Address. he s got to address health care, he s got to address this budget proposal that he s got. he s going to have to soy somethi say something a little more detailed about thisbepredicting what donald trump is going to do at a public appearance. it s a fool s game. it s going to have to be something different because of what you said, the atmosphere, it s going to be fraught with tension and it s the country s lawmakers. eyes will be on to see if there s a different donald trump available. nicolle, i want you to react to something donald trump said this morning. watch it with us. we have to win. we have to start winni inning w again. when i was in young in high school and college, everybody used to say we never lost a war. we never lost a war. you remember. and now we never win a war. we never win. we don t fight to win. we don t fight to win. we either have to win or don t fight it at all. nicolle wallace?
Up. they don t make sense. they re just higher projections of growth and that they ve actually done some math to get to that level, so that s problem number one. problem number two is he needs to sell these defense this budget, the skinny budget that he came out with and these increases of $54 billion in defense spending. now, we ve gone down this road before, if you recall. the idea that we needed to have cuts across the board. the only difference is defense under the sequester was included in the cuts. now we re talking about a $54 billion increase. the number of cuts that hs going have to make across the government in order to pay for that whouithout increasing the deficit and without increasing taxes, the math doesn t add up so he s going to have to convince some people that they ve actually done the math and he s got proposals that can work economically. nicolle, you spent a good deal of your time talking with trump voters, talking with donald trump s base. yeah. is their
sometimes it s hard to you know, i spent enough time with his voters to sort of get a little bit of the translation an understa and understand what he s trying to say. he s filled his cabinet with generals who are really the only humans who give solace to people who are worried about how erratic he s been as president. that s the sort of thing i hope a general will pull him aside and say, you don t say that. you don t say that when you ve got men and women in yemen dying on your order, in iraq serving this country nobly, in afghanistan, we still have special operations forces and sure we have them in syria, too. it s just an unfathomable thing to say. yeah. with that, we will thank our panel and take our first break in our broadcast. thank you, all three of you, for coming on tonight. and coming up, he stayed silent during the obama administration, but now president george w. bush, nicolle s old boss, is weighing in. his thoughts on donald trump when the 11th hour continues.
Tonight, our own ali velshi who shows up every day on the job without complaint. in washington, eli stokels, white house correspondent for politico. dit ditto. welcome to you all. niccol er nico nicolle, you were out the longest, you will get the first question. true or false thirks, this administration will be at minimum distracted and at most consumed with investigations. i would change the at most with paralyzed. i was in the white house, i think the first investigation from waxman s committee, i think was thehairman of the house oversight committee, was over contacts to enron and what that means if you re a white house staffer is you go through all your e-mails and any time there was any reason that you mentioned anything about enron in the context of cheney s energy plan, i mean, it is all-consuming and you re talking about someone who doesn t so this is all republican-on-republican critique.