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Lets listen to the details. >> good morning, everyone. 10 days into the government shutdown and just today the president has invited house republicans to have a discussion about the way forward. were hopeful, were hopeful this is the beginning of a meaningful dialogue with the president about the important issues that face this country. were hopeful that these will be good faith negotiations over the long-term debt drivers, or the drivers of our debt, over our the security we need for this count...

Well only bring in eight days of revenue to send us to fund the federal government. what about the other 350 plus days? it makes it sound like the panacea is only on one side. we need to have tax reform. we need to bring tax reform, to cut taxes and we need to reform our debt drivers which are social security and medicare. >> i want to ask you about one other thing, its gotten a lot of attention earlier this week. house republicans named their committee chairman for a wide variety of communities...

Historic average as opposed to being low right now? you will be stuck with massive interest payments. >> and we are with amnesia of how we got into this with two unfunded wars. >> and the bush -- >> and i want to show you a actual pie chart about what were the drives of -- and we are big fans of the pie charts so there are debt drivers here that are not about the president obama spending. >> absolutely right. >> these are spending that happened certainly under bush, but part of it is driven. >> ...

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