outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. i need a hero he s gotta be strong and he s gotta be fast yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with politico he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go as is. i am not going to back off the sequestration. that s the law we passed. we did it because it wouldn t make things easy for us. it made it so we would have to do something. of course we re in this position because democrats and republicans failed in the super fail super committee to reach a grand bargain and deal with our country s debt crisis. but still what reid said was absolutely right. and he follows another hero on this front. his buddy ole pal john boehner, who says he doesn t want to wait for the election to leave it to be solved in a lame duck six-week window. it took me eight months to get people interes
report on this. on an amazing custody battle. an outfront investigation. let s go outfront. outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. i need a hero he s gotta be strong and he s gotta be fast yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with politico he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go as is. i am not going to back off the sequestration. that s the law we passed. we did it because it wouldn t make things easy for us. it made it so we would have to do something. of course we re in this position because democrats and republicans failed in the super fail super committee to reach a grand bargain and deal with our country s debt crisis. but still what reid said was absolutely right. and he follows another hero on this front. his buddy ole pal john boehner, who says he doesn t want to wait for the election to leave
23 past the hour. joining us now, the ceo of the comeback america initiative and the former comptroller general of the u.s., david walker. and he gave us a trillion dollars. i need it. you need a trillion dollar bill. there you go. now, why are you passing out trillions, dave? unfortunately, that won t cover the deficit this year. but the problem is not this year. it s where we are headed, going into the future. and i want to commend both you and mika for having the vision and understanding that we need to talk about facts and solutions. so far, this campaign has been very negative, and it s been about the past. we need to be more positive and talk about how we re going to create a better future. well, you ve got some charts. this is the place to go if you have nerdy charts. thank you, steve rattner, for that. you started a trend. our fiscal future. and i d love to get ezra klein in on this as well. the first chart, it s based
wall street. it s driven by young people who are very concerned about where we are, where the future of the country lies. they ve been following me for a number of years. we ll see where it goes. right now i am focused on the comeback america initiative. i ve said for months that i would prefer to run an issue oriented campaign without running for public office. ross perot ran 20 years ago. he ran on fiscal responsibility, political dysfunctionality, declining trust in government, declining confidence in the f future. we re worse off on all four of those, competence in government is 19% versus 58% 20 years ago and there s 42% of independents like myself. that sounds like a platform. i mean, if you were to choose to run, that s what you would be running on? it s an opportunity for somebody, and i would strongly prefer it be somebody other than me. who is that? yet to be determined. who are the type of people you would like to see out there? because there s i hear this.
accounting class, somehow. dr. jeffrey sachs and steve rattner are still with us, along with mark mckinnon in washington. i think he was a liberal arts guy, just a wild guess. absolutely. and the founder and ceo of comeback america initiative, david walker. you did a little bit of work in washington, d.c. on this stuff for many years. and also in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and mrs. nbc political analyst, eugene robinson. mark, you ve heard about this debate about entitlements and the budget and discretionary, mandatory. this really does matter a great deal to how america moves forward over the next generation. absolutely. but the real issue do americans care? is there any way for a politician, other than ross perot in 92, to make americans focus on these issues? they want congress to do their squljob. and the fact is that the