Paramedics, i was sort of not quite paying attention to anything else. all right. ben, i want to thank you for making time, and i truly hope your elbow is okay. i i it s not my pitching arm, so i should be okay. okay. ben jacobs of the guardian, who you just heard his account, he says, of being assaulted by the man who is running to represent montana in the united states congress the day before he will be on the ballot in the special election there. greg gianforte, who did this in response to a question from ben, according to ben and to the audio that we just heard, about the cbo score on the ahca. ben jacobs, i hope you get a clean bill of health. thanks for making time tonight. i appreciate it. thanks. i m joined now by jennifer r rubin and stephen ratner. we were going to talk about the budget, but i feel like,
$2 trillion more debt over the next ten years than the last obama budget. so it is a complete i ve followed these budgets for i think 40 years since i was a reporter, and this is the most egregious use of numbers i ve ever seen in my entire time. all right. jennifer rubin, and steve ratner, thank you both. i want to do some updating on the breaking news story out of montana that we brought you at the top of this hour. ben jacobs, reporter for the guardian, who was in montana covering that was at an event with greg gianforte. he s the candidate running in that at-large congressional special election that is tomorrow. he s the republican candidate running against rob quist, the democrat. we played you audio of ben jacobs at this campaign event walking into a room where an interview had been set up with a tv crew and asking him for reaction, gianforte, to the cbo score on the ahca. and you heard the audio, and you heard ben say that he was body slammed by the candidate. i want to give
Debate, we have to base it on real numbers. this budget presumes a goldilocks economy, and i think that that s a very difficult thing on which to base a budget. the trump budget is also taking heat for a massive $2 trillion math error which uses the same pool of money twice for two different purposes. amidst a special counsel investigation into possible collusion between the president s campaign and russian meddling in the 2016 election coupled with mounting evidence the president may have committed obstruction of justice by trying to impede that investigation, republican lawmakers would love nothing more than to get back to their domestic policy agenda. but that agenda may carry an even greater political cost than the president s russia scandal. for the first time in the trump era, democrats just flipped two state level seats winning special elections in new hampshire, and new york state. we re now less than a month away from the special election in georgia s sixth congressional dis
Trillion. i was actually on the call when mulvaney briefed the press as i guess a member of the press in my spare time. and, in fact, what they did was they did not count any costs from the president s $5 trillion to $6 trillion tax cut plan. so, in fact, there s 5.5 trill dollars call it, of lost revenue that is nowhere in this budget. in fact, what this budget comes down to very simply is $3.6 trillion of proposed spending cuts, most of which will never get through the democrats in the senate who have a block on a lot of this stuff, and $5.5 trillion of tax cuts that as bernie sanders said heavily go to the rich. in fact, this budget they claim will be balanced in fact creates $2 trillion more debt over the next ten years than the last obama budget. so it is a complete i ve followed these budgets for i think 40 years since i was a
Just out today. 54% of americans approve of the aca, which is the highest i think it s ever been. so as people have seen these numbers, have gotten to learn about the ahca, the republican alternative, have learned how this would all work, it is actually working, i think, very substantially to the republicans disadvantage. i think you re going to see a lot of republicans running away from this bill and running away from these kinds of changes. jennifer, the significance to me of this being a question about the cbo score that prompts this response, i mean, you know, he does not want to answer a question about the cbo score under the ahca. i think that s clear from the audio. right. i want to make one point about the cbo score that i hope doesn t get lost because of the news coming out of montana and the general uproar over the budget, which is entirely justified. paul ryan, the president of the united states went to congress, went to the american people and said, oh, this amendment,