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United states in a very important manner for his job. why they would not have sent him aside while investigations were being looked at, rather. we will talk more about this with ari fleischer coming up, former white house press secretary. we are going to move on to talk about the budget deal. the budget deal to fund the government now has president trump's signature and is back open. congress voted to end a very brief shutdown early this morning, casting a bill to fund the government through march 23rd. also listing spending caps. the measure faced opposition from the left and from conservativ...

And wreck our debt. >> david, as a former omb director and so am i. so you do look at how much we've added to the national credit card here. what concerns me is you've got a combination obviously the tax cut added about $1.5 trillion to our debt. the estimate here, this could add as much as $1.5 trillion if the spending caps continue at the level that was agreed to into the future. so that's about $3 trillion. >> neil: nobody mentions the other spending that was part of this package that goes up a separate $10 trillion. everybody talks about the tax cuts. >> yeah, no, there's an awful lot of a...

Can we add this $400 billion? can we raise these spending caps? on the democrat side as we saw from nancy pelosi who went on that record-breaking stand in the name of daca and the dreamers, will enough democrats get on board? paul ryan cannot get this past without democrats. the magic number is typically 217. it varies on the number of members voting, you need to get certainly some democrats against steve scalise. we will see as the debate plays out but we will see certainly some resistance from members of the republican side and the democrat side as they get to a vote but the vote is happenin...

We have cnn analyst ron brownstein and john avlon. the vote today, what do we expect to happen? >> the senate is clearly there and the house is kind of a mess. >> they have a deal. so they will do the 60 votes, you think? >> yeah, absolutely. this is a continuation of a movie we have seen before. people should understand these spending caps on on both domestic and defense spending are the remnants of the attempt at the grand bargain between barack obama and john boehner. and spending caps were a doomsday machine put in designed to be so onerous. the spending caps they voted twice before to lif...

Irresponsibility of congrespend money we don't have. the bill's going to exceed the budget caps by $296 billion. and that's not counting the money they don't count. these people are really, really clever. imagine them running their fingers together and saying how can we hide stuff from the american people, how can we evade the spending caps so we can be even more irresponsible than we appear? so 296 is the official number. about $300 billion over two years that will be in excess of the budget caps. but there's another $160 billion that's stuck into something called an overseas contingency fund...