year that congress doesn t go along with our spending reduction. you mentioned mandatory spending. we have more reforms than any president s budget in history. what s happened for far too long, congress has blamed mandatory spending and increased discretionary spending by large degree. they continue to let a paradigm exist in this country that says every dollar in defense spending we re going to increase nondefense spending by a dollar. we don t think that paradigm allow us to be able to get our fiscal house in order. reporter: realistically, the administration is not going to get $8.6 billion for wall funding through this budget. are there other executive actions that you have been looking at in order to pursue despite the national emergency being declared and the treasury asset for the khur and the drug charges that you can use to continue to fill the additional funding that s necessary for the wall? right now we are focused on spending the money congress gave us in the last ap
just lastly back to giuliani regard to this tweet, it wasn t a directive to the attorney general, it was the president s own opinion. he was the one who said he didn t say we have the tweet highlighted, he said attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt. it s not like he said must, which sounds mighty reminiscent to me, jeff, who said on the would, wouldn t think. yeah. you know, again, when the president of the united states says to a cabinet member, you should do something, that skhur sounds like an ordered to me, whether it s on twitter or not. the interesting distinction the mayor was attempting to draw moments ago, oh, well, it was on twitter so it s more of an opinion rather than a directive. people can evaluate as they choose to. okay. all right, jeff toobin, thank