okay, austan, i'll go to you first. you know i appreciate a good back and forth with you, you ar- always a gentleman. >> we have a fun time. >> dan: we do. i tell the producers, oh, great, austan is here tonight, it will make for a grade back and forth. austan, simple question. do border walls work as a deterrent a or not? >> no -- i mean, you got 60% of the people that come into the country illegally who fly here, they come to an airport. i don't thinkll that the wall works, no. >> dan: of course, a plane is going to fly over a border wall. i think that is obvious. but these are overseas or a different issue. i'm talking clearly about illegal border crossings on the southern border. just quickly, if you believe is a deterrent or not. would you -- if you are going to cross the border -- >> at all, i don't think is a deterrent. >> dan: you would rather cross a border where there is a wall rather than where there is no wall? i >> no, what happens with the wall, as you know, they get a ladder that is 1 foot taller -- >> da

neil: oh, common, austan. you're a very smart guy.is party is blue when it comes to addressing our fiscal resolve big time. by the way i'm not apologist for donald trump. he has botched it big time because he is not leading -- >> you're wanting to blame both sides. you want to blame both side. neil: absolutely i will. >> but you cannot excuse if you know there is aging population, that will lead to higher social security and medicare, why are you cutting revenues by more than $2 trillion? neil: all right. so if you cut that, if you cut those revenues, you don't think we would have anything approaching the debt levels that are building now you? think it is all on the tax cut? >> i think the tax cut added more than $2 trillion. neil: all right. all right. i want to get you back. meantime have a great holiday. but we're all going to hell in a basket with these numbers, you realize that? >> you too. neil: let's get read on this. entitlement reform, to austan's point, whether we will have the resolve to go after spending that is kind of in

austan, when you have pelosi, you have mccaskill, you have brown, do you agree with them or disagreeith them? is the left going too far left or are they wrong? >> you had three different statements in there. i thought nancy pelosi's statement, i did somewhat agree. if the media is going to spend all of their time talking about mueller and investigating the president and not about giving health care to americans or protecting the aca or talking about policy, i agree with pelosi. i am really surprised that you guys took comfort from what jerry brown said, because the whole context of jerry brown's interview was him saying the republican party has gone crazy and the president is so far outn of line that it doesn't provide any check on the democrats, and so it unleashes more extreme forces within the democratic party. but the whole context was about the republican party.es >> jason: i don't think i find comfort in governor brown. do you think they are going to take their own advice? these 80-plus investigations the democrats have already announced. you think they're going to do that and

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we have austan goolsbee. of the things we saw yesterday as we observed the markets during the news conference, they particularly reacted to say we will be on autopilot on the balance sheet. he drew a firm distinction on how the fed will use the balance sheet on rates. do you agree with that approach? >> you can choose your poison however you want. i think the balance sheet, they wanted to put it on autopilot and i think they are right to put it on autopilot. remember, in the way back machine, to the days of the taper tantrum and others, when the fed has expressed that it will have to -- have discretion and choose what to do with the balance sheet each meeting, it just adds a whole extra layer of volatility and uncertainty. everybody says but what are we going to do with about see this time? they want that thing to be on autopilot. but you do need to remember, i think, that that is a tightening of monetary policy. while that is happening, it is tightening monetary policy. so the rate rising environment is happ

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joining me now for reaction, former obama economic advisor austan goolsbee and radio talk show host larrylder. when you've got nancy pelosi, governor brown, and claire mccaskill making the case that the left is going to far left, the media's paying attention to things that don't matter what is your take on it. >> when you have jerry "moonbeam" brown lecturing the democratic party that they've gotten too far to the left, maybe they've gotten too far to the left. this is a governor who probably thinks global warming is a bigger peril than al gore does, he wants single payer, he wants a bullet train to nowhere and he's lecturing at democratic party going too far to the left. i think it's a sign of the apocalypse. regarding claire mccaskill, this is a woman who's saying we've gotten too involved with identity politics. when she first ran, she said george w. bush let people die on rooftops during hurricane katrina because they were poor and black. she played the race card and maybe saying they play the race card, democrats will stop lying to women, women make less money doing the very same wor

. >> dan: joining a cell with reaction is austan goolsbee, national security analyst morgan ortagus and florida congressman matt gaetz. austin, let's go to you first. you know i always appreciate a good back-and-forth with the will, you are always a gentleman. >> we have a fun time. >> austin, simple question on this. do border walls work as a deterrent or not? >> no, you have 60% of the people that come to the country illegally. they fly here and come to an airport so i don't think the wall works, no. >> dan: of course the plane will fly over the border, but visa over stays are a different issue. i'm talking about illegal border crossings on the southern border. do you believe -- i don't think it's a deterrent. >> so you would rather cross the border where there is a wall rather then where there is no wall? >> what happens with the wall as you know as they get a letter that's 1 foot taller and they climb over it. >> dan: but you would need a letter so that's the deterrent. >> the question is why did donald trump change his mind from 24 hours ago? the president has not been resolute. >>

you know, last night, i had the debate with austan goolsbee, who is a nice guy.a simple question, if you were doing this and wanted to cross the border and enter the united states illegally, tucker, do you go where there is a 20-foot wall or do you go where you can just walk in? people are like astonished by the question. like i never really thought of that. listen, the democrats are really good, tucker, at focus group test and talking points. one of the things they do is say a wall won't stop illegal immigration. it's not designed to stop it. it's designed to deter it. we don't have a military to stop wars. we have a military to deter wars. you don't put an alarm system to stop every single burglary ever. you do it to deter it. illegal immigration is a crime. i carries with it severe penalties. narco trafficking, sex trafficking. i was in the secret service, counterfeit money brought in from south america. the potential for terrorism. and also, one more thing, it's not a knock on legal immigration. building the fence or the wall to deter illegal immigration is j

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