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Hole bigger before we start to get out of it. when you say what are you going to do about the $5 trillion you just added on? they say we'll make it up by eliminating... loopholes in the tax code. so then you ask, well, which loopholes? how much? you know what they say? see me about that after the election. i'm not making it up. that is their position. see me about that after the election. now people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. what new ideas do we bring to washington? i give a one word answer. arithatic. arithmetic. if they say it's $5 trillion

To reduce the debt we'll have another $5 trillion in tax cuts. heavily weighted to upper income people. so we'll make the debt hole bigger before we start to get out of it. now, when you say what are you going to do about this $5 trillion, you just added on, they say we'll make it up, by eliminating loopholes in the tax code. so then you ask, well, which loopholes and how much? you know what they say? see me about that after the election. now people ask me all the time, how we got four surplus budgets in a row? what new ideas did we bring to washington. i always give a one word answer. arithme...

Appreciate it. c-span just put out a graphic about the various lengths of different bill clinton speeches at democratic conventions. the longest one was '96. second longest one was 1992. third longest one was tonight. but he was close in 2000. he went 40 minutes in 2000. 48 minutes tonight. the substance of what president clinton was talking about tonight was, he was going after the republican critique of president obama. but then he really did a broad-based critique of republican economic policies, contrasting it with his own. his own record. president clinton reminding the world that his adm...

In a debate for the next month with bill clinton, good luck. >> good luck. >> we saw the master tonight. the big guy. the big dog. bubba, elvis was back tonight. thank you. and by the way, we saw the real bill clinton. when we come back, the guy who does bill clinton better than anyone, the great darrell hammond will join us. some of the clintonisms. this will be fun. >> people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. what new ideas did we bring to washington? i always give a one word answer. arithmetic. [ applause ] . we know a place where tossing and turning have given w...

The floor and said good-bye, marjorie. they mocked the economic program of your guy. >> and pretended they love him. >> and i had the great pleasure of going into montgomery county six years later and saying margie margolis cost you an extra $35,000 on your taxes and your net worth increased by $23,000. >> up next, barack obama and big business haven't always had the easiest alliance. can he steal a page from the clinton playbook? this is "hardball." the place for politics. >> people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row? what new ideas did we bring to washington? i alwa...