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host: john and herndon, virginia. independent line. caller: good morning, pedro.tion to you -- good morning. my question to you is asked someone who has voted for the cares act, $1 trillion to $2 trillion in cost, along with republicans and democrats, my question is, as someone who has talked about reckless spending earlier in the show, under what circumstances do you think it is ok for congress to pass bills that are chileans of dollars in size? -- trillions of dollars in size? guest: you said under what conditions should congress pass legislation that is trillions of dollars in cost, that i understand that correctly? -- did i understand that correctly? caller: that's correct. guest: the national debt now sits at nearly $29 trillion roughly. it is the biggest national security threat we have. you ask any of our current and former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. they will tell you that. there has been, as i mentioned, over $4 trillion already spent by the biden administration. there is $1 trillion. $1 trillion sitting in the federal government that is suppo