: john, you have the final word. >> whether the arts are good or bad doesn't matter when you are talking about a $4 trillion budget and a couple billion dollars, that is a rounding error, not a day's worth of interest expense. two thirds of the budget is social security, medicaid, medicaid, debt service, you have to do something with these entitlements, doing something like this makes people feel good and it is a goo...