chart imitates life. today we learned that the u.s. budget deficit is the smallest it has fwhn eight years. mazel tov. the great steve bennan put this together at maddow blog. you can see we re back to where we were under president bush at the start of the great recession. feel free to clip and save this for the holidays when your crazy uncle who washes fox news all day tries to tell you that the deficit is spiraling out of control. that is a myth. the deficit is shrinking. very, very fast. so there. . i m always there for my daughter. for the little things. and the big milestones. and just like i m there for her, pacific life is there to help protect me and my family so i can enjoy all life s moments. pacific life. helping families for over 145 years achieve
a bit of a theme tonight. the first is shark jacks. like jacks, but sharks. the other thing is, as seen on tv, as seen on this show, gefilte. two giant jars of gefilte. from the hillary clinton story. about the carp. right. okay, there you go. we re also going to need to bring in steve bennan from mad doe blog. say hello, steve. good evening to you both. good evening, steve. good evening. all right, jason, ready for your first question? indeed. from tuesday s show. tuesday was the anniversary of the collapse of lehman brothers which started the whole financial system collapsing at the end of the george w. bush presidency. on tuesday s show, we reported the names of the 2016 presidential contenders who worked for lehman broth es at the time of its collapse, who were they? was it a, donald trump and carly
of the united states. the correct answer was picl and peter is right again. jason. jason is right again. it s peter and the pickled peppers. you re obviously a ringer, jason. no matter what we call you, we can t get you off your game. one last question. on last night s show, we finally found out who came up with the idea of splitting the republican presidential candidate s field into two different groups for the first republican presidential debates. who finally fessed up. who finally admitted responsibility for that as we rored on last night s show? was it a, the republican national committee, b, c-span. c, the presidential debates commission or d, that rascally bernie sanders? it was the rnc. steve, you have the answer for us? let s check last night s
they bring with them. and what do you teach? i m not in the classroom anymore, i m a program coordinator. i coordinate what used to be the vocational ed program. very cool. very cool. i always wanted to go to okinawa. i ll look you up if i do. if you get two or more questions right, you win a fairly useless tiny cocktail shaker. can you show that off? it s pitiful, really. if you get all of the questions right and you need extra credit, or if you only get one question right and you need a consolation prize, we ve also decided we can send you something random we found in our offices. what is the random office swag tonight? it that s red oven mitt with mitt romney on it. it feels like it s out of date now, but it might not be in the future. sorry, we also need to say hello to the disembodied voice of steve bennan.
c, writing messages on dissolving paper, or d, training to defeat a lie detector test. she trained to defeat the lie detector test. i remember the dissolving paper. i remember the shopping cart. then there were the codes she wrote down. i m going with go with i think the husband and wife team did the shopping cart deal. so i m going to go that s the one that was not. steve, do you have the answer for us here? that was a tough one, but she s right. it s a. yay. and you had exactly the right reasoning there. that s what made that one hard. the other spies who the same dude exposed did do the shopping cart thing. all right, julia, do the math, did krista win the prize? yes, she wins. well done. i won t take the top of the shaker. it s useless enough already. that would make it completely impervious. yes, you and johnny manziel, well done.