the white house right now. the president is wrapping up a rare meeting with house speaker john boehner. the private sitdown in the oval office, the first since december of 2012 when they failed to reach an agreement on tax reform and spending cuts during the deficit reduction talks. a wide range of topics said to be on today s agenda. ed henry is live with the story. what are you hearing about this meeting? well, what we re hearing from both sides is that there are a range of issues they want to talk about. mostly the president wants to get his agenda going on capitol hill. speaker boehner expressed reservations not just about key parts of the president s agenda like i mean grigs immigration reform but saying that republicans are concerned about the president talking so much about going around congress on other issues like changes to his health care law and interesting that secretary sebelius was on huff post live today, was pressed on whether or
to the vulnerable? i say read it. we don t do anything to people on ssi. we don t do anything with food stamps. we don t do anything with people on unemployment. get your use your bean instead of listening to crap all day long from the right and the left. that s actually pretty tame compared to some other things he said about the folks involved in deficit reduction talks. if you have if you re a politician and get up and say i know we re going to get this done, get rid of all earmarks, all waste, fraud, and abuse, all foreign aid, air force one, all congressional pensions, that s a sparrow belch in the midst of a typhoon. quit the phoniness. quit the crap. a lot of blood, hair, and eyeballs have to lay on the floor. quit the hypocrisy. quit the disgust. quit embarrassing america. this is a suicide mission. we ll get it from all sides, the right, the left. everybody knows you don t like each other, and you re trying to pretend you do. give up the pettiness. go see the movie lin
we don t do anything with people on unemployment. get your use your bean instead of listening to crap all day long from the right and the left. that s actually pretty tame compared to some other things he said about the folks involved in deficit reduction talks. if you have if you re a politician and get up and say i know we re going to get this done, get rid of all earmarks, all waste, fraud, and abuse, all foreign aid, air force one, all congressional pensions, that s a sparrow belch in the midst of a typhoon. quit the phoniness. quit the crap. a lot of blood, hair, and eyeballs have to lay on the floor. quit the hypocrisy. quit the disgust. quit embarrassing america. this is a suicide mission. we ll get it from all sides, the right, the left. everybody knows you don t like each other, and you re trying to pretend you do. give up the pettiness. go see the movie lincoln. go see the movie lincoln. that last bit of advice makes sense. before you can do something grand, you
get your use your bean instead of listening to crap all day long from the right and the left. that s actually pretty tame compared to some other things he said about the folks involved in deficit reduction talks. if you have if you re a politician and get up and say i know we re going to get this done, get rid of all earmarks, all waste fraud and abuse, all foreign aid, air force one, all kngsal pensions, that s a sparrow belch in the midst of a typhoon. quit the phoniness, a lot of blood hair and eyeballs have to lay on the floor. quit the hypocrisy. quit the disgust. quit embarrassing america. this is a suicide mission. we ll get it from all sides, the right, the left. everybody knows you don t like each other and you re trying to pretend you do. give up the pettiness. go see the movie lincoln. go see the movie lincoln. that last bit of advice makes sense. before you can do something grand you need to know what grand looks like. i think simpson is playing an important part
the affordable care act reduces the deficit. so the question is, what games are being played? and, basically, what i m saying to the speaker is, please don t play games. exercise the leadership that i know you re capable of. and stand up and let folks know that we ve got to move forward. okay. congressman elijah cummings, great to have you with us tonight. good to be with you, ed. appreciate your time here on the ed show. we have an update on our report on debt negotiations from last night. we told you about a bloomberg news report on seven democratic senators from solidly red states who were up for re-election in 2014. the report identified these senators as possible defectors from the party s position on taxes. the ed show was contacted by senator jay rockefeller of west virginia today and his office issued this statement. they are saying, as deficit reduction talks continue, i m squarely focused on making sure the middle class and the most vulnerable aren t left to