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The knife. adam green, co-founder of the progressive change campaign says -- yesterday on abcs "this week" congressman keith ellison squared off on the issue with former obama economic at visor steve rattner. >> there has to be a compromise, $16 trillion deficit, youre not going to solve all that with tax increases or discretionary cuts. we can talk about how we do it -- >> get specific, steve, because when you start talking about fixing the entitlement program, were clear, social security is of...

Difficulties put forth by government spending at the rates that they have been. so when it comes to the fiscal cliff, our young voters more than ever want to make sure that our republicans and our candidates that are putting forth the message of working together to get this problem solved. i think whether you look at this simpson bowles plan or other things, we need to make sure were work together and putting these important issues forth. >> rick: lets talk about entitlement reform. thats anothe...

Instantly $150 billion. is that correct? >> thats true, because the v.a. has the ability to negotiate prices with the drugmakers. and the medicare part "d" program, prescription "d" program doesnt have that because of the way the law was passed and republicans wouldnt go along with that. so we have a lot of ability here to reduce unnecessary spending by doing some things that would make a lot of sense just like the v.a. does it. >> so what do you make of the republicans saying they dont see the ...

Laid out something that does reduce the entitlement program significantly. and now its going to be up to the republicans to say if this -- the president to say if this is not good enough, then tell us what is. >> so one republican talking point is that doctors will no longer take medicare patients because of obama care and other measures. whats your assessment of that? >> i dont think thats the case at all. in fact, this doesnt actually increase the number of medicare beneficiaries and it doesnt...

Passed and republicans wouldnt go along with that. so we have a lot of ability here to reduce unnecessary spending by doing some things that would make a lot of sense just like the v.a. does it. >> so what do you make of the republicans saying they dont see the hard numbers? they dont see the cuts? >> theyre just being very disingenuous and they dont want to be the ones to bring a plan to the table. and theyre going to have to do that when it comes right down to it, because the president has lai...

>> its a terrible position for the republicans to be in. their only negotiating coin right now. and to give in without doing something to figure out these entitlement program would be a disaster for the republican party. megyn: michael, thanks. coming up, a provocative column in the "wall street journal" on race in america.

This? obama is acting like i want to work with the republicans if they will only come to terms with these tax and give way. this is about spending, too. yes, a little bit of taxes. the bigger picture is about an entitlement program and cutting this spending. enough. megyn: wouldnt it be interesting if the republicans said you want tax hikes on the rich, you got it. then said, now the base in your court, what is your plan for reducing the deficit on the debt. would you please let us know what you...

Everything extend for three to six months, and put them off, allow all of the bush rates including those you are saying for the upper income, and hash it out in the new congress and new year. how likely is that? the president and suspectly a lost his backers are saying dont bunch an inch on this. >>guest: well, i know, and there has been a lot of rhetoric even in the last two difficulties and part of the problem i see is they seem to be negotiating in the media and that is never a great place un...

Made." this is today. the cut previously made. im scratching my head to figure out what cuts the democrats made prior that they want credit for. if they did make credit cuts why did we run up four more years in a row? start fresh right now. talk about cuts and then talk about how are we going to raise revenues. >> eric: what would -- >> dana: what would harry reid mean by that? get credit on cuts they made. on what? >> bob: that is a $60,000 question. im not sure what he is talking about. but i ...

Strongly urge congress to pursue comprehensive tax reform that lowers rates on all forms of business income while enacting significant entitlement reforms that put the federal budget on sustainable fiscal path." coburn says too much of the fiscal cliff debate focused on increasing taxes when cuts and reform are needed. >> we can take all the revenue and it wouldnt the problem. the real answer is as we have a demographic shift that is coming. to entitlement program that increased benefit without ...