This shakes the confidence in our democracy and has the most inappropriate thing for the President to say without proof.

So I would urge the president to knock this off. This is the greatest democracy on earth. You're the leader of the free world and people are going to start doubting you as a person.

I hope that as our new head of the SBA you will look for ways to create synergy within government...

Do you support President Trump's initiative to increase defense spending?

I will call for the question.

The baby-boom generation will be retiring en masse here. What happens to Medicare and Social Security over the next 25 years?

So we are living longer, there are fewer workers, and more people are retiring.

If we do nothing, then by the time I retire, there will be an across-the-board 22-percent cut to Social Security benefits.

Will you tell him that the promise you made about Medicare and Social Security is going to lead to their demise if you do not change that promise?

I completely disagree with President Trump's view about entitlements. If we do not reform them, we are going to lose them.

The one thing I can say without any hesitation, whether you agree with Congressman Mulvaney about a particular issue, I think he is extremely capable and qualified.

Entitlement reform: What drives the debt? What is the chief driver of the debt?

Will you tell President Trump that if he ignores that, he can never get us out of debt?

Do you think we need to look at adjusting the age yet again because we live longer?

I think President Obama did that also, and that is a good thing.

The fact that people believe somehow that this mean - and I have given Donald Trump this leeway to say it is not fair to compare yesterday.

The White House lied today to the American public.

I expect the president of the United States to actually tell the truth.