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>> i think we are all aware that we have some urgent business to do. we have got to make sure that taxes dont go up on middle class families and our economy remains strong that we are creating jobs and thats an agenda democrats and republicans and independents, people all across the country share. >> reporter: republican leaders gave no indication they are willing to entertain the idea that the president wants them to, namely the raising of tax rates on some particular categories of income earne...

Plus deficit and maybe the cuts would have been more dramatic or the growth would have been more dramatic without them but the fact of matter is we are piling up $16.2 trillion if debt right now and that is unabated. >>guest: right, but what i was going to say on entitlement program, both medicaid and medicare, there are ways to fine savings in both of those programs without fundamentally changing them. >>neil: tell me one thing you would do for medicare? raise the age? >>guest: no, i would look...

Said about obama hamming the cards. obama is not running again. its not going to help him if his popularity increases. he wrecks the american economy. by sending in to a recession by going over the cliff. its terrible policy to do what would happen unless obama yids somewhat in his deman on the higher rates. we will have defense cuts and destroy the military and cause res ig neigh on principle and end us to recession and not solve the entitlement program. we have the worst economy. entitlement o...

Code. i would do that, if the president were serious about solving our spending problem and trying to secure our entitlement program. im the most reasonable, responsible person in washington. the president knows this. he knows he and i can work together. >> i admitted this to my staff, i really like john boehner in spite of myself. i sort of like his, kind of like good old boy sort of, you know, kind of doesnt take himself too seriously when he says it. you can see the smile he cracks. mitch mcc...

John boehner has drawn a line in the sand about how republicans will approach negotiations over the next seven weeks or so and while he is okay with increased revenue, he says it needs to come from tax reform. not tax rate increases. >> raising taxes on small business people is the wrong prescription given where our economy is. >> is it on the table to talk about it? >> i made clear yesterday that raising tax rates is unacceptable. frankly, it couldnt even pass the house. putting increased reven...

Prescription given for our economy. >> is it on the table to talk about. >> i made clear that raising tax rates are unacceptable and frankly couldnt pass the house. putting revenues on the table and reforming our tax code and i would do that if the president were serious about solving our spending problem and trying to secure our entitlement program. >> brian: going to sit down and talk. but hes saying short term for now and wait for the new congress to get settled in and nothing major gets done...

Actually an accurate representation of what the romney-ryan team have put forward. frankly, i thought that when governor romney chose paul ryan to be his vice president he was willing to say that take a look at pauls work with regard to the entitlement program, with regard to the budget, with regard to tax policy and say, look, this is where the discussion ha to begin. >> shepard: i understand that the truth is, when pressed about specifics of what you have just brought up, the ryan budget, gove...

Ought to lay out what the deductions are? >> dana: no. >> eric: you know, well, whatever. sure, why not, why not say here, well post loopholes on xyz. thats fine. it wont hurt. >> greg: we end up talking about loopholes all the time. mitt will lose. there are huge issues here. i go back to benghazi. you go to high unemployment. there is serious -- >> dana: if you are going to talk about the economy, then certainly there will be a question tonight about the entitlement program. most importantly s...

And thats definitely true now that the supreme court has upheld its constitutionality. yet it doesnt seem to be that front and center on the campaign trail any more. what do you make of it? >> there are other issues the romney campaign is trying to get across that they are not very effective at getting across. its not necessarily the front burner issue. its part and parcel of the role of government and government spending and whether we can afford these entitlement program. what alan said is par...

Your cost of living is increasing at a certain level and you cant get the money out of your pension, lot of people are going to turn to the entitlement program. the solution, lets get the economy going, lets get more tax dollars into these pensions. that is really where a lot of money comes from. i do a lot of consulting on foundations and pension plans, a lot of these pensions are going to have to start taking a little greater risk with their money. many of them are sitting there in treasury bi...