is real. trying to debunk the myth that we can t spend. you can spend but phil, you got to cut stuff first! he is representative from the 17th district in illinois which is includes decatur and also moline i do believe and it s not the first time he s said something a little on the crazy side. i believe it was the conclusion of march of this past year, he said this about the constitution. i don t worry about the constitution. i believe that it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. i don t care about the constitution. great! the interesting thing about that debt comment, he would have been able to say that a couple of years ago and nobody would have picked up on it because most the american public didn t care about the national debt. now, that s like the top three issues after the economy, it might even be number two is corn
before something happens. who s lazy? i think everybody is. i think we re all lazy. no, i think it s just a matter of time, you know, americans are lazy. the fort hood report was released the day of the haiti earthquake and we didn t talk about it in the media. the american public didn t read it. i read it one night on a friday night because i didn t have a date and it was, you know, 78 pages long and there was it was full of excuses. the american public needs to wake up. the government needs to wake up and eventually something bad is going to happen. we can t just say we got lucky every single time. i think the feds need to wake up. i don t know if the american public we need some answers. that s the problem. i think tamara is right in one way. i mean the guy zazi who tried to do the backpack bombings was almost like a sleeper story. the other story we re trying to avoid, why are you not dating on friday night? what s wrong with america? straight ahead, the media keeps
digital manipulation, cyber, et cetera. but i think the american public didn t really realize all of this until relatively recently. certainly 2016 brought it to the fore. so i think the media would be very helpful to people if you say, this is how propaganda is done. in other words, you are being manipulated and you don t have to say by whom, because a lot of sides do it. but to stand back and instead of saying it s your guy or against your guy, just say you are being manipulated by facebook postings, twitter, et cetera, and you have to be a more sophisticated consumer of that information. let s show a president trump tweet, whether it s propaganda or not, he said earlier, the fake news media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. max, do you want war with
he was speaking, david, to his base more than he was addressing the republican majority in the senate? it s interesting. to me he had two messages. one was that, you know, donald trump ran as this change aegt, and we re going to hold him accountable. he goes into a far right policies that the american public didn t really support during this election cycle broadly. i think he is trying to establish some markers. he said, dana, this is not reality tv. clearly a dig at donald trump who used to work in reality tv. this is reality. you had a chance to sit down with chuck schumer for a rather candid interview. give us the highlights. you re right. they do know each other. they re both new yorkers. donald trump was a frequent and early giver to chuck schumer s
what the president is going to do. in fact, he ll be traveling on friday to try to sell this plan. as you may remember in the past, this white house has been criticized for not explaining to the american people exactly what they re trying to do. they got a lot of criticism for proposing something that a lot of the american public didn t really understand so this is a shift, certainly. the president expected to get on the road, sell this to the american people starting with the day after this speech. kristen welker, thank you so much. want to go ahead and bring in kentucky democrat john yarmouth, a member of the house budget committee. good afternoon to you. thank you for joining us. we just heard from kristen welker, we know a little bit about what s in this plan, based on what you ve heard is the plan big enough? well, it may be big enough depending on what the elements are. i think kristen really hit on the most important point, though, and that is what the president is going to