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Jobs for last seven years. it's been a major recovery. the economy's overall top lines are good. there's a lot of people in america who are suffering to make ends meet. this is totally lost from this conversation as we focus on things like stocks and corporate tax cuts. >> none of this is going to address the skills gap. none of it addresses worker participation. we still have huge costs. women aren't going back to work because they cannot afford child care. and if we have a -- if we have to have cuts to our budget, you are going to have programs cut that care for children. after school proble...

School, which is what when we took your money from you to say we're going to spend it on after school problems, the way we justified is these are going to help kids get better jobs. >> that was march 16. that was the big budget fight. it strikes me as part of the problem here, the president didn't run on austerity. he then rolled out an austerity budget, and there was no real groundwork laid to actually make that a reality. >> right. there are several things going on here. one is just what you said. he ran as a populist, a big government guy who is going to help the little guy. here he is made...

That's why i think a lot of appropriations committee, the members who write the bills, would say we should have done this in december, cleared the deck. wow have had a fresh start with the fy 18 budget rather than dealing with this. >> i was reminding watching mick mulvaney today that this is a very long way from what his big budget rollout was because that big budget rollout was a real hard core austerity budget. we were going to slash and cut and cut. here he is explaining why basically meals on wheels and school lunches are things the government can't afford. take a look. >> they're suppose...

Not know it, then they have a problem. >> with alcohol, the same warning you'd give me as in the 1920's? >> i think alcohol is the worst. we teach not to smoke cigarettes when you're pregnant but people keep doing it. the biggest problem here is people don't know they have to get off marijuana because it hasn't been tied in with birth defects yet. >> we've seen the effect it has on the brain. >> huge behavior problems. >> when the brain is developing as a baby in the womb. >> short term and long term, kids that are on marijuana when they're born -- they didn't intend to be on it -- they end up...

Legalize the -- you will see a mass of people on the roads causing problems there. school problems. employment problems. and on and on. this thc is a very powerful intoxicant. it's not a buzz, beer buzz. it's much much more. but i'm going to bring it back to what i brought it back last week when you and i had the shootout. you have a child now. all right? >> yes. who by the way did not sign up to be brought up on national tv in a drug discussion. >> if you are going to advocate the legalization of marijuana and you are going to have to answer questions about children and your child is, i'm sur...