mick mulvaney used to be a deficit hawk and this is not kind to the deficit. how far do you feel about that. nothing could be further from the truth. my concern for the deficits is what drives all of this. you will never balance the budget in this country again at 1.8% or less growth. it s just not going to happen. we have appetite in this country for certain level of government. it s been clear to me now we are not going to fix that through spending alone. we can fix it through slowing the rate of government. but growing the size of the economy. it s that economic growth of healthy american economy that machine that creates wealth for the rich, the middle class, and the poor alike also creates wealth for the government because we get the money from taxes. if we can grow the economy, can i grow the revenue side of the equation and help balance the budget. brian: there you go. mr. office and management and budget catch up with you on radio shortly. always ready to go. he says he lost
banjo free and easy down the road i go. steve: what a loly shot looking down at the white house 1600 pennsylvania avenue. on that north lawn you can see if you look really carefully you can see brian kilmeade. brian, go ahead and wave. wave, brian. you and mick. brian: we don t have an overhead shot. sorry. steve: we just saw you. brian: we both looked and saw the guy on the patio. we were wondering who is that? we don t even know. ainsley: i saw that guy on the patio. i are standing there with mick mulvaney the white house budget director and, brian, he is from south carolina. which means i m freezing this morning. brian: he can t handle it. his blood is to thin. we have a heater here that s heating mostly him. mick mulvaney a lot of pressure on your shoulders because by this friday you say the budget has to be done. tell the people why it matters. why does friday matter? friday matters for a couple different things. the president and i think most folks in the republican party a
states drugs are two, three, four times more expensive than they are in other countries. ainsley: he also talked about hillary clinton when she was over in london. steve: and he hopes she runs again. ainsley: he said she is thought supporting the national anthem, supporting the protests, he said that s why she lost in 2016. steve: um-huh. so brian is going to be interviewing the president in about two hours. get ready, brian. you won t have to bark at him by the way. that s good. brian: i won t. we have omb director mulvaney at the bottom of the hour about the chances of tax reform and why he is so mad at the senators. ains avians thank you, brian. we can t wait to hear that interview. we will play some of that tomorrow. he will be on the radio show today. jillian has headlines for us. jillian: let s begin with a fox news alert. a major win on the war on terror. u.s. backed forces taking over isis s home base in raqqa, the capital of syria. marv symbolic blow to the terror group whic
but they handled it very, very well. steve: it s an important and tough business. commissioner, thank you very much. always a pleasure. thank you. steve: coming up on this tuesday, president trump prom misted to cut taxes for the middle class. what does the white house define as middle class? what are the numbers like? white house budget director mick mulvaney knows all about those. is he going to join brian on the north lawn live coming up next. how far would a guy go to get away from a wife who might nag him from time to time? what this guy just did made him famous. i get knocked down but i get up again you re never going to keep me down i get knocked down but i get up again you re never going to keep me down. tech: so you think this chip is nothing to worry about?
various savings and all of the departments that are gathered around the table which is everybody. i knew my cabinet to work with director mulvaney to fight these spending cuts, fight for them and make sure that they happen. we want to make the departments as lean as efficient as possible at the same time, going to be departments with lots of art. one thing we re going to be looking at very strongly his welfare reform. it is becoming a very big subject and people are taking advantage of the system and that other people aren t receiving what they really need to live and we think it s very unfair to them. but some people are really taking advantage of our system from that standpoint and we are going to be looking very, very strongly there at welfare reform, going to be a big topic under this administration and it has started already and we have a lot of recommendations that we are going to be making and you ll be hearing about them very shortly. the other thing we are doing