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U.s.-japanese security relationship should, he expects, get stronger under president trump. are there areas in which the obama administration let it slip, where do you see the relationship getting stronger? >> that is a good question. i think on the mechanics of the alliance, the obama administration actually did pretty good. they renegotiated it with abe, much deeper alliance than it was ten years ago. but it was the policies that the japanese were worried about, the ambiguity of the obama administration in terms of confronting china over its belligerence in the east and south china seas. tru...

Yaim jamie, ted cruz e-mailed the cartoon asking for a million dollars in the next 24 hours xs the question many people are asking, if he's so offended and i think he has the right to be offended, children are off limits, why is he redistributing this in a letter to raise money? is he keeping this alive? >> well, it seems to undermine his outrage, don. look, i'm a little bit at the center from the outrage industry. try as i might, i can't get as outraged as people have on the internet over this. i think the reeal concern is th double standard. if they did this to a democrat, there would be a l...

Something that has come up in the past couple hours, driven by the remarkable event of having the pope here yesterday. i was in boehner's office yesterday talking to some of his aide about the spending bill and there was no hint this was on the radar screen. bill: how did the republican caucus -- how did they literally lose faith in hip as a leader? >> i think it what you a number of thing. it's hard to pinpoint this. two years ago we had the government shutdown, something boehner himself said wasn't wise. then it happened. and you had folk on the right throwing these bombs at hip saying he's ...

You and i are talking about this. do you think the american public knows of -- [overlapping dialogue] >> apparently not. we are not seeing it reflected in the polling. is eric holder going to step down? not until barack obama tells him to stope down? >> the other big question is -- did he lie? let's take a look at what he actually say said on may 15, before the house committee. here's what he claimed. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for disclosure of material, that is not something that i have ever been involved in, heard of or would think would be a wise policy. >> er...

Said would have if we did nothing. this deal increased deficits over ten years by about $4 trillion. the other way of measuring deficits, which is more common in washington right now, is not measuring against what the law says it's going to happen, but against where we are right now, what would have if policies, tax code, nothing changed. measuring that, this deal cut deficits by $620 billion in ten years, something in that neighborhood. either way, the current policy is closer to the truth, but now we're getting into something where we at least have a common baseline on which to discuss what ...