Some ways struggling to bounce back from the covid-19 pandemic. i think there is a need there to do that. but that said, you know, you already got bernie sanders now coming out and saying, okay, we re going to do the two-track approach and i m going to do the budget and it will cost us $6 trillion. that s a huge number. moderate democrats said, i don t know about that. including senator jon tester with me just a couple minutes ago. there s a lot, i think, of back and forth and politicking to be done here before we see the end of the tunnel. i want to pivot to voting rights. the manchin framework here. everybody is on the same page. he wants to make election day a public holiday and 15 consecutive days for early voting and gerrymandering and require voter i.d. with alternatives like utility bills so it s not just your driver s license but a proof of residency, if you will, with a utility bill. let me play what stacy abrams
Served on the foreign relations committee i chaired middle east subcommittee, i m passionate and interesting in what s happening internationally. you re going to run on your credentials you re going to have to go after hillary clinton. where is she the weakest in your opinion? i think on judgment. i ve been talking about the iraq war. we were both there in 2002 we made a huge mistake, one of the biggest in american history, and i did my home work. now, with 4,000 dead americans it s going to cost us $6 trillion, that shows a lack of judgment. now, we re hearing about the clinton foundation donations at the same time, she s making decisions that are just poor judgment. how to you process the foundation situation? eve it was contrived to make money for the clintons? do you believe any of those things?
Where is she the weakest in your opinion? i think on judgment and i have been talking about the iraq war. we were both there in 2002 when we made that huge mistake. one with of the biggest mistakes in american history and i did my homework and now with 4,000 dead americans it s going to cost us $6 trillion in taking care of these brave veterans that are coming home. that showed a collosal lack of judgment and now we re hearing about some of these clinton foundation donations at the same time she is making decisions as secretary of state again judgment of just poor judgment. now how do you process the foundation situation in do you believe it was contrived to make money for the clintons that she erased her emails to cover that? do you believe in any of those things or was it just as the clinton people say a mistake? we just made some mistakes? well, the book is coming out may 5th. and some some of the stories about the canadian uranium mining company and the russians we re just le
Giving us $6 trillion in debt doesn t get asked a single question. dirty air, dirty water. because there is a compliant, subservient serving press core that says this is the story this, is incredible. look what you ve done for us here. at the same time, numbers plummet. our country s future is in down this, is an opportunity for more than 50% of americans saying the first amendment means something. the second amendment means something. there is one strike on the first amendment. third strike, are we out? in this country? i said media is dead in 2008. now i say the extension of the press office.
Political drive. our track record for the longer term is not bad. we have actually tended to reduce our debt at least relative to gdp when the economy was strong. we tend to increase when the economy is weak, but that s what you should do. so this is not a hard call. as long as we have 4 million people who have been unemployed for more than a year, this is not a time to be worrying about reducing the budget deficit. give me something that looks more like a normal employment situation, and i ll become a deficit hawk, but not now. so help me out here. over the past 12 years, 10 years, 11 years, george w. bush spent us $6 trillion in debt. over the past four years, barack obama, under the obama administration, an additional $6 trillion in debt. the president extended the bush tax cuts because tax cuts are keynesian, and he believed that he believed that and they pretty much said so that if they didn t extend the bush tax cuts a couple of years back in 2010, that the economy would