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>> no president has done more to restart our economy, restart our economy than president trump. promises that he made while running for office. this great progress is threatened by our unsustainable national debt which is nearly doubled under the previous administration and now stands at more than $22 trillion. annual deficits are continuing to rise and will exceed $1 trillion a year. it's projected that interest payments on the national debt will exceed military spending by 2024. washington has a spending problem and it endangers the future prosperity of our nation for generations to come. th...

Washington doesn't have a revenue problem as you know. it's a spending problem. we ought to keep taxes low. >> neil: and you led this parade and i want to tip my hat to you on that. >> thank you. >> neil: four out of ten minutes think the tax cuts were a good idea. >> i don't think that's correct. i ask what do you think of trump's tax cuts. it mirrors his approval rating. you talk about lowing the rates for everyone, doubling the child credits, the numbers turn around quickly. that's what we find back home. americans don't want washington to take more of what they worked so hard to earn. >> n...

Were exchanges for money. does somebody donate to the inaugural committee and think they will get special treatment or access to the white house, as a lobbyist? >> kennedy: i think that's what everyone assumes when they make a big political donation. that's what they are buying. they don't just donate money to campaigns and pacs and everything else out of the kindest of the heart. and certainly not somebody who donated to barack obama. she started donating money to the president's inauguration committee. he wanted access to power. he was lobbying on behalf of sri lanka, and the question is, ar...

>> well, the trillions more in spending is mostly in defense, as you know, and the republicans have been very strong supporters of that spending. that's where we -- >> neil: not exclusively there. over the next ten years, it's going to add more as things are standing now than under barack obama, so obviously not having cast aspersions on democrats or republicans. but the problem is the spending. >> we have a spending problem but we have a greater paying for problem. >> neil: isn't the paying for problem because we're spending too much? >> if we can borrow and spend as we have been doing and th...

Tax revenues in 2018 the highst they have ever been. the problem is spending went up. we have a spending problem. i think that's what trump believes. the problem is frankly neither party is very much interested. democrats want to spend money on the best and social programs. we spentd more on both. shame on both of them. >> on unplace of employment really quick it stands at 3.9%. last time it happened it was a third year of budget surplus. what's different now? >> it is the ageing of population. you're too young to be a baby boomer but there's 79 million of