brent, you are on with maya macguineas. caller: good morning, maya. guest: good morning. caller: earlier you were talking about spending and you mentioned barack obama. i just wanted to make sure that it was clear denot come into office and just do a lot of spending. but that he was left a $1.2 trillion deficit by george bush, and he did cut it in half. the rest of the deficit that's about half a trillion dollars left is over the next two years with obama care but obama care hasn't been fully implemented. we still have 17 to 19 states that haven't implemented it and don't take the money. so the republicans have done everything they can to hinder barack obama from bringing us to a balanced budget or bringing us close to it. host: okay. let's let maya macguineas respond to that. guest: i think the first part of what you are saying reflects what i was saying. the president came into office with one of the worst economic crises we have ever faced in this country certainly in modern times and the fact that the deficit went up was a reflection of that hauge downturn and the cos

opening ceremony at the smithsonian national museum of african american history. 45 minutes, maya macguineas, president of the committee for a responsible budget, will talk about the campaign issue in the presidential race. zirin on hown, -- partisan politics influence the u.s. supreme court. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] >> members of congress have recessed until after election day which is 39 days away. before leaving, lawmakers were able to pass the stopgap spending measure to keep the government funded through early december and pass legislation allowing families of the victims of the september 11 terror attacks to sue saudi arabia, overriding president obama's veto of the measure. the lawmakers were unable to do anything else. some blame on a divided government with the democrat in the

. >> maya macguineas. final note, one topic discussed during the special debate coverage.ing with money and politics here, some of wall street's biggest political donors are writing off the presidential race. our kate kelly joins us with more. kate, what have you found? >> sarah, a year of stunning avoidance on the part of some megadonors and donald trump seems to be taking the biggest hit so far. key figures who normally give millions to presidential candidates have dialed back contributions dramatically or focusing solely on the house and senate. this phenomenon seems to be happening a little more with conservative donors than liberal ones given those guys seem to be showing up in force for hillary clinton. casino magnate sheldon aid elson and his wife were nearly $100 million in overall contributions. tens of millions of that went to mitt romney's pac. but despite a may editorial in which adelson endorsed donald trump, he has given the candidate nothing so far, a scenario that may change based on reports this week but that we haven't seen evidence of change yet. hedge f