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Whether we can pay our mortgages chs leaders talk to each other get to the bottom of the problem and dont blame others and kick the can down the road. >> i do believe the president doesnt work hard enough bringing everybody into the white house rolling up his sleeves, getting him around the table saying how do we get this deal done? give a little something. show good faith about what needs to be done on deficit reduction and entitlement program. >> this isnt rocket science. politicians have to a...

Sleeves, having him in the living quarters, getting them around the table and saying how do we get this deal done? he didnt talk downstream about tax reform, for example. and i think it would have been helpful to him this morning to have said, look, we get this tax deal done, im here to help on medicare and social security reforms. weve got to address those instead of just saying, im going to protect the seniors who are there and the medicare and medicaid recipients. give a little something. sho...

Messages suggest. this puts the speaker in a box leading to collapse of plan "a" of $4 trillion debt deal and the slimmeded-down plan "b." >> in the course, i offered to compromise with republicans in congress. i met them halfway on taxes and more than halfway on spen spending. >> boehner is saying that the stumbling block will lead to taxes on red ink and says the president plan "c" unveiled friday increases tax rates on some and punting reform of the entitlement program on medicare to some poi...

In the previous meeting the two sides remain pfar apart on agreement. now they appear to be some what closer to a deal. president obama proposed some of the demands on spending cuts on entitlement program such as curtailing future inflation adjust ams for future recipients of social security. michael steele says any movement away from the unrealistic offer the president has made previously is a step in the right direction. proposal that includes 1.2 trillion in revenue for only 930 billion in sp...

Assistance to feed their families. we know how the economy has been over last couple years. so these things do work together. shannon bream is here. we have a new series, cost of spending. shannon will kick it off for us. when we talk about food stamps who really is paying the bill? >> the first obvious answer would be the american taxpayer. obviously this money funnels through the federal government but the fact is it goes beyond that. this is program you have to pay it out. federal government ...

One program is food stamps. well-intentioned, it has grown dramatically up 3% since president obama took office. it is exempt from the sequester cut that are part of the fiscal cliff. tonight, correspondent shannon bream on the expensive history of a costly benefit. >> the the precursor to todays food stamp program, substantial nutrition assistance program or snap is rooted in the late 1930s and early 40s when the federal officials look to solve two problems at once to make sure urban families i...

>> a lot of americans want to see compromise. according to the poll, 65% want a compromise balanced deal to reduce the deficit. even if they have to reduce the entitlement program like medicare and social security and the republicans on have to support increase in tax rates for the wealthy. of course you were playing a lot of clips from people open to compromise. it does seem to be the broad parameter that want a balanced deal. thats what john boehner and president obama are currently arguing ab...

Slow, steady, stagnation of europe to the mix. we could add uncertainty about where china is going to go. the troubling thing about the departure from the labor force of so many people that is offsetting the increment is jobs is that over time, it seems like the percentage of the society that is active in the labor force is stagnant or shrinking. that kicks back to all the problems she is talking about, the entitlement program and so forth, which depend on the active population to support them. ...

Its simple math. we agree on the same math, do we not? >> we do -- well, yes and no. but with respect to -- >> why? >> with respect to medicare, theres no doubt that you have a long-term problem with medicare costs. that is why we passed the affordable care act. that was a $716 billion in savings. as david pointed out on "meet the press," the irony -- >> you guys folded right into another entitlement program. >> wait a second. what they proposed not four weeks ago was adding $716 billion back in...

See rates go up, which is unusual to hear from someone, you know, in washington. it seems to be, you know, ill meet you halfway. that sort of talk. so my question to you is, are we now at a point in the united states senate or the house, the congress, in general, where ideology is so rigid on both sides, but specifically on the republican side, where ideology is now so rigid that the larger concept of the country of doing something for the country now finishes in second place? >> no, i dont thin...