america. they are even investing billions into jamaica. they bought fishing rights in the bahamas. brian: it s pathetic. while they build up, infiltrate and creep up, we are begging to talk to them while they send spy balloons over our country. while they set up spy stations 100 miles from our coast. we are begging for another meeting and it looks like after jake sullivan meeting and a meeting with william burns, the cia director it looks like we will have a blinken meeting with his counterpart in china pathetic and makes us look weak. this is the story that caught everybody s attention. the pentagon freaking out about a possible war with china. we give you $880 billion a year to build up your defenses and you are not ready to fight? the defense department has got to get its act together big time. she how we match up missile for missile, plane for plane, ship for ship. armed forces double it. more people. that s a standing army. doesn t bother me. we have national guard for that re
push the envelope, push, push, push, and we need to push back and we haven t done it. neil: do you think they follow the debt ceiling fight and back and forth, general. one of the ramification there is an increase of spending for defense, 3%, and with inflation it s not an increase, it s actually a cut and they re seizing from that, well, the americans aren t serious about their defense or building up for something, if we do something, what do you think? well, look, first of all, the defense budget would be with $880 billion, pretty significant, but i think what they re looking at isn t that fight or the defense budget fight. what they re looking at the way we treat our military. our military has now taken diversity and put it up top and have to remind people the military s goal is simple, it s to deter and if deterrence fail, you fight and win our nation s war and i don t think that philosophy in this administration is a primary role it s not a secondary role,
in medicaid is a cut. i don t think that s the defense that you think it is. here is what jake actually said. according to the congressional budget office, the health care bill that passed the house would cut $880 billion over ten years from medicaid. i know that the trump- administration is excited medicaid will go back to the states where they can have more control and be more efficient. without question 880 billion fewer dollars is a cut. joining us now to discuss is cnn s jake tapper. jake, what did you make of that, watching that interview, hearing your name be invoked so many times by senator scott? first of all, rough morning for anybody that was playing the jake tapper drinking game for eight times in five minutes. ten minutes. that s first, it was incomprehensible, to be honest. there are so many issues here. one is senator rick scott proposed sun setting all federal
that would have cut insurance from 24 million americans according to the cfo. he brought up an interview with my colleague jake tapper pressed a trump official on the cuts. let me read you something jake tapper said. this is back when republicans were proposing reducing the cost. what jake tapper said. what jake tapper said. and jake tapper said that is a cut. if you talk to jake tapper, why did he say it was a cut if republicans do it? did the same fact-checkers look at what jake tapper said? why didn t jake tapper say that $880 billion cut in medicaid is a cut. it s going to reduce life-saving drugs. i understand you say it has an impact on drugs. that is different though than saying that they cut medicare when they are saving money on the cost of what those drugs cost to americans. okay. but then what why did jake tapper say that $880 billion cut
let me read you something jake tapper said. this is back when republicans proposing reducing the cost of medicaid. i know that trump administration is excited that medicaid will go back to the states where there is more control and can experiment and be more efficient. but without question, $880 billion is a cut. so is it a cut when republicans do it but not a cut when democrats propose savings? what you re referencing, senator, i looked into this. we talked about it the other day. even the senior vice president p for aarp s government affairs said this is fact checked repeatedly and shown to be a lie. in fact this bill saves medicare nearly $300 billion by lowering the price of drugs. only drug companies say saving money is a bad thing. what about what jake tapper said? good he was referring to a reduction in costs in medicaid.