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The oval office. he was quite literally the man apart. while his presidency routinely gets low marks despite some great achievements and great prescients on matters like energy policy and fossil fuels, he has lived easily the most exemplary post-presidency in our history. it started way earlier than he wanted to in 1981 and in those intervening years, he has travelled the globe fighting to eradicate diseases, talking about peace, observing elections and writing over 30 books. put it this way, our taxpayer money paid for his college education at annapolis. can we agree that it was a better retu...

Blame popular safety programs and perhaps try to slash those programs. of course, because democrats have a majority in the house that's not going to happen, but i think the budget that the white house put out does show that this five percent reduction in domestic spending is a signal of their priorities and the president is also complicating things by renewing this fight over the wall. ultimately, we will see what congress does. they control the power of the purse. >> what happens then? of course, democrats will not give into broad spending programs that are their priorities. after all, they c...

Nobody wants to tell their supporters -- >> there's adults in washington? >> yeah, i mean -- >> i've given up. >> douglas is making a very important point. you ultimately need growth to balance budgets. that was the magic of the clinton period. you have the deficit down by growing. how do you grow, particularly at the end of an economic cycle? recovery cycles tend to last about a decade. we're over ten years into this one. the trump administration will say, hey, we said we'd get higher growth last year and did. they still didn't meet their target. that was because of the sugar high of this tax...

Domestic programs as well as foreign aid, anti-poverty programs, as well and the border wall, phil rutger is the issue here because it's firing a shot right at the house democrats. >> it really is the word that kristen just used, battle is what this is all about. it's a political document and for president trump it establishes his priorities and sets up a fight with congress that could go on for many months now and it's the fight that the president and his advisers would like to have. they think it works for them in a political context as he gears up for re-election and tries to draw contracts...

>> reporter: after the head tax was rescinded at the council meeting this afternoon, city leaders said they'll start working on an original solution d start working something out with the state legislature to address the homeless crisis. right now only los angeles and new york city have more homeless people than seattle despite a huge increase in spending programs over the last several years. thousands of residents said it's not about the amount of money they have but how they're spending it. >> sandra: dan sprier, thank you. >> bill: we have a big hour ahead. our a-team's ahead and reaction a...