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Us a little bit of time to work out our disagreements -- >> but tax hikes wont hurt economic recovery? >> no, absolutely. the important thing for people to recognize about this, fixing our fiscal problem is going to require us doing tough things, things, again, that are going to touch all americans, but -- >> but to the point -- >> hold on one second on this. its very important to understand this. okay? but we can do this, we can handle this without putting an undo burden on the economy as a who...

15 billion. and then we inned up at only $352 million in actual deficit reduction this year? this is less than 1% of the number touted last friday night. as usual, the truth is buried the mind numbing but all important details. it was a lame deceiving deal. but, it pails into comparison about what we heard from mr. obama yesterday. now, vowing not to cut back on medicare and medicaid he said this. >> were a better country because of these commitments. i will go further. we would not be a great c...

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Said, there is mounting fascination at the white house as to whether you will run or not. so thank you for joining me tonight. and well watch this race. >> thank you very much, piers. >> today president obama laid out his plan to cut the nations $14 trillion debt. his goal, slashing $4 trillion over 12 years. a goal thats got republicans complaining too little, too late. and some in his own party fearing the cuts will go simply too deep. listen to the president. >> to those in my own party, i sa...

15 billion. and then we inned up at only $352 million in actual deficit reduction this year? this is less than 1% of the number touted last friday night. as usual, the truth is buried the mind numbing but all important details. it was a lame deceiving deal. but, it pails into comparison about what we heard from mr. obama yesterday. now, vowing not to cut back on medicare and medicaid he said this. >> were a better country because of these commitments. i will go further. we would not be a great c...

Where do you stand on this? >> look. running the federal government one week at a time is incredibly wasteful. you cannot make contractual commitments that make any sense on that basis, you cannot run a major enterprise, you cannot run the defense department. can you not run health and human services. you cannot run the major agencies of the federal government on a one-week basis. this is too big an enterprise. it is hugely wasteful. at some point its got to stop. but, if you say to me, look, on...

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Egypt, everybody would be saying, why didnt the president do something? >> can i ask you about -- >> these are difficult choices. >> did speaker boehner raise any objections when he was briefed prior to the mission? >> i know there was a constant flow of information both to members and staff and of course the president had a conference with some members in person, others, many others, including the speaker on the phone. but we have no objection to anybody asking questions. but i think its import...

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