these budget debates are not just about the programs of government; they're also about the purpose of government. so i'd like to share with you the principles that guide us. they are anchored in the wisdom of the founder, in the spirit of the declaration of independence, and in the words of the american constitution. they have to do with the importance of limited government and with the blessing of self-government. we believe government's role is both vital and limited -- to defend the nation from attack and provide for the common defense, to secure our borders, to protect innocent life, to uphold our laws and constitutional rights, to ensure domestic tranquility and equal opportunity, and to help provide a safety net for those who cannot provide for themselves. we believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. we believe, as our founders did, that "the pursuit of happiness" depends upon individual liberty, and individual liberty requires limited government. limited government also means effective government. when government takes on too many tasks, it usually does not do any of them very well. it's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high. the president and the democratic leadership have shown, by their actions, that they believe government needs to increase its size and its reach, its price tag and its power. whether sold as "stimulus" or repackaged as "investment," their actions show they want a federal government that controls too much, taxes too much, and spends too much in order to do too much. and during the last two years, that is exactly what we have gotten -- along with record deficits and debt -- to the point where the president is now urging congress to increase the debt limit. we believe the days of business as usual must come to an end. we hold to a couple of simple convictions. endless borrowing is not a strategy. spending cuts have to come first. our nation is approaching a tipping point. we are at a moment, where if government's growth is left unchecked and unchallenged, america's best century will be considered our past century. this is a future in which we will transform our social safety net into a hammock, which lulls able-bodied people into lives of complacency and dependency. depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer choices has never worked -- and it will not work now. we need to chart a new course. speaking candidly, as one citizen to another -- we still have time, but not much time. if we continue down our current path, we know what our future will be. just take a look at what's happening to greece, ireland, the united kingdom and other nations in europe. they didn't act soon enough, and now their governments have been forced to impose painful austerity measures -- large benefit cuts to seniors and huge tax increases on everybody. their day of reckoning has arrived. ours is around the corner. that is why we must act now. some people will back away from this challenge. but i see this challenge as an opportunity to rebuild what lincoln called the "central ideas" of the republic. we believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. under this approach, the spirit of initiative -- not political clout -- determines who succeeds. millions of families have fallen on hard times not because of our ideals of free enterprise -- but because our leaders failed to live up to those ideals, because of poor decisions made in washington and wall street that caused a financial crisis, squandered our savings, broke our trust, and crippled our economy. today, a similar kind of irresponsibility threatens not only our livelihoods but our way of life. we need to reclaim our american system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. and it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. that is the real secret to job creation -- not borrowing and spending more money in washington. limited government and free enterprise have helped make america the greatest nation on earth. these are not easy times, but america is an exceptional nation. in all the chapters of human history, there has never been anything quite like america. the american story has been cherished, advanced, and defended over the centuries. and it now falls to this generation to pass on to our children a nation that is stronger, more vibrant, more decent, and better than the one we inherited. thank you and good night. >> congressman paul ryan, the republican of wisconsin speaking in the budget hearing room and with good reason. his goal tonight, as the republicans have stated is to lay out a stark contrast what the republicans believe as a way forward and what the democrats and the president believe is the way forward. more chance for free enterprise to get the job done. from president obama, spend, educate, invest in the future, allow government to help along the way. now to get it done. continuing coverage on this fox station, analysis on fox news channel on satellite and cable. i'm shephard smith. goodnight. this is fox 5 news at 10:00. fox 5 is all over a winter weather alert. tonight it looks like a significant snow fall is on the way. good evening, everyone. i'm brian bolter. >> and i'm shawn yancy. this storm system could give us several inches of snow, d.c. included. the fox 5 storm force headed up by sue palka and gary mcgrady are in the weather center now pouring over the latest models. >> hello. some of those latest models coming in tonight and we are again beginning to see a lot of consensus including with our in- house model that this will be significant for d.c. here is the storm you can see tonight. it's actually the center of the low pressure over pensacola but notice the snow now for western tennessee and kentucky and the line of thunderstorms that's gone marching through florida. we begin to see the first precipitation down through central virginia and that will probably be rain, but as we get closer to the morning rush hour we have may be getting a little bit of a mix in there, but we're hoping that temperatures will be such that you won't have big problems in morning, but too expect to see perhaps a bit of a mix. this is the winter storm watch. that is probably not going to change for the next number of hours. a winter storm watch means there's potential for 5 inches of snow or more. in the warning that means that 5 inches or more is expected and that's for everyone along and west of interstate 81 and gary, it's starting to look like that might have to get expanded into the district as we look at some of our late information this evening. >> i think so. they didn't do it. they did not expand it, as they clearly said, that they didn't have confidence in the fact that it would be enough snow here to warrant the warning, but that may change. i still have a few concerns about what the storm is going to do. it looks like it's definitely going to be a messy mix of snow. >> most of the day, folks, you won't have huge problems to this, but there's a second part to this, an upper level storm behind the main storm and we believe that will change everything over to snow right around a the time of rush hour and it may come down hard enough to cause significant problems for the evening commute and by this time tomorrow night i bet it's wrapping up. >> once it gets going, it's going to start quick and come down heavy and get out of here quickly. tomorrow we could see a bit of everything in terms of what we'll get, a mixed bag. we're talking parish tomorrow evening if all things come together -- maybe tomorrow evening and all things come together, we're talking maybe up to an hour or two of 2-inch plus per hour snow, just about the time the evening commute kicks off. >> maybe with a little thunder and lightning, too. so that's when we start to be concerned about bands of snow and chasing those bands will be kind of tough. >> we've got some headlines to show you in terms of what we're thinking to give you the idea and keep in mind, this doesn't really get going until later on tomorrow, the mix for the morning commute i don't think will be a big deal. >> it should not. i'm not anticipating big problems for schools. what you may get is some schools deciding to do an early dismissal tomorrow based on the fact that we expect this to change to snow late in the afternoon around the time of the evening rush hour. >> heavier again as we talked about for the p.m. commute. it's kind of i think a moving window here maybe as early as 4:00, but maybe again as late as 6:00 before we get the changeover to snow. certainly once the sun sets is when it begins to be mostly snow and we are anticipating several inches. let me click it real quick here. this is what we wanted to see, too. this is kind of a broad brush and we shifted this just a little bit because one of our favorite models is indicating that right here along i-95 we could get heavier accumulations. so here and back out along i- 81, too. >> it's going to be an interesting day, folks, but you are warned and we'll continue to watch this closely, primetime probably up to 4:00 tomorrow, but things will go downhill as the day goes on and temperatures begin to drop and maybe the rate of snow is such that this piles up on top of itself. we'll attach some serious numbers to those bands when we join you upstairs and get all the latest information for you. >> see you in a few minutes. of course, you can count on www.myfoxdc.com for complete coverage of this latest round of winter weather. check the weather page for the latest forecasts along with any school closings and delays. now a story you'll see only on fox 5, major developments in the disappearance and death of a prominent federal attorney. joyce chiang vanished from dupont circle 12 years ago. her body washed up on the shores of potomac three months later. now fox 5 learned police identified two people they believe abducted chiang with the intention of robbing her. fox 5's paul wagner has the story you'll see first on fox 5. >> reporter: joyce chiang was last seen walking on connecticut avenue the night of january 9th, 1999. she was on her way to a dupont circle starbucks where she planned to get a cup of tea. from there the 28-year-old told friends she would walk the five blocks home to her apartment on church street, but on that bitterly cold saturday night chiang disappeared. for days it was a complete mystery. until the ins attorney's government id and other belongings were found along the banks of the anacostia river near douglas bridge. her brother roger asked the media for help. >> the bottom line is that we want joyce home safe and back to her family and friends and whoever may have joyce, please we ask simply to let her go and bring her home. >> reporter: because joyce worked for the federal government, the fbi got involved. >> it was our understanding that the government id had been found in anacostia park, but that was not the case. the government id was found by a couple here on sunday morning january 10th, turned over to the park police and then turned over to the fbi. >> reporter: while federal agents tried to retrace chiang's last steps her brother roger gathered friends and family for nightly vigils near where she was last seen. >> what we're all going through right now is a living hell. >> reporter: 12 weeks later the family's hopes were dashed when a canoeist found joyce's body on the banks of the potomac river in fairfax county. the remains were so decomposed the medical examiner were unable to determine how she died -- was unable to determine how she died. months went by with no news and then a year. what happened to joyce? with no clear answer died a top d.c. police official in the summer of 2001 suggested joyce chiang may have committed suicide. >> i was very enraged by that quote because i find it very irresponsible that the deputy that the executive assistant police chief is saying stuff like that. >> reporter: police chief charles ramsay tried to repair damage by telling reporters it was just one of a number of possibilities. >> you know what they really need to do, start over from scratch. give it to a new investigator who would take an honest look at joyce's case. >> reporter: now 12 years later law enforcement sources say investigators believe joyce chiang may have died while trying to get away from the two men who abducted her. they believe she may have slipped on the ice and fallen into the anacostia river. with the banks so icy she couldn't get out. earlier today we met roger chiang to get his reaction to the new developments in the case. >> it was a cold night and from the scenario from what the investigators and the prosecutors have told me it all makes sense what happened that night. >> reporter: roger chiang said he first learned police remember on to something new last spring and -- were onto something new last spring and prayed they would find the people responsible for his sister's death. one of the suspects is in federal prison serving a life prison. the other is in a country where there's no extradition treaty. the suspects were developed over the last year during a series of jailhouse interviews. as far as arrests are concerned, that is still under investigation and warrants have not been issued at this point. as far as these suspects are concerned, sources say that they had a pattern apparently of abducting people in the city and then taking them to anacostia park where they would be robbed. in the fox 5 newsroom i'm paul wagner. >> joyce's brother roger chiang joins us in the studio. thanks for being here. i watched your face during that report and i could still see you grimacing. 12 years, this still has a major impact on you. >> this has been 12 years in the making, 10 years since the old police leadership, but tonight my family is elated because we have vindication that joyce did not commit suicide. that's what i said 12 years ago and 10 years and today the truth comes out and we're so happy to have the police and the prosecutors say that. we are so grateful. my family is -- i talked to my brothers and my mom over the past few hours since you guys first aired it on your 5:00 and 6:00 broadcasts. we are so elated and grail that this prosecution team, the u.s. attorney -- grateful that a this prosecution team, the u.s. attorney and detectives and chief lanier stepped up and restored integrity to this police department and did the right thing. >> as happy as you are with the outcome that this case has been solved are you frustrated from the beginning there was never a manner or cause of death and i don't think the case has been technically classified as a homicide. >> the case is not classified as a homicide and we're grateful for the police's bold move to do that and so yes. we learned a long time ago justice is not absolute. i think the years of silence from anybody, you know, this was a cold case and i think my family was rhee solved a long time ago we -- resolved a long time ago we would not find out what happened to joyce in this lifetime, but luckily we were given this team of prosecutors and cops that did the right thing. >> we heard there in paul's piece the two men they suspect abducted your sister, one is serving a federal prison sentence for life and the other is in a country with no extradition treaty. are you frustrated this case may not go to trial? >> i think one thing my family would like to see one day is it does happen for this to go to trial and the suspects, perpetrators too face justice. at this point we're also happy that this was also classified and ruled a homicide. >> what's next? >> what's next? i'm a producer at america's most wanted. i'm going to keep fighting for justice for their victims and families and hope get other folks some justice just like my family was able to get that today. >> we are certainly glad this has brought a little peace and of comfort to your family. thanks so much for coming? n. >> thank you. a plea from the president tonight for unity in a newly divided government. president obama just wrapped up his state of union speech. fox 5's tom fitzgerald is on the hill with the highlights now. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the president made the case tonight in his state of the union address, but the recession is winding up despite the continued bad news in the economy. the president argued tonight that the americans in this room and across the nation need to get ready for what's next. the president says next is a global market that is in high speed and america's been struggling by. he started tonight by telling democrats and republicans in the room they needed to work together to prepare for this next step in america's future. >> at stake right now is not who wins the next election. after all, we just had an election. the stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country or somewhere else. >> reporter: well, the next part of that the president says is a five-part plan which he says will set up this both an education and infrastructure, both tax cuts and a restructuring of how the president says the federal government spends tax dollars. all of this he says is going to be necessary, both the cutting and the spending, to get a right balance on exactly where to put the government's money to best set it up to take advantage of these global markets. here's what he had to say. >> we need to outinnovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world. we have to make america the best place on earth to do business. we need to take responsibility for our deficit and reform our government. >> reporter: now part of that reform the president says is going to be a five year freeze on discretionary spending. the president also said that tax cuts are going to be on the table for the middle class, but the president says those tax cuts for the wealthy for millionaires that were part of the lame duck congress, the president says he wants to see those expire for people making more than $250,000 a year. now finally he wrapped up tonight saying that both parties need to work together. >> now is the time for both sides and both houses of congress, democrats and republicans, to forge a principal compromise that gets the job done. if we make the hard choices now to rein in our deficits, we can make the investments we need to win the future. >> reporter: there was some changes this year both democrats and republicans sitting together in the house rather than on opposite sides of the chamber. the president got a few laughs as well, brian, a line about how different government agencies handle the spawning and departure of fish. that got a big laugh as well as a crack that was not in the prepared text about going through an airport and getting a patdown. send it back to you. >> tom fitzgerald tonight. tonight's republican response came from congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. he focused entirely on the federal deficit and healthcare bill the gop wants to repeal. >> healthcare spending is driving the explosive growth of our debt and the president's law is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy. our debt is out of control. what was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. we cannot deny it. instead we must as americans confront it responsibly. >> still ahead tonight we'll check back in with fox 5's tom fitzgerald live from the hill with reaction to tonight's state of the union. he claimed his life of the basis of a hollywood movie, said he was a terrorism expert, even said he was trained in psychological warfare. just one problem. the feds say it was a lie and even the fbi didn't see through it. details on the local man's alleged scheme coming up next. this late edition of fox 5 news is just getting started, that plus an update on the massive water main break in prince george's county coming up in minutes. we're back now with more on an unusual story about an fbi arrest today. bob, you've been working this one. >> well, shawn, it was an arrest in anne arundel county this morning. a man accused of living an elaborate lie and profiting from it. bill hillar made a career based on his distinguished military background claiming his life story was the basis for an acclaimed hollywood movie called taken. >> they're going to take you. >> reporter: about an ex-spy whose daughter gets kidnapped overseas and sold as a sex slave. >> and ended up killing her in front of the rest of the girls. >> reporter: but wait a minute. the fbi says hillar's claims that he's a retired colonel of the army special forces who earned a phd from the university of oregon is a lie. his alleged bogus biobubble busted at the age of 66. >> he is not who he said he was. >> reporter: who did he say he was to you? >> everything that's in the indictment. >> reporter: the fbi arrested hillar at his home on old orchard circle in millersville maryland charging him with wire fraud for cashing a $2,000 check he received last summer from a central california institute. >> he teaches a course on counterterrorism and everybody raved about ha course. >> reporter: but brian hubs -- that course. >> reporter: but brian hubs, a marine and student sensed something wasn't right. >> he specifically said i'm a retired army colonel. i was in the special forces. i was in delta force and took part in all these different operations. >> reporter: with that rich history the feds say hillar was paid more than $100,000 by a number of private and public institutions. >> the nail in his coffin was the freedom of information act i actually got from the united states army special operations command. this is a full blood colonel and no record on him. that's it. >> he took a lot of money from a lot of places and a lot of people that thought he of genuinely what they had paid for and they didn't get what they paid for. they got a lie. >> reporter: what about suspicions that hillar's story about his daughter's kidnapping and murder was also a lie. >> it's horrendous. the only positive thing to perhaps gain out of this is that raising awareness of sex trafficking. >> wow, so quite a story. what kind of trouble is hillar in now? >> the charge is one count of mail fraud carrying up to 20 years in prison if convicted. the federal judge in baltimore today ordered him held until his next court date. >> bob, interesting story, thank you. metro's redline has recovered after four stations were shut down this afternoon because of smoke. the brakes malfunctioned on a six-car train as it pulled into the forest glen stop. smoke filled the tunnel. the station was evacuated. the train's operator was treated for smoke inhalation. service stopped between the glenmont and silver springs station about an hour and a half. a boil water advisory remains in effect tonight for hundreds of thousands of people in prince george's county. this follows yesterday's massive water main break along the beltway. fox 5's laura evans in the newsroom now with today's developments. >> water samples are being taken at 20 different sites throughout the affected area. it takes 18 hours for those results to come back and two consecutive batches have to come back pure before the boil water orders are lifted. at skyline elementary the kids can't use the water fountains, bottled water only here, no cooking either unless the water's boiled. about 80 prince george's county schools are in the same predicament since the 54-inch water main burst monday. >> the school district has provided bottled water for the students and i think all the water for the fountains are turned off. >> reporter: about 400,000 people of the county south of central avenue and route 202 ordered to boil their water before using it to avoid possible contamination. >> the boil water advisory will continue for a couple days. it is a precaution. i want to stress that. there's absolutely no evidence of any contamination in our water system. >> reporter: the school system did tap its emergency preparedness supplies for bottled water. they're ready to go up to three days without usable water if necessary. >> you've got all the pots and stoves and started boiling all the water. so as the pots empty they refill and boil more water. >> reporter: meanwhile water hogged businesses are drying out now, clean -- logged businesses are drying out now, cleaning crews not able to salvage much. pieces of the damaged pipe were tested to determine why it gave way. about one section of the pipe has to be replace -- one section of the pipe has to be replaced. >> they'll be coming in later today and the actual replacement pipe tomorrow and the weather will depend how quickly we get this in and get this whole back filled. >> reporter: water has been rerouted to customers through a different main so, there is less urgency. crews have begun putting fiberoptic sensors in transmission lines to detect possible bursts and prevent disaster. the pipe that ruptured yesterday did not have the fiberoptics. all lines should have them by 2014 and that boil water advisory once again may be in effect a few more days. his family says he was rushing to help a woman being attacked, but he became the city's latest murder victim. hear how friends and family are remembering him tonight. reaction to the state of the union, plus the winter storm begins to roll in. stay on top of the forecast tomorrow on fox 5 morning news beginning at 4:25 a.m. it's been nearly a week since bill mitchell jr. was murdered shot after his family said he was helping someone in need. tonight a community comes together to remember him and take back their d.c. neighborhood. fox 5's stacey cohan has more. >> thy kingdom come, thy will be done. >> reporter: it is an all too familiar ritual in this city, a candlelight vigil for someone whose life met a violent end. on the corner of north capitol and florida avenue northwest bill mitchell jr. was shot to death last week. family and friends say he was walking home but stopped to help a woman who was in trouble. his actions were rewarded with gunfire. >> he was always a hero in our eyes and so this just solidifies that for us. he was a great person, a great friend and we hope that he didn't die in vain. we want the community to come together to make this a safer place. >> this should never happen to any of our neighbors, especially one who is trying to assist. >> reporter: there were few tears in this gathering. instead the candles appeared to symbolize a flame in the belly of bloomingdale, one aimed at extinguishing fear and violence that has long plagued this very spot. >> this is not what bloomingdale is. this is not the bloomingdale that i grew up in. this is not the bloomingdale that we want. >> now tonight hopefully we can all get together and figure out what we can do to fix it. it's simple things. here we are standing underneath a street light that is going in and out. >> i've been passing this corner since 1967. it's an embarrassment to this community. we need to make it better. we need to make our whole community better. >> reporter: mitchell ended his comment by saying this is not the time to run, but the time to stand up for his son and for their neighborhood. stacey cohan, fox 5 news. it's been one year since the body of a virginia tech student was discovered in an albemarle county field. investigators are still getting leads about morgan harrington but have not found her killer. harrington disappeared from a metallica concert in october of 2009. her death has been linked to a sexual assault case in fairfax county from 2005. we have more on one of our big stories tonight, the president's state of the union address. he's pushing for civility and compromise, but can congress deliver? we're breaking down what's next. our coverage of the state of the union speech continues. tonight president obama called on democrats and republicans to support federal spending in four areas while making a commitment to rein in the nation's debt. the president promoted spending in areas like education and transportation and promised government reform. mr. obama told congress that the nation's political leadership is now "a shared responsibility." so how are your members of congress reacting to the speech? let's go back to fox 5's tom fitzgerald live on the hill. tom? >> reporter: shawn, as you know, it can be fascinating after these presidential speeches wrap up and you talk to members of congress who listened to the same speech but clearly hear different things. as you mentioned, the president talked a lot tonight about investments, what the president says need to be spent in order for the american economy to be ready to take on a new global marketplace, but many republicans who exited just a short time ago said what they heard was not talk about investments. they heard talk about spending. republican caucus members tonight said they have come to washington with a clear message from voters and listen to how they reacted to the president's investment talk which they say are going to eventually need to be turned into spending. >> i think the focus needs to be on this deficit. weapon want to be really focus -- we want to be really focused on making sure that that happens and listening tonight to the president, i'm afraid if you are adding spending on top of an element of reducing spending, i just don't see how that adds up, but we want to listen to the specifics of how these investments may take place, but we're concerned about the math of that. it's hard to subtract by addition. >> i think the president failed tonight to really convey the gravity of our situation with respect to our debt. it's not our grandchildren. i'm a business owner, first time elected official and i truly believe that our country's at serious risk and i appreciate the tone that he put out there, but i think there is a lack of substance to what he's put forth and our class, the freshmen class, we are committed to reducing federal spending and you'll see that over the next several months. >> reporter: that's just a taste of a lot of what you will hear from republicans tonight. they like the president's tone, although they are not so keen on some of the details in his speech. so we turned it over to the democrats now. up until about a month ago they were the majority party of the house of representatives and you only had to look behind the president tonight to see speaker john boehner behind him to know the things have changed up here. we spoke to virginia democratic congressman gerry connolly tonight. connolly acknowledged despite the president's words of bipartisanship there will be some tough choices and tough roads ahead for democrats as we move through this current congressional session. >> i'm sure we're going to have some debate about priorities, but i think what the president said tonight was that not all spending is the same. you have to make strategic investments in infrastructure and research development if you're going to stay competitive as we look to the future. he's absolutely right about that. >> i agree with him that we need to expand our innovation, our research and development including with the government having a role. i think we ought to invest more in our nation's infrastructure, which is crumb bling, but you can't do all that if you're going to freeze discretionary spending for the next five years. they're mutually exclusive because that's where all that money is. >> reporter: and basically you have the argument right there spelled out for you. the democrats and the administration say they need to invest, spend money to get this economy moving again. the republicans, shawn, say they were sent here to cut this budget and they say that's what they're going to do. >> leading up tonight much was made about democrats and republicans sitting together. what was it actually like inside the house chamber? >> reporter: a lot of them that came out tonight said they enjoyed it. it was a deeply serious reason why they were doing it, a show of unity in the face of that tragic shooting in arizona, but a lot of them say they got to meet members on the other side of the aisle that they never would have had an opportunity to talk with before. they said yes, it was a bit spraining because they're so used to over the years -- strange because they're so used to over the years seeing one side of the chamber applaud while the other side stays seated but overall we got high marks from both democrats and republicans today about how they perceived this mixing up of seating. the real test they say will come over time. we heard calls for bipartisanship in the past certainly seeing tom daschle and president george w. bush hug after 9/11. the real test comes over time and business gets back to usual tomorrow. >> nice to see if that civility can keep going and going. one of what do those outside the capitol building think about the speech? jack burkeman is a republican strategist. robert weimer is on the democratic side. it sounded hike a pep rally to me. was it enough to buoy the hopes of the unemployed? >> it's the kind of leadership president obama has shown since the election that has buoyed him up 15% in the polls. the proposal that i haven't heard talked about in the media, but it doesn't mean people didn't read or listen to the speech of 100,000 new teachers, 80% of americans that have rail, protecting the healthcare of americans and going to latin america where the chilean president never gave america any credit but we created the drill, the capsule and the healthcare that saved those miners. >> all of those sounded like what the republicans were claiming would be exposed this evening which are investments they say, i.e. spending. do you see a lot of spending in this? >> there's no question. obama is a good public speaker, but it's horribly riddled with contradictions. they say they want to create jobs. that means they want to spend more money to do it. for barack obama to talk about cutting spending is almost orwellian, like 1984. this guy threw $4 trillion out the door and now he wants to come in and talk about spending. somebody's iq would have to be less than 65 to give serious credibility to that. >> the other side of that coin is that the republicans spent so much in the two terms under bush and then now suddenly turning around and saying obama can't spend any. >> no question, brian. you're 100% right and i was critical of george bush with the medicare expansion and everything else. i see a bit of the danger for the president tonight and that is he's skillfully trying move to the center the way bill clinton did in '95 but there's a risk because he's yet to solidify his base on the left. i think his popularity rating has been buoyed by the shooting, but there's a danger. he's up to 55%. there's a danger in believing he's secure because there's a real risk that he could yet be primaried by somebody on the left. so this move to the center may prove to be politically dangerous for him. >> my question to you would be these presidencies in the midterms would back this up are determined by the middle, not the far left, not the far right. do you think that president obama, his popularity is rising because he's moving more to the center and he's working with the republicans? >> that's absolutely right. while the republicans are doing a myth of saying we need to attack social security and privatize it and raise ages, it turns out now the facts are coming out social security has contributed one dime to the deficit and it's funded for 40 years. so he was very wise to knock out the idea of cutting social security tonight and he also -- what didn't come out tonight was that deficit that jack is talking about, $4 trillion, that's the tax cuts that the republicans insisted on. that's jacking us up to $14 trillion. >> nobody is talking about social security. what the republicans are talking about is making across the board cuts in a lot of these agencies. >> that's not true. >> i'll be tough on my own party. i'm a little tired of symbolic votes. i don't want a symbolic health repeal. i don't want to see symbolic cuts in the epa and department of commerce. i want real cuts. so it wouldn't bother me at all if republicans want to do a little bit of what newt gingrich did in '95, maybe more skillfully and go down the path of risking a government shutdown to get some of this stuff done. >> robert, you get the last word here. is a government shutdown really what is americans sent the republicans to washington to do b, really the solution? >> of course, there won't be a shutdown unless the republicans insist on trying to cut the social security benefit that they are threatening to because paul ryan does have that in his plan or to take away the healthcare from both the seniors and kids that are in the bill that people now want. they want their kids under 26 to keep their healthcare plans. so if they insist on those budgetary tricks that are disasterous for americans, then we'll have a confrontation. so it's also up to the republicans to share in responsibility of governing properly. >> we'll have to leave it there, thank you both for your time. there's your typical california car chase and then there's one caught on camera overnight. you have to see how this one ends next. this fox 5 stock market report is brought to you by your lexus dealer, live life heroically. 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