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>> its driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, medicare, social security and medicade. thats 70% of what we spend every year, the funding of the government is about 30% of what we spend. theres been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. hopefully at some point here well get serious about this. >> dana: entitlement spending. weve talked about it for a long time in this country. i read it again this morning. y...

The senate. >> ron, are we about to see chuck an nancy part ii, is that whats going ohappen here? >> its an interesting idea. it will be more complicated on the democratic side. what they saw and the criticism they received was by making the deal on the fiscal side, they cleared more space for the republicans. more time for the republicans to immediately launch this one-party again effort to undo obamacare. i dont know whats more striking, that john mccain in the end would say he is unwilling to...

Legislation unless it protects those with preexisting conditions. >> reporter: democrats are blasting republicans, accusing them of rush, trying to get it done by the end of next week, perhaps without a full accounting of price and impact. >> they just took the congressional bug office and threw it out the window with our economy at stake and millions of peoples healthcare at stake. thats outrageous. >> reporter: the rush is, of course, that the leadership only has until the end of next week to ...

People appointed in previous administration to be asked for their resignation. across the federal government there are no longer people who have jobs. what is unusual ab this though, with bharara is the fact that he was asked by the then president elect back in december to stay on. and then wasnt kept on. then why the president decided to call him. i dont believe he called any of the other u.s. attorneys. came to the point where bharara consulted with some colleagues as to whether or not he shou...

Important to understand, this bill has to be done in the phases it has to to address the repeal part of it and the replace part of it. there are only things we can do through reconciliation. and then through action, the secretary is empowered to do under obama care. and then third is an additional piece of legislation that addresses things. there are cost saving measures that in competition aspects of this that have to be included in phase two or three because they are not allowed in the reconci...

Later. >> very good. thats why they call that spin city. did stimulus work? michelle fields says absolutely not and the number of people out of work proves it, juan williams disagrees, michelle, didnt they promise five percent unemployment or something like that and now were 32% higher than that? >> five years later and billions of dollars later the american people are still struggling. he promised all of these shovel-ready jobs, but the are no jobs. the american people are still struggling. we ...

Drafted in bill form. they dont have it scored which means the congressional bug office has looked at the legislation and said this is the impact of this. so theyve got a problem. there is not a bill for the senate to actually vote on yet. so whats going to happen, what he wrote it on today is a house bill that they hope to is up plant with this compromise. so the problem is with the way democrats look at it, if they say we agree until monday, well, that can slide into next week. democrats have ...

Were you not speaking before? what is the tone up on the hill? >> well, i think there was a lot of speaking, but im not sure there was a lot of listening. this is the process. what im hoping we will do is get on the bill and have amendments on the bill from all sectors to make their case and well get relief to the american people. again, i think we just started that process today. im optimistic. >> harris: this is something else thats developing today. the congressional bug office said it needs ...