So carolyn senator tim scott. i don t think it s applicable but there s a slight analogy. when was bill clinton s highest approval rating? i think you are in congress at the time if i m not mistaken maybe not. your partner lindsay was. you he was there. after he got impeached. no question. what we are seeing without any question at the american people are now rallying to the cause of donald j trump. that s why you are seeing conservative democrats, republicans and independents going to donald j trump.com making contributions. the greatest day in fundraising and political history was today. why? because americans are sick and tired of watching a rigged justice system target their political opponent. here s what we ve seen. we had the most patriotic thing we ve heard in a very long time when donald trump himself said
The american republic. again, the guy is putin s dream. well, he certainly is. if you look at the fact that russia, and russian propagandists love promoting issues, ideas and people that actually tear america apart at the seams. it s been their game plan for a very long time, and donald trump does fit right into that. it is interesting, though, we are talking about donald trump again, because of what happened last night. peter baker, i remember dan mcglauglin saying, of the national review, he said, and i think he nailed it, when americans are talking about joe biden, republicans are winning. when americans are talking about donald trump, democrats are winning. that was his warning, as donald trump got back out and made himself part of the 22
Think of as government, outside of the social security, medicare, medicaid, defense. secondly, you and i both agree, and we have agreed since the obama administration, and i have since 1995 when i first got to washington, that we ve got a deficit problem. we ve got a debt problem. if you and i were to sit down and tried to hammer out a deal here, how do you how do you raise the debt ceiling and also look at the debt in the long term and try to slow down the massive increase in debt? let me just say, let me throw the first item on the table. let s completely get rid of every trump tax cut from 2017. let s go from there. sure. joe, you eluded to the ways in which everyday americans would be affected by this.
Getting in a car with your family, going on vacations, far more dangerous. all the transportation safety, getting on a train, far more dangerous. it would make the food that you feed your children at night far less safe. i mean, you can go down the list even, it s just those numbers are not possible. as far as the irs goes, it would make the irs even less responsive to taxpayers who are being audited or need a refund. the irs is already operating on 1980s technology right now. i bring that up. i want you to, if you could, do a couple things for me. first of all, add, tell americans how else their lives would be made more difficult, more dangerous if you slashed 50% of that 11% of the budget, which is all the things that we