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The white house director was asked about it. >> he is not cutting medicare in this budget. we we're putting forward reforms that cut drug prices and it has the impact of finding savings. medicaid spending will go up every year by healthy margins. >> just to pull back the curtain a little bit, we're fact checking that because there is a lot of voodoo math that went into creating this budget. he said he would balance the budget in the court of eight years. it calls for taking 15 years to balance the budget. >> let me go to you, the president is being forced to overturn this legislation, but you ...

And we don't do that here. >> but isn't that all of it? without getting health care passed, where are you going to find the money? >> you're not. >> so you think this thing is going nowhere? >> nowhere. nowhere fast. you're asking me honestly. you're asking me is this going to go nowhere fast and i'm saying no. first of all, this is not a 2017 project, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your side of the world. i think there is a possibility that in 2018 there is some form of tax cuts. this is not a tax -- it says tax reform. it says tax reform at the top. this isn't tax reform, this i...

Down, doesn't he? more information than anything. they have all the information they want. and yet any poll you take -- and it's not just progressives or anti-trumpites if you will, not just the resistance. people want to see how this guy is making out. >> everybody wants to -- you want to understand the incentives behind whatever decision anybody or any proposal that's being made. let me say we already know what's going on here because one of the pieces of this tax proposal is what's called a pass-through, which means instead of having the individual tax rate, which at the highest end, which ...

I'd like to see -- i remember voodoo math. i was a numbers guy before i went into politics. i want to see their plan. fa if it's a reasonable plan, there might be ways to improve upon it. i don't see in the real world if you use reasonable numbers how you can guarantee coverage, guarantee the good things and somehow then still pay for that in a way that's going to lower costs. and honestly, this kind of period between when you repeal and they come up with replace, they're not even lending any credence to when they'll replace. you will see a number of insurance companies and others frankly pull...

That they have no alternative plan for them when captured other than what we just saw in that video? >> yes, lawrence, the rules of war and the geneva convention are definitely not at play here right now. and i think aman nailed it in the sense you have a variety of different groups. some of the numbers we see tossed around d.c. right now, this is what i call jihadi voodoo math. we don't know if some individuals are fighting for purely local reasons. there are others who came into syria for broader religious reasons, and there are others who are fighting for criminal reasons or perhaps other r...