this type of budget talk and demand things being in or out, especially such as divisive as this border wall? i don t think it s unusual at all for the white house to be intimately involved in the negotiations. in the end it has to be law and have the president s signature. they will be molding it from the start. what s difference about this president is his propensity to negotiate in public, to take positions via twitter and other things. i think folks on capitol hill find that unset inning witling. they did this to allow the next president to put his or her mark on it to make sure his priorities can be reflected in it. there s an agreement that there will be increased spending. the real question is the border wall. and my rule of thumb is, it s easy to figure out what they have to do. and that s what will get done. they don t always get to do what they want to do. and i think the president would
aarp uses this report. premiums would rise under this new republican plan. more than half of your income for health care. they pay more because it charges older americans four to five times what younger americans pay. aarp is on the offensive. you heard paul ryan talking about the cohort. interesting term. budget talk. okay. we get it. we hear you. it should be a tough needle to thread here. the trump administration revised travel ban suffering another setback in court. derrick watson wants to clarify the scope of the ruling. that means the 90-day ban on six
conversation we are going to have to have. long-term entitlement reform. i pressed last night on this and it was a similar answer. a wait for the in may. we may see a semantics change when it comes to entitlement reform on the long term. not the people who are in or near retirement right now. jon: there s some people who are thinking with the budget talk with former members of congress along with tom price, the director of health and human services now, that there might be a push toward tightening the budget and coming up with budget cuts that might be palatable to the president. is there any indication that that s happening? i think it is happening behind the scenes. i don t think we have of the details yet, but i do think it s going to happen. think about it from speaker ryan s perspective. here s a guy he s worked with for years on budgets, on
religion. and in fact, one of the weirder things that struck english speakers as weird, used the term evildoers to describe terrorists came about to find a word in arabic that would not be sensitive to arabic and back translate into that english. that was him. that was the authentic man. jonathan alter, the budget talk that the president gave today was the most incoherent budget talk ever given by anyone who s taken the oath of office as president with all of those asides that trump does when he s giving a speech, no real specificity. he doesn t seem to understand what the republicans in the house in the congress are doing as opposed to what he talked about during the campaign. well, you know, you got to look at the people he s appointed and the bad news is he appointed a guy named mick mulvaney, a tea party congressman, to be head of his office of management and budget and the indications are that the president s budget is going to
virginia that budget $157 million. the state tallying how much they ve spent, but they re confident they ve blown through that budget. in washington, the usual budget talk is muted today. the government shut down federal officers. cnn erin mcpike is in d.c. good morning. reporter: good morning. washington d.c. is shut down, bus services even suspended. you see why. roads are in really bad shape behind me. also because the federal government is closed it means there are no cars really outside the capital. all the hearings not going on. a lot of people came into town for those hearings, and they re stuck here because the airport and run ways are shut down. as the run ways are shut down at reagan national airport as well. those run ways in boston are open, but many flights are