judges reject the president s revised travel ban and both say they took the president s comments about islam into consideration when making their rulings. death spiral? the republican health care bill staggers through another committee, but under attack by conservatives. is it already on life support? can the house speaker paul ryan revive it? i ll talk to him live this hour. and deep cuts, the president unveils his budget blueprint. it would put more money into the military, but slash spending on agriculture, the environment, health, and housing. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news, an angry white house digs in to defend the president saying he stands by his unfounded claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. even after top lawmakers one after another reject the president s assertion, the house
were in the future. and so it reminds me of the shakespeare line. thousand protesteth too much. thou protesteth too much? i think miss bachmann needs a refresher course in shakes peer. while she s at a refresher on her own past. the washington post says bachmann voted against the se quest r cuts mainly because it didn t slash spending enough. she wanted more cuts. in fact, the post fact checkers gave her four pinocchios for her sudden change of heart. saying she was, quote, reinventing history. did mrs. bachmann seriously think we d cut her a break for this historical fiction? nice try. but we got you. is the better ch, he s agreed to give it up. that s today? [ male announcer ] we ll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. that was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again, and now i gotta take more pills.
at this point is irresponsible, and that if we do slash spending and balance the budget, jobs will come. it s all nonsense. in fact, every assertion is the exact opposite of the truth. tell us more about that. well, thank you, by the way, for the plug. i can t say that i mind that. but, you know, yes, especially the last point, alex. the last point, to me, is the most important. you have paul ryan going around, when he released his budget a couple of weeks ago, saying we re going to balance the budget in ten years and that s going to create growth. that s going to create an explosion of jobs. just like bill clinton did. no, no, no, no, no. it s exactly the opposite. it s the other way around. bill clinton created jobs, created growth in the economy, and that s what had the effect of balancing the budget, because we got so much more in tax revenues from those people who were working and paying taxes and from those businesses that are going great gangbusters and paying more taxes into
announcing three crucial lies that we have to balance the budget, that public investment at this point is irresponsible, and that if we do slash spending and balance the budget, jobs will come. it s all nonsense. in fact, every assertion is the exact opposite of the truth. tell us more about that. well, thank you, by the way, for the plug. i can t say that i mind that. but, you know, yes, especially the last point, alex. the last point, to me, is the most important. you have paul ryan going around, when he released his budget a couple of weeks ago, saying we re going to balance the budget in ten years and that s going to create growth. that s going to create an explosion of jobs. just like bill clinton did. no, no, no, no, no. it s exactly the opposite. it s the other way around. bill clinton created jobs, created growth in the economy, and that s what had the effect of balancing the budget, because we got so much more in tax revenues from those people that were working and paying
that we have to balance the budget, that public investment at this point is irresponsible, and that if we do slash spending and balance the budget, jobs will come. it s all nonsense. in fact, every assertion is the exact opposite of the truth. tell us more about that. well, thank you, by the way, for the plug. i can t say that i mind that. but, you know, yes, especially the last point, alex. the last point, to me, is the most important. you have paul ryan going around, when he released his budget a couple of weeks ago, saying we re going to balance the budget in ten years and that s going to create growth. that s going to create an explosion of jobs. just like bill clinton did. no, no, no, no, no. it s exactly the opposite. it s the other way around. bill clinton created jobs, created growth in the economy, and that s what had the effect of balancing the budget, because we got so much more in tax revenues from those people who were working and paying taxes and from those businesses