also with brian reedle, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. he served as an economic adviser to marco rubio and mitt romney s presidential campaigns. i m going to dispense with the stuff about donald trump saying it s not going to, you know, help the wealthy and not going to help him. i think we ve dealt with that. to what the congressman was saying. there s a simple matter here for fiscal conservatives. they ve liked to hold themselves up as don t put tax cuts in where you keecan t pay for me. it s not clear other than a big spike in economic growth how you ll pay for this. this morning, gary cohn said we ll see such great growth that we ll pay for these tax cuts. that s dodgy, at best. first, i ll tell you that background, long term, the budget problem, the reason the national debt is going to go from to $91 trillion is because of entitlement spending. just first point we have to
this is a huge budget problem for these places. jon: nolan, do you agree? going back to the original question, i think attorney general sessions may have been a bit of hyperbole in my opinion, but i don t think the budget is the primary issue as it relates to so-called sanctuary cities refusing to enforce federal immigration law. in fact, marielle gimenez in miami-dade county said they will cooperate. there s a difference between saying i ll cooperate, but it s going to cost some money and i want to talk about that and saying i won t cooperate at all because it s a political issue. enforcement of the law is not a political issue, it s mandatory, whether or not it s going to be politically popular will be a political issue, but enforcement of the law should be something that everyone does across the board and we all agree must be
i think that if we know that they re some of the worst, it is time to do something about it and to really do a deep dive in seeing we know that ferguson has a budget problem. they re having to put in all types of reforms because of the doj consent. is it a budget? is it bad decision making? it might be a combination of both. but now that we know there is an issue, it is time to do something about it. we know that there were different actions put out, again because of the forward through ferguson report. the commission released that report in the fall of 2015. but one thing that we know about that patricia just mentioned here is the fact that they had an issue of the money that they have. they waived $1.8 million in fines. this is after brown s death and because of the decree by the doj. but dismissed about 39,000 municipal court dates, signed up
today. in a short time later when asked about the photos, his spokesman was argued. he might have been on the beach but he didn t get any sun because he was wearing a baseball hat. technically he s being honest. he looks a little pasty to some but that s beyond me experti experti expertise. greg: he s lashing out at the media for asking silly questions. if i m the governor and we re having budget problem, i think i d sail the beach house that the public is paying for. anybody asking that? arguably, you re right. this is more going on here than simply the optics of this. this morning the governor went on television, speaking on telephone to the local fox affiliate in new york city to ridicule the journalists that took the aerial photos. he explained a week ago that he announced, no matter what
if you re wasting money, that s not a true dollar spent. when you look at the way director mulvaney and the president approached this budget, it was can we ask can we get more with the same dollar, can we find duplicity, can we find efficiencies, can we combine facilities in some cases at n.i.h. to enhance a better experience, whereby we actually have an outcome that s reduced savings. to assume that because you spend a ton of dollars, you re going to get a better outcome, with all due respect, when you look at the district of columbia, they spend by par more per capita than any other city in the country on education. and i think they have tremendous issues that are constantly being dealt with in their education system. so, to assume that just because you throw money at a problem it somehow magically solves is a very washington way of looking at a budget problem. thankfully i understand that. part of the issue is we re working as the director outlined a couple weeks ago, during