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Kirsten powers and kind indicated columnist charles krauthammer. for secondly day were getting into it. this is tough to swallow but those two statements from the budget director, one a couple weeks ago and one when he worked with president clinton are very different? >> what lew said ten years ago is true. the social security trust fund is a fiction. its a fraud. it doesnt exist. its a box in west virginia with a bunch of pieces of paper. when you have fica have taken out of paychecks it doesnt...

Budget director jack luce wrote this in u.s.a. today just a couple weeks ago, looking for the next two decades, social security does not cause deficits. social security benefits are entirely self-financing. the trust fund will have adequate resources to pay full benefits for the next 26 years. here is what jack lew said. they are able to finance it goes on to say they are not real economic assets to be drawn down, instead, claims will when redeemed. they would have to raise taxes and borrowing...

employees of most collective bargaining rights. we have two reports tonight, steve brown with todays developments. good evening, steve. >> reporter: good evening, brett. governor walker has been telegraphing the move reiteratelogy, revamping union rules or layoffs. >> i dont want anybody laid off and 1500 state workers. >> they returned after two week continuous occupation last night around 10:00 p.m. dane county judge ordered protestors can be inside during regular hours, but may not ...

Its slices more than a billion dollars from social security. billion, which means half a million seniors no hor paid social security their entire lives wouldnt be able to get the benefits from them. there is nobody to process the claims. >> brett: senate majority leader talking about the house republican $61 billion in spending cuts, the proposal saying that part of that will take from social security administration. what he said in the release according to his office that seniors that paid in i...

Krauthammer. for secondly day were getting into it. this is tough to swallow but those two statements from the budget director, one a couple weeks ago and one when he worked with president clinton are very different? >> what lew said ten years ago is true. the social security trust fund is a fiction. its a fraud. it doesnt exist. its a box in west virginia with a bunch of pieces of paper. when you have fica have taken out of paychecks it doesnt end up in the box. it goes to the treasury which sp...

steve brown with todays developments. good evening, steve. >> reporter: good evening, brett. governor walker has been telegraphing the move reiteratelogy, revamping union rules or layoffs. >> i dont want anybody laid off and 1500 state workers. >> they returned after two week continuous occupation last night around 10:00 p.m. dane county judge ordered protestors can be inside during regular hours, but may not bring in cooking gear, bed rolls and no new signs may be posted. >> coming ba...

dealing with entitlements. carl cameron reports on what republican lawmakers plan to do about the entitlement issue but we begin with white house correspondent mike emanuel on the sales pitch. >> the morning after his $3.7 trillion budget was released he held a news conference to defend it. >> the first step is to make sure we are stabilizing the current situation. >> he has taken a great deal of heat by not offering plans for bloated entitlements and medicare and medicaid. he is not t...

We cant afford to wait until markets collapse. >> reporter: conrad, a fiscal hawk says he saw no effort to tackle the long term debt crisis. jack luce says they are trying to move gradually to avoid a shock to the system. >> we have to stop adding to it and this budget would get us there. >> before the committee the reception was more chilly. >> he punted. he said confronting our debt head-on, president has presented us with a budget, spends too much and borrows too much and taxes too much and t...