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Here give the 5.7 billion, maybe more, but put down that none of it can go to the wall. theres going to be magic math that has to happen to get something lawmakers can support. i dont think it would be that complicated but something the president can claim for a win if and when theres no border wall money in it. thats a difficult task. >> garrett, good to you see in the halls of the capitol let me bring in phil rucker, and yamiche alcindor, and jonathan allen. phil, to you, my friend. you got th...

>> reporter: of course weve had more nominee drama here at the white house. the presidents pick for navy secretary, phillip bilden, has withdrawn his name due to complications with his business interests. besides the meeting today with the national governors association, the president is also expected to meet with top congressional leaders. and no doubt one of the things on the conversation list will be the presidents big speech tomorrow on the hill. back to you. >> joe johns for us at the white...

>> and florida was the one, though, where i think on election day, a lot of folks that i worked with, jeb bushs office, early in the day said, it isnt going to happen here. obviously romneys magic math that they believed had him sweeping some of those big states that mccape had lost. so -- mccain had lost. i was impressed, romney didnt lay any blame at anyones feet in the interviews with you. hes still a very impressive human being. can you talk about romneys humanity and dignity. >> youre absol...

It is great to have you. we need your help today. >> you know what makes me sad about that twitter discussion. >> whats that? >> those were 140 character bites more substantive than almost any of the tax discussions in the media or in washington. they were beating us in 140 characters. >> the presidents twitter -- you have to -- in too many abbreviations but im getting ahead of myself here. lets talk about those substantive tweets which is to say, i want to talk about the closing of loopholes. i...

Poor folks but say nothing about how he would pay for his tax cuts given hes got no record of paying for them. makes folks in the budget world suspicious. if he doesnt and he just assumes magic math the tax cuts will pay for themselves through growth, this will destroy the deficit. >> destroy the deficit and a massive, massive transfer of american resources from the poorest people in the country to the richest people in the country. and those are all the specifics we have. ezra, thank you very m...

We will get down to 20% of gdp in spending, thats $500 billion in cuts in 2016 alone. hes not giving anywhere near that level of cuts. theres really a fight here as to whether or not the gop can remain vague on the consequences of not raising taxes and the president can be -- can convince people what the consequences of not raising taxes will actually be. >> yeah, and whether the concept of magic math can carry a party to victory in november. ezra klein, as always, thank you for your insight and...

the turn too late. >> and also in politics, newt gingrich is making up some ground you might call it. he is closing the gap the front-runner mitt romney in south carolina. trouble may be brewing, though. his daughters are having to come to his defense after an interview which is scheduled for today is about to go after him from his ex-wife. >> and a rare winter storm that pounded the pacific northwest. it is now heading east. rob is tracking the forecast. where it will go next and how ...

meeting between the president and his top party leaders in congress? >> reporter: as far as we know, the president is meeting right now with senate majority leader harry reid and with leader pelosi from the house, the leader of the minority in the house. and we dont have details on this yet, its a closed press meeting, meaning we didnt even get our pool cameras inside to get a glimpse of this, but we know from a white house official that they are meeting here at the white house and wer...

Obama care. thats the only serious effort we ever had as a country to get health costs under control. if you want to talk about spending what we spend in the private secretary and the public sector on health okay health reform is the only way to bring that down. and so getting serious about spending means getting serious about defending health reform. in political terms. i also think that getting serious about the deficit means talking about the magic math that says that when you reduce tax reve...