Joy Behar Interrupts Sen. Blackburn to Claim that Obama Left This Country with a Surplus’

EXCERPT:

BLACKBURN: “You know, I thought it was interesting last night that Senator Harris said that Joe Biden ran the Obama recovery, and we know that that was one of the slowest recoveries ever from a recession. Two percent —"
BEHAR: "What?"
BLACKBURN: "— economic growth and 192,000 —" [crosstalk]
BEHAR: "Excuse me, ma’am. Excuse me, senator. I have to interrupt you. It’s only an hour show, but I have to interrupt you, ma’am because the way I saw it, President Obama left this country with a surplus and now we’re in a huge deficit, not to mention the thousands who are unemployed right now and who don’t even have food. Over a million children are going hungry in this country. I don’t see that there’s anything to brag about. But let me ask you this question. Trump is back in the Oval Office even though he’s likely still —" [crosstalk]
BLACKBURN: "I have to jump in here."
BEHAR: "All right."
BLACKBURN: "We didn't -- we weren’t left with a surplus. There was not a surplus. Excuse me. During — when President Bush left office —"
BEHAR: "It wasn’t a deficit."
BLACKBURN: "-- our national debt was at $10 trillion, and when Obama left office, it was over $22 trillion. Now that’s way too much; $10 trillion was too much debt for me.”