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Bill and melinda gates sat down with stephen colbert. >> you heard about the existence of billionaires is a failure of capitali capitalism. what would you say that billionaires shouldn't exist? >> we might be biassed. it's possible. i think you can make the tax system take a higher portion of people with great wealth. >> here to talk about this is ryan streeter, director of domestic policy studies. this is the debate the country has had a long time. where are we with it now? >> we're where we have always been. people are on different sides of the issues. when you talk about a 70% tax rate, the...

In the country. >> yeah, it's hard to know how to legislate these things. your point is right. the reality is, all demographic groups, no matter how you slice it, the ideal definition of the american dream involves being free to pursue their dreams. to have a rewarding family life. doesn't mean they don't want to own a home for have a successful career, but they rank those after those more fundamental priorities. so protecting our basic liberties, making sure everybody has an opportunity to participate in every aspect of society and making sure families are strong should be priorities. that's ...

Saying r quote, once again millionaires win while working families, kids, seniors are out in the cold. i wish this wasn't a surprise, but it's more of the same from this administration. president trump's budget should be a nonstarter for congress. congress, of course, loves having the power of the purse, so many lawmakers will take a look at the president's suggestions but may want to do the work themselves. dana? >> dana: all right, mike. thank you. president trump saying the budget is something both parties could stand behind. >> but this is a commonsense and bipartisan plan that every membe...

Well. paul ryan close to where he is in his career by making the case and normalizing what it would look like to put into place sort of commonsense reforms and just modernize though programs. with the budget deal that was struck last week, the gop has kind of abandoned its role as the watch dog over issues like this. the projected deficit, because of this budget deal that was done last week is about the same level as right after the financial crisis in 2009 and 2010. that's the tea party way. when the deficit got that high, we saw the tea party. we're basically at projections at that level now...

For more. paul cain for the "the washington post," michael steele, former senior adviser to jeb bush and ryan streeter. it does seem as though so much of what happens in this white house is that their forced to talk about things that they didn't necessarily want to. i want to point to vice president pence who came under fire for addressing the government shutdown while talking to troops. here's what claire mccaskill had to say about it on "morning joe." >> channelling harry truman here it makes me damn mad. there should be sacred areas that we don't pull in to this food fight and one of those ...