i believe is in the interest of the american people to bring forward on the floor of the house. let s focus on solving and getting this investigation to a conclusion and answer the questions it brings. all right. i know you had a chance to meet with the president s top economic adviser, larry kudlow, earlier this morning. did you talk about the federal deficit? because it s absolutely ballooning right now under president trump and the republican leadership in the house and the senate. take a look at this. the congressional budget office, nonpartisan, as you know, now expects it to hit $1 trillion by next year. how do you explain that to voters who sent republicans to washington to shrink that deficit, come up with some sort of balanced budget? this is why i disagreed with our leadership on the recent spending bill, where i voted against it. i think we did the right thing in tax reform to grow the economy. we re seeing economic growth, job creation in america we haven t seen in deca
solution to the problem of the national debt. but wolf, what we need to do is get the spending under control. this is a spending-driven problem. to my colleagues on our side of the aisle, let s roll up our sleeves and work across the aisle to spend the causing problem causing this deficit crisis in our time. do you support borrowing $12 billion from china to help u.s. agricultural to help american farmers deal with the tariffs issued that the president has himself put forward that has hurt american farmers? well, i appreciate the offer of assistance. bringing this disruptive trade policy to the table is something i support the administration on because for too long have we let this trade imbalance take hold and these unfair trade practices keep us from a fair and level playing field. i m supportive of the administration s actions and recognizing that in the short-term, there are going to be consequences to that disruption. at the end of the day, this policy will bring long-term g
question or two. that s the president s right, he can answer or not answer. this particular time, he decided not to answer. although, you saw he was irritated by the nature of the question, sensitive subjects involving michael cohen, for example. that was that. she was then called in by bill shine, the deputy white house chief of staff, the former fox news executive, and sarah sanders, the press secretary, and told she was not allowed to go to an open event in the rose garden later that afternoon, that the president had just organized with the european commission president. that s really unheard of. i spent seven years as a white house correspondent. if you re an accredited white house correspondent, you re allowed to go to an open event like that. and this was not out of the ordinary at all, except the banning of her from that event. she was asking questions, news of the day questions. of course the president decided not to answer. he often decides to answer. some of the aides, the
davis to release that audiotape of a conversation he had that he secretly recorded with donald trump, just before the presidential election, sounds to me that s a declaration of war and there s no opportunity for michael cohen now and donald trump to work together. i think you d be surprised. it was certainly a declaration of a battle. we ve seen the president and others, including kim jong-un, you know, sort of get into it together and then the president decides to sort of back off ping what s happening right now is michael cohen is sort of firing shots and seeing what that gets him. it seems unlikely that at this point he s cooperating. i doubt prosecutors would be very happy about the release of that tape and all the talking he s doing. i think right now he s probably just looking for a team. but his goal would be to get, what, a pardon from the president of the united states? there are lots of things the president could do.
reporters out. the president is often interested in answering the questions. yesterday he was not. but clearly the topic of michael cohen was something that set him off, so they tried to ban her from this. i asked the same questions of the president at the rose garden event. he didn t answer either. the thought of banning someone has backfired on this white house. a credentialed media person. bill shine, the deputy chief of staff, former fox news executive, he was asked about this earlier today. watch this. did you ask her if we ever used the word ban? i ve seen it on lower thirds. what word did you say, bill? what word would you use? when you ask her if we ever use the word ban, i will answer that question. what s the word you would use? if you ask her focus now. you ask her if we ever used the word ban. why don t you tell us what