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Absolutely reasonable budget that is not targeting people who suffer the deepest in this country. not getting a budget that puts profit over people and that really bills us up the misery -- >> tucker: rather than getting to motive, why don't you say, look, the snap program for example, would you support, and i think it is fair to say, we shouldn't got this and here's why. instead of making gross generalizations about people's ethnicity and skin color, and evoking the shared memories of persecution, which you are doing on purpose, say, look -- >> this is persecution. we are cutting the legal se...

Starving, going to do that. my point with let's say the food stamp, the snap program, if 44 million are getting this for food or not, we have bigger problems than just the budget issue. >> absolutely. let me tell you something. the biggest single to threat to life is income and equality. you let that gap get wide enough as it did in cuba, as it did in argentina, venezuela, people will go for the most likely root to give them what they want. okay? we can't afford -- now the gap is as much in effect as it is a course, a problem. the effect of it is, is the effect a bad education in america in pu...

Looks we're seeing huge allotment accounted for infrastructure, defense, parental leave, and massive cuts to things like food stamps. why does that make sense? >> so there's a couple things to look at and i would say we've got, what, $46 million i think right now on food stamps. half of them have been on for ten years. there's something wrong with our food stamp program. >> then the program needs to be revised. to say we're not going to offer food stamps anymore -- >> i think what you've seeing is we are going to make an attempt to revise it. let's not forget, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi vo...

What's your body of proof? welcome back to "the lead." testimony with politics. programs helped low-income children and families could take a hit. his budget blueprint comes out tomorrow. we had a preview and now swe have specifics. it's set to cut s.n.a.p. and food stamps. an administration official suggest the last week this program would likely remain untouched. what are the proposed changes? >> exactly right. doesn't appear to be true. if you look specifically at the food stamp project, the s.n.a.p. program, the administration is going to propose $193 billion in cuts over a ten year peri...

>> bill: the main thing doesn't prove that to you? >> i think the majority of able-bodied adults between 18 and 50 years old, they don't need it. i am all for work-fare. bill clinton and newt gingrich were on the right track. governor lepage in maine on the right track. i don't think entitlements do any good.d. you can't have more than three months of food stamp assistance in three years. i think that's a good plan. >> bill: in maine. able-bodied adults. not children or anything like that. >> you can't minimize the impact of drug abuse. maine has a terrible heroin epidemic. most of the young a...