pilot in the air national guard. thank you for your service. joe? you bet. going to go down a checklist quickly. military parade. good idea? bad idea? i think depends. bad idea if you re talking about tanks and icbm s rolling down, if it s a military review which is ranks of people saluting the commander-in-chief, okay. okay. what about the budget deal? obviously a lot of concerns. it busts the budget caps, it gives us moves us again toward record deficits, pushes us closer towards $30 trillion. it s going to unsettle the markets even more down the road. what do you think about the president s budget plan? well, it s i m going to vote for it depending on the details. we haven t seen the details, just top line, so i put that caveat out there because you never know.
president obama. we ve seen it again and again on issue after issue. with this republican party, they have such antipathy for this president and his agenda, they root for his failure. even if it s bad for the country. they ll do everything. even mistake the facts. here s what gop leaders said this week about government spending. this debt, it weighs on our economy today. we re not doing much about it. our country is on an unsustainable fiscal course. we have had record deficits. record deficits for the past five years? the senator conveniently left out some major information. under president obama, deficits have gone down five straight years. the fastest drop since world war ii. down $409 billion since 2012.
261 [ overlapping speakers ] bush turned record surpluses into record deficits. and that s a fact. but we have to go to a break right now. we can continue this when we come back. david, in a minute i want to ask you about proof that voters are getting tired of these antics, tired of being pushed around by the tea party. [ male announcer ] this is brad. his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when. [ man ] hey, brad, want to trade the all-day relief of two aleve for six tylenol? what s the catch? there s no catch. you want me to give up my two aleve for six tylenol? no. for my knee pain, nothing beats my aleve.
awesome economy from clinton. bush turned record surpluses into record deficits. and that s a fact. but we have to go to a break right now. when we can continue this when we come back. david, in a minute, i also want to ask you about the latest proof that voters, including many republicans are getting sick of these antics. they re tired of being pushed around by the tea party.
reporter: the white house is ratcheting up the rhetoric, accusing some republicans are acting like terrorists. we are for cutting spending, tax reform but we re not negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. american people, this is the gop. we have your economy. reporter: the democratic party is echoing that message, releasing this fake debt ceiling ransom call from the gop. clock s ticking. we hope you don t make us do this. [ dial tone ] reporter: republicans say that kind of talk is an outrage. it s completely unrealistic for the president to say we re not going to negotiate over the debt ceiling, that he thinks somehow that we should be just giving him another blank check to continue these record deficits. reporter: gop leaders point to new polls showing americans want the president to negotiate trading budget cuts for an increase to the debt ceiling. the president says i m not going to negotiate. well, i m sorry, but it just doesn t work that w