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Surprise you. that may have worked a little better than this. now i think they're stuck with figuring out incremental things they can do to fix the problems with obama care. >> the worry was that you would have the death spiral. that insurance companies would say hey, let's get out of this. >> they would vote to repeal it, say it's not happening for a couple years. >> the sequester, the notion that people would work together if you force them to work together, i'm not convinced they would have will a bill, two years later. >> but there might have been a lot of pressure, and there may have been...

54 billion in the coming fiscal year. for the pentagon, that would be about a 10% increase in defense spending. good idea? >> i think it is really important that we increase defense spending because it has been artificially kept low by the sequester, by these artificial caps that reduce defense spending below what was necessary to keep the united states safe. but here's the problem. at the same time, the trump administration is proposing massive cuts to diplomacy and development, more than a third cut to the state department budget. that would be a huge mistake. >> tell us why because the a...

Growing within the republican party and within the military intelligencia saying mr. president you can't cut the state department funding and argue that you're increasing the defense spending and make america safer. the two go hand in hand. i'll be as curious about republican reaction as anything else. >> it's a shift. i don't know how you describe it, michael, the shift that says all right, there are a lot of people you can agree or disagree whether you want more military. experienced people say they do need to upgrade the military and a lot who don't but the concept of reducing our soft powe...

There has been some griping over the course of the years, but eventually people came to and said we got to move this forward. what's really happened recently it's a very important point. a lot of these house republicans, they come from districts where amtrak plays no role. so essentially their entire model is it doesn't affect me i don't hear about it at home, i don't care about it, it's another big spend government boondoggle that we do not need. if you talk to republicans from the northeast, a lot of them push back on their more conservative counterparts and say hey, this actually matters a ...

Spending i would cut domestic spending, the exact same amount. that separates some conservatives in this race. there are conservatives several who are running or may run who say, oh increase defense at all costs. i will increase defense spending but only if you pay for it by cutting other stuff. >> if you cut a penny across the board, does that mean you cut medicare social security? in other words, in real 2015 dollars, next year, it's going to be a penny less across the board with any exception? >> i think what you have to do is throw that out and say, we either do it 1% across the board or m...