the concord coalition robert bixby will be here to discuss the impact of u.s. debt and deficit as well as max richtman to discuss the future of social security and medicare following the release of president trump's budget. that is all for today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. have a great saturday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> next on c

welcome back robert bixby. let me turn your attention to what we have on the screen. .org -- the debt clock.org. you are familiar with these numbers. your reaction? ago when thers concorde coalition started, it was a lot less. this is going up at an unsustainable rate. no one in washington seems to care or is doing anything about it. they seem to be pushing policies in the opposite direction and pushing those up. host: i want to put up a couple of charts you have put together. the green line shows tax revenue that the u.s. is getting. trajectory of spending has increased. the purple area, for those on television and we will explain to the radio audience, is discretionary spending. interest payment in yellow grow.ues to you have social security, entitlement programs, health care, and mandatory spending that includes defense. explain this. guest: this was developed by the kerry danforth commission. a bipartisan pair of senators to head of a commission for president clinton in 1994-1995. they looked at the current

the concord coalition robert bixby will be here to discuss the impact of u.s. debt and deficit as well as max richtman to discuss the future of social security and medicare following the release of president trump's budget. that is all for today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. have a great saturday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> next on c-span, vice president mike pence talking about his recent trip to south korea and the winter olympics, followed by lawmakers discussing ways to prevent foreign meddling in u.s. elections. then senator mcconnell and chuck schumer talking about ways to work together in congress. with vicenterview president mike pence. he talked about attending the opening surmise in south korea -- ceremonies to the winter olympics and south korea. this interview with mike allen is half an hour. ladies and gentlemen, please join the conversation