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The thing that confuses me, or neil, is why it took us a dozen years to discover for, for fitch to discover what everyones known, which is that that we are in a mess fiscally. and what im hoping is that this signaling will say to politicians or say to americans that anybody whos interested in talking seriously about the debt has to put on the table either taxes, military or entitlements, social security and medical spending. if youre not willing to put that on the table, then you either are not ...

S, jobs, jobs, and mantra of the basics. >> and they have said, it is all about politics in 2014 and he is taking the message to them coming up in tex he next hour. and coming up, susan page spoke to the economic council of advisers and here is the response to everything regarding the serious situation of deficit reform, and here is that. >> the president was very serious about wanting to negotiate, and he remains serious, but you need a partner to have a negotiation, and there has been no partn...

I am encouraged. gun control, we are seeing real achievement in the senate between republicans and democrats on immigration reform. a possible bill coming out, maybe even this week or beginning of next week. even on the budget. the president is challenging his own party and taking on his own party to get a deal done. >> lets face it, robert. that budge set going nowhere. going nowhere. >> what is going to be positive, though, carol, well see some structure for deficit reform. because the debt ce...

The economy. >> thats a tax increase. >> thats a tax increase. >> and cause it to crater. >> david? >> juan, as long as you support obama, as long as anyone supports obama they are complicit in obstructing any kind of deficit reform, any entitlement reform, any reduction, this is not serious. obama wants to have spending increases. he will never go along with simpson bowls for two primary reasons, one, it involves tax reform across the board. and it involves spending cuts. he will not go along w...

Have money. >> chris: and if it gets national it gets even tougher. >> shannon: you had representative paul ryan to talk about the president and what he laid out in the state of the union and where they go with putting the u.s. economy back together if there is any cooperation with the two. >> chris: and ryan who is the chairman of the house budget committee is going to put out a republican budget in a couple of weeks made it clear he doesnt think there were any specifics. he thought the state o...

ill ask about red hot democrats. stay here and hear how it plays out. im wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." weve been expecting the house to vote on raising the debt limit. but it has not happened yet. the debt deadline is looming larger than ever. the deal would raise the debt limit $900 billion in the short term and green light spending cuts of roughly the same amount over ten years. offset dollar for dollar by more spending cuts. theres a lot of huge ifs involved in making...

Indicated yet by how were they should raise the debt limit. they are not the party of "no," but the party of "no ideas." >>neil: could there be a method that biden is a trial balloon, say what you will, to open democrats to the possibilities of bringing in medicare and medicaid and laying the ground work for them and, maybe, even indicating the white house will take the hit for that. >>guest: no, it is a bait and switch, a campaign tactic. i dont think the white house is serious about deficit re...

Country. its symbolic. it doesnt mean anything. what means something is the 2012 budget. unless we do real deficit reform in the right way, fair, balanced, and reasonable, this country is in the duck soup. >> if you look at the elections next year, do you think given whats happened this week that democrats are poised to take over the house in 2012? >> i think if john painer and leaders of the republican party cannot control the tea party, yes, i think well be back. >> okay. ed rendell, always go...

Deficit reform. who is to blame here, and is there some credence to what paul ryan is proposing? >> youre asking two questions. number one, remember, the government shutdown is on this years budget. its a relatively small amount. the compromise -- >> less than 1%. >> right. a compromise should be made. the problem is, speaker boehner says $33 billion in cuts will do it and then renege on that because he didnt have the votes in his own caucus and, yes, governor pataki, that was because the tea pa...