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Story. whats unfortunately not typical and tragic is that his parents died within 15 months of one another when lindsey graham was in college. his sister was just 13 years old. he had to really be a father figure to his sister. eventually he adopted her in order for her to get military benefits. hard for him to talk about it. hell talk about it here and his sister will introduce him. in doing so one thing hell say as it relates to policy is that unlike a lot of republicans who perhaps dont under...

They live longer. you go to a retirement home its 10/1. would courageous steps to try to save this system and keep it solvent, would that win points for a guy or simply scare the other people? which way are they going to hear it? >> christie is going to try to have to hang onto the thought that this is for future generations because his opponents are going to try to fuzz that line up and scare the old people away. what is interesting is that christie now has said a marker out there and the other...

People see it as a tax increase, and not a problem, but keep it here and are we in a crisis, because we are 20 years solvent, right? >> the crisis element is the xraj rated and people talk about entitlements threatening to the country, but it is not. you can tinker around the margins in the way that you just described for instance and keep it solvent for a long time. theres only so much that we talk about the projections of the 20-plus years into the future, and little, and relatively small chan...

The american peoples taxes with the upper 2% paying. he won the election based on that explicit proposal. >> and the house from their election -- the house won their election to stop him. the house also won, lanny. >> 535 congressional districts, most of which have little opposition, exain capture be cao voting for president. >> they did not vote to give him a rubber stamp. >> to go back to your question, 98% tax cut. by the way, john kennedy cut taxes to bracket about twice where we are today, ...

Dont know whether its in delight youre grg to oing to b holdout. a friend of mine, frank sullivan, lives up there, regularly tells me about the unemployment situation in your state, the need of a lot of seniors who rely on medicare and medication and social security. is that going to be your position, no deal if it involves those programs? >> well, i think the president has already said that social security should be outside of this discussion. it has not contributed to the deficit, and it shoul...

They have to be reformed to save the program and to keep the country from going into a greek-reich status. there are $8.6 trillion of unfunded like the in social security. to make it solvent the next 75 years, you valid to put $8 trillion in the bank today. for medicare, its three times that, so if you dont reform entitlements, you will never avoid the coming grief. post-election, democrats have the wind behind their back, the president does on this. is there any appetite for this or is it going...

Will make that determination. but i think his behavior during that incident was not just questioned by people like me, it was broadly questioned. >> i want to ask one other economic point here. the president in virginia beach, virginia, on thursday talking about his approach to the economy ifixing the debt. this is what he said. >> during campaign season, you always hear a lot about patriotism. well, you know what? its time for a new economic patriotism. an economic patriotism rooted in the beli...

Questioned by people like me, it was broadly questioned. >> i want to ask one other economic point here. the president in virginia beach, virginia, on thursday talking about his approach to the economy ifixing the debt. this is what he said. >> during campaign season, you always hear a lot about patriotism. well, you know what? its time for a new economic patriotism. an economic patriotism rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins with a strong and thriving middle class. >> invoking p...

Thriving middle class. >> invoking patriotism. so raising taxes on wealthier americans, the president considers that patriotic. i assume he thinks sacrifice is patriotic. and yet hes not spending much time talking specifically about what he would do. like how he would cut the medicare program to make it solvent. beyond the cuts that hes talked about, and when sim son-bowles says he needs much more dramatic cuts. so framing this as patriotism, about taxing the wealthy. but not talking about where...

Pretzel and trying to explain the fact that ryans budget has similar medicare savings and bankrupts medicare over time. the presidents budget keeps it solvent. that is not true at all. >> gretchen: crystal. >> i dont know how she can stand with a straight face. the truth is president obama is trying to end medicare as he knows it. excuse me let me finish. three and half years unemployment has been above 8 percent. gretchin, you are right. president wants gut 716 billion by cutting costs to provi...