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>> even conservative commenter we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. laura ingram is worried that the thats how we make our living and thats how we can pass the land party will miss the golden and water back to future generations. opportunity. >> they have to turn this moment into a step forward in policy people should make up their own mind whats best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. and advocate for smart policy that really hits people in the gu...

Popular benefit programs such as social security. the president says his proposal will cut next years deficit to $744 billion, its the lowess since 2008. his plan will cut the deficit by an extra $1.8 trillion over the next ten years bringing the total savings to $4.3 trillion based on the administrations calculations. of course the cbo will take a look at this as well. the presidents ten-year plan will trim $100 billion from defense spending. $400billion from medicare and save $230 billion by c...

The future cost of living increases for social security and other benefit programs. >> its a compromise im willing to accept in order to move beyond a cycle of short-term crisis driven decision making. so that we can focus on growing our economy and our middle class for the long run. it includes many ideas republicans have said they could accept as well. its a way we can make progress together. >> republican house speaker john boehner, seen here with the president last november, says the preside...

This battle thats going on over the budget. >> hi, kelly. president obama said today that his budget is a quote, compromise, but so far, republican leaders dont see it that way. the president will unveil the details on wednesday, but its said to include some tax hikes. and some cuts to the growth of social security and other benefit programs. here is what the president said in his weekly radio and internet address. >> my budget will reduce our deficits, not with aimless, reckless spending cuts t...

Well move on with that. andy, lets go to the presidents budget. hes certainly getting flack from his own party for the proposed changes to the entitlement programs. what is the strategy here? >> i think the strategy, alex, is to show the republican senators that hes having dinner with on a regular basis that hes serious about reaching a grand bargain, and that would necessarily involve pains for both sides of the aisle because, as you noted, when you tackle these very popular benefit programs li...

Obama is set to release next week and members of both parties say they are not happy about some of the details. for one thing, the president is offering to cut social security and other benefit programs, but only if republicans agree to tax hikes on the richest americans. house speaker john boehner saying, quote, if the president believes these modest entitlement savings are needed to help shore up these programs, there is no reason they should be held hostage for more tax hikes. congressman ger...

Its voluntary, you can sign a permission slip and theyre not keeping the information, its going to a private company but at the end of the day, if they dont do this, theyre fined. thats not voluntary. >> one thing that stuck out is if you dont pay and no ones firing you but the boss knows who has not who hopped on the s. >> its uncomfortable but its not deemed illegal. what the concept is bring the good-faith benefit programs to promote wellness. feeling when they take care of themself theyll do...

The floor so that he can waltz with the president. it is a leadership issue, but its also reflective of exactly what we saw during the election. the republican party has much greater -- i would argue that you have -- you have members of the progresssive wing, and i want to ask you about that. there are democrats that have been angry. you look at move on and huffington post. there has been outcry from the left about earned benefit programs like social security and medicare on the table as the pre...

Skewed, so wrong because we dont have a short-term deficit problem. we have a jobs and growth problem. i know people are agonizing. paul crudeman is agonizing about where it can did go. its legitimately. is no -- is no bargain a better bargain than a raw bargain? it seems to me to make a deal on the backs of the most vulnerable in our country is the worst way to go. i dont think were looking at balance. to me the way the media has characterized balance is so wrong because the vulnerable, the mid...

Can sit there and label the earned benefit programs as the cuts that have to take place when we have been in two wars that werent paid for and big pharma that took us to where we are. i mean, i think were missing the conversation in in country. how did we get here? molly, how did we get so far in the hole? what did we do? >> well, we spent money we didnt have, obviously. now were looking for a way to resolve that. i think what youre hearing, too, part of the nervousness and part of the problem p...