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Democrats in less than an hour to talk about solutions to the debt. his opponents are off, a sneak peek at how negotiations are likely to go. >> the only way we see going forward is to cut spending, reform entitlement problems, programs, thats whatsç causi the deficit, not that we arent taking enough money out of the taxpayers pockets. thats not whats causing the deficit. >> senator bernie sanders independent from vermont, delighted to say he joins us capitol hill. good afternoon, sir. >> good...

The only way its going to get done dealing particularly with the entitlement problems. republicans are ready to meet him halfway. right now he seems to be very timid about taking the leadership role that the president typically takes in these battles. >> chuck todd is our political director. tell us whats going on here. you have republican whose are afraid to talk about social security and medicare on the house side and medicaid and pentagon spending. you have a white house that doesnt want to t...

Said hes going to take? >> none whatsoever. he cares about the deficit but didnt offer proposals. well get a better idea with the budget but no spectaculars in the speech. >> you know, dan, the president may have missed a moment here. i think particularly with his language on social security and medicare, it was all negative. you cant do this and that, but we need to reform it i think he misjudged the fact that a fair number of republican want to tackle these problems and had he gotten ahead tha...

We need to cut those so businesses know theres security. with cap and tax and democrat promises to ram through healthcare takeover, business are not expanding. >> were running out of time. whats the answer? >> the answer is to look to the free market solutions for entitlement problems, social security, paul rhine has a great proposal, looking at personal retirement accounts, allowing individuals to invest social security taxes in personal retirement for a better rate of return when individuals i...

He inherited two wars and financial collapse of our markets. so its been a tough go. this budget is a tough budget. the first priority needs to be to invest in job creation. we have to do it in a fiscally disciplined way. >> chet edwards was asking the budget office questions and pointed out they did not tackle the entitlement programs and did not tackle the mega spending that happened alongside social security or medicaid and they didnt put forward any kind of budget freeze. are there things th...

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How does he become a nonwashington, anti-washington guy again? thats what he was in the 80s and the early 90s. he can get that again? thats going to be very difficult for him more than any other of his hurdles. i think hes got a lot of hurdles. i think thats the hardest one. >> the reinvention of newt gingrich. well see it play out today. thank you so much, my friend, chuck todd. house republicans are sitting down with joe biden again tomorrow. so far theyre drawing the line on taxes. eric can...

Question that have no hope of happening. the republicans dont control the senate, they dont have the white house. that was a mistake. the second was some of the words i used. i was trying to say something that is important. we are at the beginning of a process of solving the entitlement problems of the united states. these are enormous challenges. i believe deeply, that the american people have to be an integral part. what ryan has done, hes starred that process. he has begun the opportunity, so...

Completely change medicare, turn it into a voucher program, where you give seniors some premium support and so that they can go out and buy private insurance? >> nothing hypothetical there. hypothetical baloney question. that is exactly what house republicans have already voted to do. this was gingrichs response to that question. >> i dont think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. >> so then gingrich told greta that introducing right wing social...

Shut down. >> were ice skating on labor day in the twin tiers. >> are you done? >> no. >> just curious. >> why do people live here if they dont have to, it is so cold and rainy. >> big baby. >> im going to move to boston. >> that will help you. >> every time i go to boston in the summer, its beautiful. i bet its nice up there. >> back to newt, with republicans continuing to attack newt gingrich for his criticism of paul ryans medical health care plan as radical, gingrich called ryan to apologize...