director mulvaney and secretary mnuchin are talking about the plan going forward. that's a conversation as i mentioned that the president is going to have a conversation in the next several minutes with house and senate leadership and will be a topic they will discuss. reporter: an increase in the deficit is something that the administration would find acceptable on tax reform? mr. spicer: if there is a conversation that is going to go on with congress how to proceed and it's not at this time, i'm not going to get in front of that discussion. reporter: who it was that changed the president's nato speech taking out the article five language, she would check on that. you didn't make that commitment, but sarah did. do you have the answer? mr. spicer: i don't know. reporter: can you confirm that is in fact, one happened, one speech and a different one was prepared late in the process and the speech took some of those who were aware of the first speech by surprise? mr. spicer: the president's speech talked about article 5. we were at a nato article 5 commemoration. the

but last time around, mick mulvaney with a 20-point win. as the republicans have gone 4 for 4 in the special elections, we've seen it in montana, 15.8%. down to plus 5.6%. we saw it in kansas where more than a 30-point victory for the republicans last time around last year down to 6.2% in the special election. so what does it mean? we have to look at the balance of power heading into the mid-term elections next year and know that the democrats certainly have ground to make up. they have to start turning these close but no cigar races into actual victories. they don't have to win them all. the magic number is 218. so for the democrats to flip that over and get control of the house, they need to net a total of 24 seats next year. neil, back to you. >> neil: thanks, connell. so closeness of these elections, particularly some of these special events and the recent ones by a couple points, is that a message to republicans? that they shouldn't get too ahead of themselves here? aaron mcpike with us here. what is the sense? relief on the part, i gu

and mick mulvaney omb director. office of management and budget, spoke to this and play it and get your reaction. >> we're no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs and the number of people on those programs, but the number of people we help get off those programs. david: so it's more compassionate to try to get people off of welfare than to put it on it. >> i think that mulvaney speaks to how trump gets it backward. how is he helping the native americans saying you will have access to what which is debilitating. i think he's helping immigrants by saying you will not have access-- >> wait a minute, john, he wants to stop that or at least cut it back. >> precisely. david: the availability of welfare for immigrants. >> you know, no, which is a great thing for immigrants. trump once again gets it backward. why are you helping americans by saying you're going to get access to something that's not good. and i think in a broader sense we've got to say, we do not have an immigration problem, that's th

director mulvaney has said that they want you guys to do it by august. do you believe it has to be done by august? will the democrats help raise the debt ceiling before they are given a concrete day? using a reference for october. >> bipartisan policy center. >> everything we are hearing is that it should be done before we leave the end of july so they could be ready for september because it could happen in august. that wehe reasons is need to do it sooner because many people are thinking of letting entities in our country to get a big tax break from trump for next year. so the revenues are not coming in as fast this year as they should. happens, it isis how much the health revenues come in. people are making decisions about their balance sheet relating to something they think is going to happen relating to rates for next year. >> they have a history of crying wolf on this. >> you might as well do it anyway that would be in front of it instead of behind it. we are not there. i think the senate leader has spoken to this point very clearly. we are not ther

the other lower profile race tomorrow is for mick mulvaney's old seek in south carolina. georgia district, trump won it less than two points. trump won the south carolina district by 18 points. so, democrats are sort of quietly hopeful that they might turn out a win there or at least a good run there. because they love their candidate there in particular. but democratic party nationwide spent almost no money in south carolina to help and on paper it looks like it would be very, very, very hard for the democrats to flip. both of the special elections tomorrow in georgia and south carolina, the polls will open at 7:00 a.m. eastern time and close at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. which means by this time tomorrow we should be getting at least an early idea about how those races are shaping up and who might eke out a win but honestly i canceled the plans for tomorrow night and will be here late. ahh. where are mom and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, you just woke up! ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, b

mnuchin, secretary kelly, and my budget director mick mulvaney. i want to thank jared and chris, adviclavell. i want to thank ivanka for working so hard on it. our goal is to lead a sweeps transformation of the government's technology that will deliver dplat i canally better services for citizens, stronger protection from cyber attacks which we were just discussing. that's a big problem, there is no question about it. we'll solve the problem, and up to a trillion in savings for taxpayers the next 10 years. over a trillion. we are embracing big change, bold thinking and outsider perspectives to transform government and make it the way it should be and at far less cost. my administration has taken historic steps to modernize critical i.t. systems and make government more transparent. as an example, you are seeing what we are doing with the airports. with all of the billions of dollars that have been spent on planes flying in the wrong direction. we are getting a change. we are getting that whole system fixed. money wasted over the last 6 or 7 years.

republican mick mulvaney held that seat comfortably for, i think, three terms. but before him, as recently as 2010, this seat in south carolina, house district 5 was held by a democrat named john separat sprat. it has been a sleeper race compared to what is really the marquee event tonight. this is the race in suburban atlanta, georgia's 6th district. this is the seat that was previously held by donald trump's controversial health secretary, tom price. now democrats in contrast to that south carolina race, democrats have thrown in as much as they could to try to help their democrat candidate in georgia 6, john of of. running against republican georgia former secretary of state karen handle. tonight is actually a run-offelection in georgia. there was a first round in april. 18 different candidates ran. jon ossoff won by such a margin that he almost won the seat right there that night. for want of 2 percentage points in april, he was ultimately forced into tonight's run-off by him and karen handle. it's interesting. read a lot of the nationwide commentary on this

mick mulvaney, budget director.pleasure and thanks for being on the show sir,. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: yes, sir. ashley: it is not easy to make the budget interesting but he speaks very clearly, to the point. it shows he enjoys what he is doing. it is a good combination. stuart: he is articulate. ashley: he is. stuart: he knows his stuff and he is personable. you can have a conversation with the man. ashley: it's a wonderful thing. stuart: amazing. what a country. what a country. what a concept. check the big board. we're up only just, a gain of two points. look at that level, 211,145. that's the -- 2,101,145. that is the stock market. look at the bond market. interest rates, represented by the 10 year treasury yield all way down to lowest level of this calendar year. ashley: what does that say? says investors really not sure about this economy. they go to the relative safety of the government bonds. means prices for bonds go up. yield goes down. that is what it is telling us. stuart: also suggests maybe fairly s

mick mulvaney, i think they can draw more people into the workforce.dichotomy in policy will get more important in the next 6-12 months. i think that has to be resolved. i would guess that the fed would continue with modest rate increases as a little bit of a compromise given the differing views of the data. matt: do you expect wage growth to come up? you did say that technology and demographics are holding it back. will that change? will continue to hold that consumer price growth. in the case of a wage growth, we have already seen some early straws in the wind of a wage growth. the last 12 months. small to midsized businesses have seen some wage growth. i think you will see more of that. the numbers are quite hard to interpret because you are trying to interpret small percentage increases that there are enough signs that is beginning to happen. so i am fairly confident that the outlook of the u.s. is not too bad. anna: jim, thank you so much for your time this morning. matt: we are going to be joined by former u.s. congress -- commerce secretary. an

and the reason i raise is this because mick mulvaney last week was quoted as saying several folks inouse have said they are interested in pushing a larger tax bill that would add to the deficit. that's mick mulvaney talking about deliberations here about what this ultimate package would look like. mark wasn't really sure yesterday about how to guide us through whether revenue neutrality is a key priority for the administration in tax reform or not. can you assist us? >> part of that is because there's a discussion ongoing with congress. director mulvaney, secretary mnuchin and others, gary cohn, are working with congress to talk about the plan going forward. so that's a conversation, as i mentioned at the top, the president's going to have a conversation in the next several minutes with house and senate leadership, and that will, i'm sure, be a topic they will discuss. >> so an increase in the deficit is something that the administration would find acceptable -- >> well, i think i would put it more like this, if there is a conversation that is going to go on with congress about how t

i'm grateful to the president and director mulvaney for their trust and confidence. i'd first like to thank senator hatch for taking the time to be here and for his generous introduction. working on the judicial committee i learned about law making and music making and living a good life. it means a lot to me to have the support of a distinguished member of this body. i would like to thank the members of the committee and their staff for taking time to meet with me. i appreciate your graciousness to discuss regulatory ploilolic. i look forward to working closely with members on the committee on issues relating to regulatory and information policy. if you'll indulge me i'm recognize my family. i'm here with my husband and my two children. allen's unwavering support as made it possible for me to consider the demands of public service. my father is here and has believed in me in every stage of my life. i remember my mother who died too young of cancer and wish she could have been here to share this day. my parents arrived in detroit in a middle of a snowstorm. they alwa

people know about john all soft but wheno ossof, mick mulvaney was tapped in south carolina -- do youuse of cards"? it's the seed that frank under word represented. athie parnell was literally goldman sachs, a veteran of goldman sachs. he was there this january and february, but he left to run for office for the first time in south carolina. i spent time with him and with film her feet, the front runner for the new jersey governor doyle race. is this because of steve cohen? or is a correlation becoming stronger? max: listen, i think the steve mnuchin is not the fit, but very importa steer -- stevens. i think that you can go back to the middle of the 20th century and find connections between goldman sachs executives and politics. if you want to be generous about it, you consent save there are people at goldman sachs who care about public policy and want to give back by running for office or being appointed to positions like eric cohen. but it's realistic to point out that connections to government are an important part of what makes goldman sachs successful. you cannot find people from

this is to replace rick mulvaney who -- or mick mulvaney who left a seat held in upstate south carolina to become budget director for the trump administration. but that district is considered safe for republicans. so neil, as you can imagine a lot less money being invested in that race. back to you. >> neil: thanks, jonathan. a long night ahead of him. he's young. he can handle it. much has been raised about the money that's been raised in this race. a record amount for the democratic challenger. better than $23 million. most of that coming from outside of the district and the state of georgia itself. to gerri willis when has been crunching the numbers. hey, gerri. >> well, this election has been compared to no other because it's the most expensive in u.s. history. more than $50 million invested. at stake a suburban atlanta seat that used to belong to tom price. the district has consistently voted republican for decades. the last time the seat was in democratic hands, 1946. white house spokesman sean spicer this afternoon discounted questions about whether the race is a referendum on tr

>> both secretary mnuchin and director mulvaney have weighed in on this. this is something we'll work with congress on. so we're not there yet. something our team will continue to work with them on. jessica. >> thank you, sean. two questions, number one when we heard the admin administrator talked about the exit from climate accord is not a signal that the pus wants to disengage from climate polly. what steps are they taking and as you well know climate is key part of cooperation between the u.s. and china. will you try to replace that very important intersection of interests with something else? will you continue to do some technological cooperation on clean energy for example with the chinese? do you have any thoughts on that? >> well this is a decision that was just made yesterday afternoon and i think the president is going to gauge both with domestic stakeholders he mentioned in the speech yesterday. he looks forward to talking to leaders in both both parties on a way forward, reasonable ways we can engage. we can talk to world leaders that is a proce

if it's a clean lift like mnuchin wants, or if like mull vanny wa mulvaney wants tax concessions. al franken will join us. he has a new book out "giant of the senate." he reflects how the senate has changed since he's been there. how difficult it's been to be taken seriously as a senator after being on "saturday night live" for a number of years. he also sits on the health committee. >> becky, great stuff. lock forward to it. "squawk box" in 12 minutes time. >>> up next, the first trading day of the month with city's steven wieting. they call him the whisperer. the whisperer? why do they call him the whisperer? he talks to planes. he talks to planes. watch this. hey watson, what's avionics telling you? maintenance records and performance data suggest replacing capacitor c4. not bad. what's with the coffee maker? sorry. we are not on speaking terms. tha...oh, burnt-on gravy?ie. what's with the coffee maker? ...gotta rinse that. nope. no way. nada. really? dish issues? throw it all in. new cascade platinum powers through... even burnt-on gravy. nice. cascade. >>> good morning. welco

but do you agree with mick mulvaney that you are not yet in your final form? right, stephen. the house may have passed me, but now i go to the senate, and the whole thing starts all over again. it's a long journey, but i can't wait to be a law! >> stephen: bill, you should know, a lot of people don't like you. >> they don't? but, stephen-- ♪ i'm just a bill, yes i'm only a bill ♪ and i'm sitting here on cap-- >> stephen: we know. listen. >> oh, that's right, we established that. ( laughter ) >> stephen: now, bill, i have got to ask-- have you even read yourself? >> well, no, i thought the congress would read me. >> stephen: well, they didn't, bill, and if you become law, 24 million people could lose their health insurance. >> what? that's terrible. well, at least i cover pre- existing conditions. >> stephen: no, you don't do that, either. >> my god, i'm a monster! who created me? >> stephen: bill, i don't know how to tell you this, but donald trump... is your father. ( laughter ) >> no! that's not true! that's impossible! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: re

listen to what mick mulvaney had to say about what the jobs report says about the overall economy. >>he jobs numbers may reflect industry, capital sitting on the sideline waiting for us to repeal obamacare and tax reform before they commit to the economy. they like what they see out of the president. you've seen that in the stock markets. in terms of making the investments that drive up the job numbers, drive up the gdp numbers, they're waiting on congress to act. that should be his motivation that they need to get back to work. >> so shepard, you heard mick mulvaney say, it's up to congress as they come back from recess. they'll be back here next week. on tap for congress, healthcare, budget and tax reform. most likely we'll see some kind of healthcare legislation out of the senate in the next couple weeks. we expect to see a budget resolution before august and tax reform in the fall. >> shepard: they're going to get all of that done in that period of time? >> i didn't say that. >> shepard: i would be holding my breath. thanks, adam. five people died, 44 others hurt in shootings last

i'm grateful for the president and director mulvaney for their trust and confidence. i first like to thank senator hatch for taking the time to be here and for his generous introduction. working on the judiciary committee for then, german hat i learned about lawmaking and musicmaking and living a good life.f it means a lot to me to have the support of such a distinguished and respected member of this body. i'd also like to thank the members of the committee and their staff for taking the time to meet with me.r i appreciate your graciousness and the chance to connect and discuss issues about regulatory policy. for those of you i did not have a chance to me, i hope that we may have an opportunity after the hearing. if confirmed, i look forward to working closely with the members of the committee on issues related to regulatory and information policy.it if you'll indulge me i'd take a moment to think my family. i'm here today with my husband, alan and my two children, isabella and ezra. there unwavering support has made it possible me to even consider the demands of publ

i am humble that president trump and director mulvaney asked me to serve. i know the quality of the men and women who have previously served in this particular role, and i want to contribute to that long line of distinguished public service. my career has readied me for this moment. i spent over 12 years working in the house and senate with a specific emphasis on budget policy. i was a republican policy budget director, writing its r resolutions and writing on policy. i went onto be the director of -- all of these roles afforded me the opportunity to handle a wide range of policies issues and manage policy development processes that ensured a wide variety of viewpoints were heard. that is very much the job of the director of omb, to develop a process that ensures the president and his advisers receive all of the best analysis so that the best decision can be made. i also have experience managing a large organization. i spent the last seven years managing many aspects of heritage action for america, including staff and 17,000 volunteers across this conty. vo

she became zanld when she was 29 and despite what director mulvaney will tell you, she did work. she worked for years until she couldn't anymore. when her health meant she could no longer continue, she signed up for ssdi. this wasn't because she was lazy or she wouldn'ted to live off the government, it was a tragedy. she didn't meet the minute him income requirements for low income housing. she wrote to me. >> on behalf of americans who have a disability and who know they have still much to contribute to our country. what kaitlin needs is help, help to get out of poverty, manage her health problems and know what it feels hike to contribute again. she wants this but it's being taken away from her, thanks to the cuts in the budget needed to pay for trump's tax cuts. and that's the rule of the trump budget, which is that if you're doing well, you get more money through a tax cut. if you're struggling to work pause of a disability, you get less. 23 you run a family business like, say, the trump organization, you get a pass-through business tax break. if you have a family and host you

carolina's fifth district are going to the polls, replacing the president's new budget director mick mulvaney. ralph norman is favored over archie parnell in a race that has also been a lot about president trump. >> i appreciate what donald trump is done. i support the president and i want to bring his message to the fifth district of all that he's accomplished great he's done a great job. started off right with neil gorsuch and he's continuing in the economy and what he's doing for business. >> the only thing i can agree with my opponent about is the fact that we are so starkly different. he has given president trump a grade of a+ plus. i cannot agree with that. it's the one we will have the results tonight on our election special, 11:00 p.m. eastern. what do you think? do you think the special elections are that important? let me know on twitter at @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport. or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. we will have the results at 11:00 p.m. eastern. news overseas, a russian warplane armed to the teeth came way too close for comfort to an american reconnaissa

director mulvaney is introducing a new budget that cuts wasteful washington spending and protect the taxpayer and that will come out and believe me, we will take care of the people that have to be taken care of. that is the first step. we will be taking care of the people that have to be taken care of. on a human basis, that is very, very important. today, we are going to hear from secretary tillerson and secretary mattis on the ways that we are combating isis. we have had tremendous success against isis. we are doing very, very well. we will have a news conference in two weeks and you will see numbers you would not have believed. and frankly, if you look back to six months ago, you would not believe it was possible. secretary shall can will give us an update on his tremendous work to make sure our veterans are finally given the care they deserve, one of the most important things to me on the campaign trail. we also are pushing for the passage of the v.a. accountability act to ensure employees of the v.a. can be held accountable. if they fail our great veterans. it has passed the sen

mulvaney having been a former member. for example, in my home state of ohio, 3 million people receive drinking water from lake erie and tourism generates more than $14 billion in spending annually and nearly 25,000 jobs. -- 125,000 jobs. 40 million tons of cargo are shipped through the authorized ports on lake erie. we see these types of benefits in other states that border the great lakes. and for this reason, our great lakes delegation has greatly supported the initiative. this program is facilitating collaboration among our states, federal government as making real progress in solving some of the most serious problems. it is helping communities revitalize waterfront areas creating jobs and new economic development. in my district, creating up sediments allowed for the return of normal shipping and sustained the economic viability of the city's port. for us, cleaning up the lakes isn't about correcting mistakes from the past but creating new opportunities and a brighter future for our shoreline communities. the presiden

. >> well, i have to tell you that i found it quite offensive to hear that the omb director mulvaney in the rollout of the economy redefined compassion of how many americans to kick off of social safety net programs. and i just -- i think that what i'd like to hear from you is what programs, what line items in the budget that was rolled out yesterday actually reflects this administration's commitment to working families and to those that are most vulnerable in our society. >> i think there's lots of programs. and again, i think the biggest focus is economic growth and putting american workers back to work. >> well, i think it's a misnomer to assume that people who are on s.n.a.p. are not trying to work. most states have work requirements. in fact, 50% of the people who receive s.n.a.p. only have it for ten months or less. so, i just think that in taking $190 million out of s.n.a.p. for example, nutrition assistance, that is not showing compassion and i just submit to you that a rising tide lifts all boats, that people who are living in vulnerable communities are just as american as y

mick mulvaney? something like that.dget is filled with brutal, senseless cuts to medical research, like $14 billion in cuts from health and human services, including an unbelievable cut of 19% from the national cancer institute's budget. >> audience: boo! >> stephen: no, no, listen, listen, trump said we'd be sick of winning, and he is ready to deliver on the first half of that sentence. ( laughter ) now, the budget also calls for major cuts to the centers for disease control. so whenever that thing inside steve bannon bursts out and goes airborne, we will not be prepared to handle it. ( cheers and applause ) ah, speaking of things that keep spreading, the russia investigation is only getting worse for the president. last night, we found out that back in march, after james comey testified before congress that there was an investigation into collusion between the russians and the trump team, "trump asked the director of national intelligence and the head of the n.s.a. to publicly deny evidence of russia col

director mulvaney has led efforts to introduce a new budget that cuts wasteful washington spending. that will come out, and believe me, we will take care of the people that have to be taken care of. we will be taking care of the people that have to be taken care of. on the human basis, that is very important here and we will hear from secretary tillerson and secretary mattis on the ways we are combating prices and defeating terrorism. we have had tremendous success against isis and our fight in the middle east. we are doing very, very well. we will have a news conference in two weeks on that fight, and you will see numbers you would not have believed. frankly, if you look at six months ago, you would not have believed it was possible. we will have an update on tremendous work to make sure that our veterans are finally given the care that they deserve , one of the most important things to me on the campaign trail. we have been strongly pushing for the passage of the va accountability act to ensure employees of the va can be held accountable if they fail our great veterans. the senate

. >>> today in russia the country's critic of vladimir putin, alexey mulvaney was arrested again.on his way to anti-government anti-corruption protests he helped organized today. we walked out of his apartment to head into downtown moscow and was scooped by police right at his apartment building. his wife tweeted this photo of him being taken into custody. it did not stop protesters from turning out in force today in central moscow and across the country as well in hundreds of sites across the country. lots of people turned out. thousands of people turned out in cities all across the russia. hundreds of people were arrested at multiple sites, including a lot of young people who reporters said police appeared to just pluck out of the crowd at random no matter what those individuals were doing at the moment. it's unclear exactly how riot police targeted the people they did arrest, it's unclear how many people they took in. one russian website is reporting that 750 people were arrested today in moscow. and even more than that, 900 people were arrested in st. petersburg. these protest

to welcome secretary mnuchin, secretary kelly, administrator burma, and my budget director nick mulvaney. thank you all. you've done a great job. i want to thank chris for ablemming such a spectacular group of people. i want to thank ivanka for working so hard on it. it's our passion. our goal to have a sweeping that will have stronger protection from cyber attacks, which we were just discussing in the oval office with a little bit of a smaller group. it's a big problem. no question about it we're going to be working on it. we're going to solve the problem. and up to a trillion dollar in tax savings over the next few years, over a trillion. we're broadening change and thinking to transform government and make it the way it should be and at far less cost. my administration's already taken very historic steps to modernize critical it systems and make government more trance parent. for example, you're seeing what we're doing with the airports. billions and billions of dollars spent on planes flying in the wrong directions, we're getting a change. it's been billion of dollars, and we're gett

director mulvaney has led our efforts to introduce a new budget that cuts wasteful washington spending and protects taxpayers, and that will come out and believe me, will take to the people that have to be taken care of. so that's the first step but we will be taking care of the people that have to be taken care of. on a human basis that's a very, very important. today we are going to hear from secretary tillerson's and secretary mattis on the ways that we are combating isis and defeating terrorism but we got tremendous success against isis and a fight in middle east. we are doing very, very well it will be having a news conference in two weeks on that fight and you'll see numbers that you would not have believed and, frankly, if you look back to even six month ago you wouldn't have believed it was possible. secretary shulkin will give us an update on your tremendous work to make sure that our veterans are finally given the care that they deserve, one of the most important things to me on the campaign trail. we've also been pushing for the passage of the va county building act to ensur

mulvaney and gary cohn and others are talking about that going forward. and it will be a topic that they discuss. >> an increase in the deficit is something that the administration would find acceptable with tax reform? >> well, i would put it more like this. if there's a conversation that is going to go on with congress about how to proceed and it's not at this time i'm not going to get in front of that discussion. >> sarah said yesterday in response to a question about who it was that changed the president's nato speech, taking out the article 5 language that she would check on that and get back to us. i know you didn't make that commitment but she did. can you give us an answer to that question? >> i don't have that. i don't know. i'll ask sarah to follow up with you. >> can you confirm that that, in fact, is what happened? was one speech and a different one prepared late in the process and that speech did in fact take some of those who believe they were aware of the first speech by a surprise? >> as we've said before, the president's speech at the top

mulvaney talk about. keep for the text of internet. can you assist?> that part of that is because that is a discussion going on in congress. director mull mulvaney. they're talking with congress about the plan moving forward. that's conversation, as i talked about. the present will have a conversation in the next several minutes with the senate and house leadership, and i'm sure they'll be a topic to discuss. >> reporter: and increase to the deficit is something that the administration would find acceptable? >> i would put them one like this. if there is a conversation that is going along with congress on how to proceed and if not at this time, i am not getting in front of that discussion. >> reporter: sarah said yesterday in response to question who it was they change the president nato speech. she said she would check on that. i know you do not make that commitment but she did. can you comment? >> i don't have that. i don't know. i will ask her to follow-up with you. >> reporter: and you and confirmed that is what happened. there was one speech, and

it's the seat that belonged to mick mulvaney.at that belong to frank underwood on "house of cards." julia: how well are these guys going to do? what is it about goldman sachs means there is a natural path to washington for them? max: i'm not sure archie parnell's biggest problem is golden snacks -- goldman sachs. north carolina voted for democrats for a full century until mick mulvaney come -- came along. they redrew it, some people call it gerrymandering, so it's harder to win now. go to as why goldmanites washington, not only do have gary cohn, steven mnuchin, and gary powell working for trump, don't forget that bill clinton had a treasury secretary from goldman sachs, just like george w. bush did. it's either something in the water or goldman sachs executives are taught that public service matters, not only to these people's personal lives, but also to the firm's bottom line. julia: very quickly, do you think it's going to help with things between parties if we do have at least a group of people that come from the same area, l

when i talked to budget director mick mulvaney he said the is all over this. kevin mccarthy the major the same thing. everything i'm hearing is president gets it. understands it. that's a rip off what's happening to her. the pharma, companies have been in there. it doesn't go to the heart of problem. which is pretty basic. that woman these pay higher prices for same products it's because of the immense pricing power that the drug companies has. good workanies doing and creating good products have competition. leveler on thea price. you can't charge more because you can get away with it. is not there yet by his actions. verbally.ands it please mr. president let's help this woman who called in. host: the "new york times" talked about the approach might at theng a look regulatory burden. guest: i'm all for that. regulatory burden is overstated by the pharma companies. that's not the reason those prices went up. there's no burden causing her prices to go up as far as she said. that's just because the company has the ability to keep raising prices. for pharmaceutic

> outside experts say there is still room to run under the debt ceiling before december but mick mulvaney has said a want you guys to go into august. do you believe that has to be done by august and will the democrats help raise the debt ceiling before you are given a concrete dropdead date? i don't know who you're using as a reference for october. >> the bipartisan policy center. hearing isng we are that it should probably be done before we leave at the end of july so that it could be ready for september. it could happen in august. one of the reasons, my understanding is, again, is that we need to do it sooner because entities aremany thinking they will get a big tax break from president trump for next year. the revenues are not coming in as fast this year's they should. in other words, part of when this happens is how fast the revenue comes in. people are making decisions about their balance sheet relating to something they think to ratesen relating for next year. >> they have a history of crying wolf on this. this in as well do way to be in front of it instead of behind it. . as i say,

the south carolina seat that used to belong to the office of management and budget director nick mulvaneyut the georgia race will determine the future of health care in this country, will decide whether the president can be impeached, everything, i mean everything is at stake. we know it is a bit of an exaggeration. but if the democrats don't manage to pull oof south carolina 5 in a district that president trump carried by 18 points and nick mulvaney won by more than that, 20 points, then all those world changing things you're hearing about may be true. bottom line, keep an eye on the south carolina race on tuesday and watch the margins. those will matter here, too. the big money and all the attention is focused on georgia. but it's the south carolina one that would be the real game changer if something happened. conventional wisdom, we thought we were spend being tuesday night on the virginia race refreshing those democrat primary numbers. little did we know it was the republican race was the squeaker. what if that's what r tuesday is like? catch you on meet the press on mtp. for the rec

down there, but it wasn't a lot of money, that's amazing in a south carolina district that mick mulvaney and trump won by high percentages. even all soft coming in within five or six points was amazing in the district when you consider that it's a pretty rural area. he did not live in the district, which is not necessary according to law, but real smart politically. the fact that he didn't do that and kept talking about the fact that he was staying with his girlfriend, in a way that's commendable but i'm sure that in some places in georgia it didn't play well that he was living with his girlfriend and not married to her. i'm sure she's going to be a great doctor and is a wonderful woman and that's cool and fine but that didn't play out there. real, to the district, be you might have one. host: appreciate the setup, we will be spending the last half hour on that topic, the republican special election wins in georgia, specifically south carolina. callers can start calling in on republicans, democrats, and independence. we want to thank you. >> c-span's washington journal. light every day w

white house budget director mick mulvaney agrees that crop insurance is critical to farmers. but he says that's exactly why they don't need a big subsidy to get them to buy it. he also recently told lawmakers that the administration is helping small town america by rolling back regulations. >> farmers are farmers. they want to grow stuff and they want to be productive. they don't want to be paper pushers who trying to figure how the federal government is going to punish them for doing something that thought was right. >> reporter: still, some republicans are crying foul. senator pat roberts of kansas and represent michael conaway of texas oppose the cuts. they're the chairmen of the two agriculture committees in congress. they pledge to protect the farmers' safety net. the president's budget is just the starting point for negotiations. many farm states voted for trump. sawyer said he's hopeful that means the white house will listen to people like him. >> we knew there wasn't a perfect candidate. and honestly, there never really is. but what i believe in is smaller federal gov

mulvaney, madeck an excellent argument when he presented the budget. we have completed 11 straight years with less than 3% growth. if you look back to the early 1960's, john f. kennedy was arguing that we need to lower taxes to spur economic growth in the country then. i think john f. kennedy's argument is more relevant today even then it was when he was making it 50 years ago. host: let me ask you about what we heard from the president, in terms of trying to get something like this done. he's also pushing for health the house health care bill was done arrival and he doesn't think the senate will pass any health care bill this year. bill press was your short while ago saying the donald trump made the same mistake as bill clinton and barack obama, by focusing first on health care. honestly,st -- guest: didn't think they focus quickly enough on health care. the only reasonable right as speaker of the house now is because john boehner became speaker of the house in 2011 after the republicans won the 2010 election propelled by the tea party with the number