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thats the part that, for me, i just say, lets do something now. lets be united and do something. >> yeah. i understand. i want to play for you something that senator chuck schumer said about this, about people showing up outside the homes of public officials, basically, he was saying it comes with the territory. so, listen to this. >> theres protests three, four times a week outside my house. thats the american way to peacefully protest is okay. >> and so, do you agree that peacefully ...

That i could have him play chess with me. i dont want to lose that, and i dont deserve to lose that, because i paid into medicare, just like you do and everyone else every two weeks. >> why do you think this has happened? why do you think that after trying to repeal obamacare and realizing how unpopular that would be, one of the ways to pay for this tax bill, to bring it in under the allowable amount that it could bring under the de deficit would be to repeal the mandate, that means the pool wil...

Fatigue out there, and you go on the talk about the cuts and the president talks about the cuts and how devastating it is going to be, and the public says, i am tired of it, and you say it every couple of weeks and what to believe, and that is why the public is not as engaged as the president thought they would be. >> and also the name sequester does not help. it is a bad name. >> armageddon needs to be in there somewhere. >> yes, march 1 is armageddon might have been better. >> yes, a focus gro...

Keep praying, lord, keep us from ourselves. >> well, this guy is great. >> save us from ourselves. >> it is not save us from ourselves, but save frus the -- from the decisions made by a small group of people who have made decisions for the vast majority of the country, and we have to frankly remember why we are in this pickle at all because of a level of debt and deficit brought to us not by the president and not by someone who was elected in 2008, but the biggest four drivers of the fiscal prob...

And half of those families have a member that is either a person with disabilities or is elderly, and as a policy choice, i would like people to raise their hands if they think that is a good priority to make that kind of cut. >> that we will cut and balance this deficit that we are bringing down and doing it on the backs of those with disabilities and with the elderly. >> that is right. >> when i come back, i want to give you this more amy, because i want to ask you next not only what is going ...

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