including the president s chief of staff, who are against deficit spending. in far the because of the tax cuts for corporate and individual tax cuts that were part of the administration s own reform package. you re seeing it s going to take a while and some domestic cuts to sort of break even, if you will. but, you know, i think 2020 s a pretty dominate theme here the way things are shaping up. the president is looking forward to clashes with some of the most prominent names in the democratic party and he ll get them with this budget. $2.7 billion in spending cuts, we understand part of this proposal. david gregory, trillion, sorry, trillion in spending cuts. i have a hard time believing, though, there s this deep concern about deficits in this white house based on what i ve seen the last two years. right. and i think that s actually become a more bipartisan conclusion, that as tic cheney said as vice president that reagan flau reagan proved that deficits don t matter.
your boss s boss s boss. she could have been in trouble for some of the things kasie was talking about had not president obama at the time stepped in. i think, look, the obama administration made the decision to look forward, not backwards. we made the conscious decision to affirm that torture sil legal everywhere, wherever it takes place inny form. but at the same time there was one single law enforcement investigation, the durham investigation that recommended that came forward without recommending charges. so we made a very conscious decision not to hold to account people like president george w. bush, people like vice president tic cheney, people like john yu. and so i think the argument that you will hear is how can gina haspel who was levels below all those people be the first person held to account when other people who were involved in this program assumed high levels within the cia and even broader, more broadly throughout the executive branch under president obama?