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Who caused john boehner and paul ryan the most amount of headaches as they tried to figure out, you know, how to -- we had divided government for quite some time as they tried to keep the government open, to actually keep the wheels of government moving even as these things were going on. and, you know, he marched a couple of months ago into the republican conference and was basically laughed at, you know, by members of his own republican conference because he was in there trying to convince them to blow through these budget caps that they had fought tooth and nail to secure and everybody just...

Control our borders and we need to look at what country does not have sufficient vetting. killing in the name of religion if that's one of your moifrs that clearly needs to be deliberated. i think kavanaugh was largely trying to say those cases are still being discussed so i don't want to get too close to them. you're right race can't be one of those variables. >> finally on the federal debt when i got to washington there was a $4 trillion national debt, actually campaigned against it that it was disastrous. when president bush became president 5.5 trillion. when he left it doubled. under bara...

Coming year is stuff that congress has done in the last couple of years. >> so joe, jump in. >> so steve you're saying if congress hadn't busted the budget caps they put in place in 2011, we would be looking at deficit of $440 billion. ing instead of over $1 trillion? >> that's correct. the spending caps and the tax cut that they gave which mostly went to business and wealthy individuals. yeah. that is exactly right. >> when you have politicians -- there have been politicians, paul ryan said it himself. there's nothing that we can do about it, it was going to move this direct no matter what. t...

Spending caps, sequesters that kept it capped for some time. now the pentagon will be getting billions of dollars for missile defense for about 20 more missile intercepters in california. they already have 44 in the ground there. with the north korea threat, they think they need more missile defense. more submarines built. 34 additional ships, planes will be bought, helicopters, dozens of f-16s as well as f-18s and blackhawk helicopters. so this is a period of reset for the military and the largest pay raise for military troops in over a decade. about 3% pay raise. but also important to point ...

Primary voters don't want to cut spending for themselves. and it is in a lot of ways the role that president trump has played in essentially making the republican party more honest about what it is and what it's voters stand for. there was this, you know, sort of pose for a long time that this was a party of fiscal responsibility when in reality it's an anti-tax party. >> now as a result, though, you wound up having a one-two punch here. you had resistance to taxes. they lower the taxes. that's going to create less revenue for the government. that's going to create more borrowing, more debt an...