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Either one of them. i tried to contact the company that they -- that they were involved with that invested in these loans. and they wouldnt give a comment either. you know, i think its -- when these people did these loans and they took -- took these bailout moneys, i dont think they expected it would become public. remember at the time, all of the transactions were going to be confidential. they only became public because of an act of congress. so i think this is a big surprise for a lot of the ...

Theyll come to some kind of a deal. in the meantime, one of the big issues are what they call these riders, and these are things that really dont have anything to do with the budget, like killing planned parenthood, killing npr funding, this kind of thing. so, they have to work their way through these riders that the house republicans attached to the budget and then theyll come to an agreement. >> you talk about john boehner kind of putting himself in a corner. how about the president having put...

Cant be touched. the real money in the entitlements, social security and medicare and medicaid, and unless we do something about those, you cant balance the budget. you cant fix the deficit or the national debt by killing npr or national endowment for the humanities or the arts. nice political chatter, but that doesnt do it, and im very put off when people just say lets go back and freeze to the level two years ago. dont tell me youre going to freeze to a level. that usually is a very inefficien...

And medicare and medicaid, and unless we do something about those, you cant balance the budget. you cant fix the deficit or the national debt by killing npr or national endowment for the humanities or the arts. nice political chatter, but that doesnt do it, and im very put off when people just say lets go back and freeze to the level two years ago. dont tell me youre going to freeze to a level. two years ago. that usually is a very inefficient way of doing it. tell me what youre going to cut, an...

Vote on it because the president had said you need to have, i think, it was 14 votes out of the 19 and they could not get 14 yes votes so will they -- will the president come back to some of those ideas? he alluded to the fact after the bust of the deficit panel that he actually likes some of those ideas. so now republicans are saying will we hear about those in the state of the union address? >> yeah, and essentially, the feeling is were going to cut the deficit. just not now. thats what the de...