assistance. $3.1 billion. egypt combination of economic and military. 1.4, 1.5. iraq another billion. jordan, pakistan, kenya. you think that those kinds of aid recipients, that that kind of aid should be reduced? no. i think those are critical investments that we have to maintain, wolf. no question about it. you won t be able to pay for the kind of increase president trump is looking for. there is not enough money in the foreign aid coffers. he doesn t want to touch the entitlement programs because it was a campaign promise he made. he is trying to look elsewhere and there isn t enough money elsewhere. i hope people like secretary mattis will stay true to his word of a couple of years ago and explain to the president that it is short-sighted to cut foreign aid to these essential countries that we need to help in the fight against isis. not just foreign aid. he wants to cut the spending of the environmental protection agency. that s another big target for reduced spending.
they are very busy people. so they will have people on the scene now that were in the area but they ll be sending those team all the local responders are there. you know the police fire and their investigators as well. and so and the federal rail administration also out of washington, d.c. will be sending people to help in the investigation. and they are the folks, of course that try to encourage and try to get money available to these trains to these railroads, for things like the updates, the positive train controls, the crash worthy cars improvements to the tracks but rail is very expensive. there s never enough money to go around. peter? there really isn t enough money to go around. and that s you know, both matthew and mary have mentioned, i mean amtrak has been under budgetary strains for close to 20 years.
greta: a new poll shows the majority of voters have a blunt message for uncle sam. leave us alone. just released fox news poll asks voters which of two messages they would send to the federal government. 54% say they would tell the government to leave them alone. 35% say they he would ask the government to lend them a hand. dick morris, author of the book screwed joins us. nice to see you, dick. what do you make of these poll numbers? a big change. in 2008 i don t know if fox news asked that exact question but pugh research asked something like that and found a strong interventionist view. i think the way pugh phrased it was would you like to see the government do more even if it cost more money or see it do less even if it means you get less services.
a statewide political official yes, an advisor to the romney campaign. greta: and architect of sb 1070. clearly there are legal concerns but there are political considerations here as well. i think the administration s point has always been we would prefer to focus on these criminals and others who have records who should be sent home first versus the younger people who do not have criminal records and who perhaps have just not shown up and caused problems. and, yes, that is political and a hat trip to the hispanic population in the country who is clearly leaning in their direction. the other fly side that any one might argue is no matter what you think about immigration the folks across the street at the capitol aren t talking about this. and there isn t enough money enforce the laws or policies no matter what. until there is is a broader conversation about that you know the fights going to happen. greta: everyone runs from this topic on capitol hill. it is one of those thin
character and persona of mitt romney. accusing him of outsourcing jobs to china. a charge to ridiculous even the washington post ran an editorial calling it bunk. they are looking at the voters and making a decision we can just trash this guy and put outread slow kates and television ads and call him a felon and run out the ads that suggest he killed a woman with cancer through his own indifference. we can do these things and create such a negative reputation and image of mitt romney that he can t win. i also think there are a lot of people concerned about the fact that we do have an increasing amount of people in america who are dependent upon government for most of their livelihood. and that people want to protect as rush alluded to, want to protect what they have got. i have a slightly more optimistic view. i think a lot of people you hear the statistic one out of every two voters get most of their money from the government. that includes people who paid into social security and tha