other countries have a commitment to meet 50% threshold and he wants to see them to at least that. some countries could do that by tomorrow and he s asking that they step up on the part of the solution. more burden sharing incident putting all the pressure on the united states. translator: compared to what others do in relation to their gross domestic product, it s not sufficient but we spend and that s why we have committed ourselves to increase our defense budget of 21.5% of our gross domestic product by 20205. back with the panel. germany is struggling to get to 1.5% of its gdp when it comes to defense spending. take a look at some of the other nato members. united states pumps 3.57% of its gdp into nato.
out of kentucky and if we prescribe marijuana for pain in the nerves, pain from other diseases, the chances that i would reach for the pen and describe opioids is less, the chances of prescribing opioids is less. heather: where it is legal. 20 million states and the district of columbia. we 20 pool this up i think. not the same as mainstream media drawing a message from this, let s legalize it and recreational use. the problem with recreational use is 3 times more likely to end up on heroin according to the centers for disease control. we 20 it can be a gateway drug. let s pull affected by the numbers because it is a fact what dr. mark siegel is talking about. 64,000 americans killed by drug overdoses in 2016, 21.5% spike
neil: not common sense. more like calm down sense. today s interest rate hike, the one everything to go everyone is freaking out about. i hope you are sitting down for this. the latest quarter point hike brings the key rate up to a range between 1.5 and 1.75%. that s how much banks are charging to land federal reserve funds. that would be up to 1.75%. you know what the historical averages for this rate? about 5%. do you know what i got up to around 1980, when i was born. [laughs] try more than 20%. do you know what the prime rate was back then? 21.5%. do you know what 30 30-year mortgages were going for, north of 20%. you can imagine why my wife and i thought we were financial
elected the tea party began taking it easy. we re good to go. i think this will reenergize it i hope it reenergizes it because we have got to get our spending under control. we are $20.5 trillion in national debt. it s going to balloon up to 21.5 to 22 by the end of this next fiscal year this current fiscal year. it s unsustainable. we have to get those people involved. martha: how do you think this happened? there were some reports i read that indicated that president trump sort of sent the signal that it was okay to allow this to happen because he really wanted the military spending, which is a campaign promise that he made and was that the priority and you have to go back and deal with whatever cuts you might be able to deal with counsel th down the r. is that your understanding of how this worked. he sent the signal after the senate said we re not going to change our rules. we re going to still rely on the 60 vote rule. we still have to rely on democrats. and, this could be avo
why not address this agency well? remember, during the original debate about this bill beforepassed the senate, rubio and mike lee, the senator from utah, had an amendment to do exactly this. it fell short. they ultimately did both vote for the bill. the republican establishment wants to get them onboard and try to find a way to address their problem. the main thing that changed since that vote two weeks ago is that once upon a time the 20% corporate tax rate was untouchable in this bill. it was the president s red line. could not be moved higher and already it s going to be moved to 21%. rubio s argument, why can t it be 21.5% to make the deal done for middle class tax cuts is politically astute. the question about votes. nothing in the reconcile bill suggests bob corker, the only republican no vote will suddenly vote for it. if wrubio and lee vote against