that john boehner said about how we have handled deficits over the years. let s listen to this. at some point, washington has to deal with its spending problem. now, i ve watched them kick this can down the road 22 years that i ve been here. i ve had enough of it. it s time to act. that is i m trying to think of a word other than lie. kick the can down the road? we had a big tax increase in 1993 with president clinton along with big spending cuts. right. it was a deficit reduction package that worked. they continued to do more deficit reducing package with newt gingrich on the spending side throughout the decade and we re on our way to a surplus. that s right. i ve been calling it the undecade, the 1990s has been written out of their record. they would have you believe that it was always the way it was under reagan and then bush. why don t they just say, leave off the clinton tax increase, which helped a lot, and just claim they did it for
that john boehner said about how we have handled deficits over the years. let s listen to this. at some point, washington has to deal with its spending problem. now, i ve watched them kick this can down the road 22 years that i ve been here. i ve had enough of it. it s time to act. that is i m trying to think of a word other than lie. kick the can down the road? we had a big tax increase in 1993 with president clinton along with big spending cuts. right. it was a deficit reduction package that worked. they continued to do more deficit reducing package with newt gingrich on the spending side throughout the decade and we re on our way to a surplus. that s right. i ve been calling it the undecade, the 1990s has been written out of their record. they would have you believe that it was always the way it was under reagan and then bush. why don t they just say, leave off the clinton tax increase, which helped a lot, and just claim they did it for spending cuts? because if they
remains unclear. thank you so much for that. that wraps up this hour of jansing and company. i m richard lui. chris will be back tomorrow. thomas, my 49ers lost. i owe you some bucks here. here s my dollar. i will wear the hat here, too. this is very good. i like this. i will run away now. congratulations. thank you very much. we have been friends and colleagues for a long time. not anymore. that s it. good morning, everybody. great to see you today. next hour, the president taking his agenda to curb gun violence on the road a week in advance of his state of the union address. the president is heading to minnesota, where that state has cracked down successfully on gun violence with better background checks. can its state program be used as a national policy? meanwhile, the gun violence and immigration debates rage on and the reality of sequestration looms with just one month to go in washington, d.c. can congress come up with a deficit reduction package that serves al
doubt, what has been happening throughout the last 24 hours very carefully. we ve been watching our cameras here. we see speaker boehner coming and going. this has certainly not been an easy time for the speaker. no. if and when he does take the senate bill to the floor, do you consider that an act of bravery on his part? well, i i would just say finally, finally. because we had an opportunity so many other times to bring a bill to the floor that was balanced. that s what president obama and democrats have called for all along. we ve never said it has to be all our way. we ve been willing, and will continue to support significant spending cuts to reduce our deficit. we know we need to make sure that the wealthiest americans pay a little more to add to that deficit reduction package. we know we re going to need entitlement savings. this is the first step towards significant deficit reduction. we would have prefer to do it in the $4 trillion deal that president obama proposed, bu
president should lead right now not cast blame. correspondent s henry is live from the white house. he is frustrated going on a talk show today in the middle of the negotiations. he has not been on one of the programs since 2009. he felt it was important to get the message out there. you are right he was pounding the same message again and again f. we go up the fiscal cliff for not meeting them halfway. not because democrats and congre congre congress don t want to go ahead and cooperate but i think it has been hard for speaker boehner and republican mcconnell to accept the fact taxes on wealthiest should go up a little bit sweas well as a deficit reduction package. if they can t say yes to good offers i have an obligation to make sure the entire burden of