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Droves for him? steph, i think clearly taxes, tax reform, repatriation of all these dollars that are offshore, cutting a deal possibly with the democratic leadership and the republican membership as well to come to some sort of potentially comprehensive relief concerning taxes, cutting the corporate tax rate, the position the president has, many democratic have as well, and working on an infrastructure bill. we know american infrastructure is a problem. stimulus didn t really work. there wasn t an infrastructure bill in the first place. a real deal in the context of a tax bill that lowers corporate tax and brings dollars from offshore back to our country is a great place to start. i would love to see him go to the inner cities and talk about a new deal, i read the other day, maybe this wasn t from a trump person, declare maybe some dezaeser areas in the country concerning our inner city. you see baltimore, other inner ....
Fast enough. proof that massive government spending, particularly debt spending is not the solution to our economic growth problems. well, ted cruz tweeted, quote, well, five years in, it looks like president obama s stimulus did actually create jobs. unfortunately, they re all in the irs and nsa. what a cute guy he is. and mitch mcconnell wrote, five years later the stimulus is no success to celebrate. it s a tragedy to lament. a tragedy. 40 straight months of job growth. the stock market has gone from 6,000 to 16,000. and the economy has grown 11 straight quarters. well, the stimulus didn t hurt the economy. the real political drain in the economy has come from republicans on capitol hill, shutting down the government. threatening to default on our debt. that cost billions. they re worse than do nothing. they re a do worse congress. joining me is dana milbank from the washington post and michelle bernard. michelle, i want to start with you because i have no idea what you re going ....
And the democratic party has really diminished the influence of the hawks in this party, the democratic party, i believe. do you agree? yeah. you re fighting this? you re fighting it, aren t you. well, look. as a democratic party a less hawkish party than it was ten years ago? stupid wars, but i think they re very internationalist. nothing wrong with being internationalist. the question of why did we go to iraq? iraq was idiotic. and every democrat agrees with that. they didn t at the time. i think joan and i and barack obama were the ones that didn t. and we were right. thank you. and i worry we re not making the best possible effort to avoid one in iran. and i worry about people who don t make the best possible effort. joan, thank you. because i know where you stand and i often stand with you. matt, thank you. a noble fight here. we ll have more of the moderate versus the liberal wing of the democratic party. this is hardball, the place for politics. my mother ....
Democratic party, i believe. do you agree? yeah. you re fighting this? you re fighting it, aren t you. well, look. as a democratic party a less hawkish party than it was ten years ago? stupid wars, but i think they re very internationalist. nothing wrong with being internationalist. the question of why did we go to iraq? iraq was idiotic. and every democrat agrees with that. they didn t at the time. i think joan and i and barack obama were the ones that didn t. and we were right. thank you. and i worry we re not making the best possible effort to avoid one in iran. and i worry about people who don t make the best possible effort. joan, thank you. because i know where you stand and i often stand with you. matt, thank you. a noble fight here. we ll have more of the moderate versus the liberal wing of the democratic party. this is hardball, the place for politics. that puts the puck, horsehide, bullet. right where it needs to be. coach calls it logistics. he s a gr ....
Straight quarters. well, the stimulus didn t hurt the economy. the real political drain in the economy has come from republicans on capitol hill, shutting down the government. threatening to default on our debt. that cost billions. they re worse than do nothing. they re a do worse congress. joining me is dana milbank from the washington post and michelle bernard. michelle, i want to start with you because i have no idea what you re going to say. but i just want to say what i don t understand is this. if we had had an explosion in wealth, which isn t necessarily well distributed, we know that, like we ve had in the last five years with the stock market, the dow, which is good for everybody with a 401(k) who is watching has gone from 6,000 up to 16,000 and may still be climbing. the republicans would be jubilation, they d be going crazy. they d say this is proof of everything we have ever said. and yet they sit there and say this has been a terrible five years. unemployment is down to ....