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>> 30 seconds. go ahead. >> sometimes you have to beat them, but the deal with mitch mcconnell was a complete victory for the tea party. they had been running against this for 10 years. we lost that economic argument because that deal extended almost all those bush tax cuts permanently and put in place the mindless cuts we still are dealing with today that are called the sequester. that was a great deal for mitch mcconnell and a terrible deal for america. >> you heard from the republicans that the reason why the tax cut had to be pass is they had to pay back the donors. they said those words. ...

To me for saying that he's a big-spending liberalment and he's always been a big-spending liberal. always believed in that. here you have a president who says i'm not going to touch entitlements, i'm not going to do what it takes to save social security and medicare despite the fact that they are growing wildly out of control and are going to go bankrupt and now he calls the sequester "dangerous." the sequester. the one thing, rick that washington, d.c. has done in 20 years to show a little fiscal discipline, the republican president of the united states calls that "dangerous." what do you do ...

By the sequester and spend another $300 billion over the next two years. roughly divided between military spending which republicans very much want to see, that is why you had suggest mattis at the white house today and domestic spending which democrats push for. and they've got a lot out of this. some big ticket items including $6 billion in additional money for the fight against opioid abuse, $20 billion for infrastructure, $4 billion for v.a. hospitals and a number of items that democrats in the senate had been fighting for. now all packaged together as part of this broader bill that would ...

We voted to do it. and we're going to work out how we're going to do it and let you know gradually so we don't surprise you. that might have worked a little bit better than this. now i think they're stuck with figuring out some kind of incremental things that they can do to fix the problems with obamacare. >> the problem with the repeal though was the worry that you actually then would have the death spiral that insurance companies would say, hey, let's get out of this. >> but they would vote to repeal it and say it's not happening for a couple years. >> the sequester, the notion that people w...