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There is a strong growing majority in the congress that says enough is enough. we cant afford to continue to spend the way we are. weve talked about things like national -- or npr and amtrak, and national endowment of the arts. we need to get serious about making cuts and do it now. >> judge napolitano: your colleague, congressman west standing next to me that he will not vote to raise the national debt, no matter what promises the democrats make. he wont vote for continuing resolution, to use a...

Including entitlements and foreign subsidies and the military and taxes so republicans could have an interest in this and the new pennsylvania senator is our give. what do you think of that? widen the net. >>guest: the problem is, what they trying to do is avoid cutting the spending we need to cut now. remember, this is the c.r. is to fund the reminder of this fiscal year. it ends in october. the bill should have been done last year before i impact to the senate, by the way and they dont want to...

Right, unless you keep limping along, we are looking at shutting down next friday night. >>guest: there is likely to be another short-term extension which is a dysfunctional way to operate. >>neil: what would the extension? >>guest: another four weeks with another $4 billion in cuts so we are keeping in step with the cuts that were laid out by the house of representatives. >>neil: i thought your colleagues including rand paul, and they are not a fan of doing that, and, now, saying they will not....

Moment. listen carefully. >> there is an issue here on the budget because your own actuary has said, you cant double count! you cant count -- theyre attacking medicare on the c.r. when their bill, your law cut $500 billion in medicare. then youre also using the same $500 billion to what, say youre funding health care. your own actuary says you cant do both. whats a $500 billion cut for? preserving medicare or funding health care? >> using it to save medicare or using it to fund health care refor...

Offer a serious proposal for spending and cuts he would be willing to fight for. >>neil: what me is colorado democrat, strong words. what do you make of it? >>guest: i am on mission in my way to get our fiscal house in order and i think the president has to join the fray. the white house is concerned if they lay out a negotiating position then they are at a disadvantage but the president can make a real difference and we have talked. i want the fiscal commission recommendations implemented and o...

And democrats coming together on reasonable adjustments that can be made. >> heather: were going to have to wrap up this discussion quickly. let me ask both of you, jehmu, we have the march 18 deadline now to get this budget done. do you think well be extending it for another two weeks or do you think its possible for everyone to come to an agreement? >> i think it would be absolutely irresponsible if we are leading the federal government by having budget cuts for two-week periods at a time. no ...

Again, weve cut more money with this cr than in the history of the united states ten-fold. sometimes you have to be able to step back and say, job well done. a lot of work to do. this is a first step. theres a lot of work to do. but so far i think the speaker in this house has done an incredible job and put us in the right direction. >> roll up your sleeves my friend. have a great weekend. mazda is recalling 50,000 cars because of a bug in the engine. actually, its an arack nid. the yellow sac...

President submitted but $61 b l billion is on the table. shouldnt the democrats be forced to weigh in on that before they hash out an agreement? >> im not surprised. they didnt control a budget last year when they were in control of all houses. look, harry reid and president obama have embarrassed their party. president obama said im going to balance the budget. it was a campaign promise. hes sent a budget up to the hill recently thats embarrassing and now reid is further embarrassing the party ...

Of the free world, this he call him the leader of the free world for a reason. he is the person to whom congressional democrats look. there is a lot of frustration about where is the white house on the continuing resolution. >> theyre very upset. >> i was going to say cr, but i know thats washington speak. >> thats okay. weve already defined it. >> and he needs -- if you look back at where president clinton was, for example, when there was a threatened government shutdown he was out there speaki...

In the coming weeks i expect you will see more and from our team laying out how big this problem is. >> greta: we only have a two week budget the continuing resolution. we are going back into this trying to figure out what to do for the rest of the year is the hold up? why cant we get a budget to carry us through the rest of year? >> understand how we got into this problem. last year democrats didnt pass a budget. they didnt do any appropriation bills to fun the government from last october to n...