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Well bring the results later on in the show. joining me tonight is congressman emanuel cleaver from missouri. great to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> id like to talk about the congressional black caucus if i could. they have been very, very strong about do not touch the entitlements, were not going to move on this. so you have the president not moving on rates. you have your caucus moving on entitlements. although you said the democratic leadership -- you said you could support mea...

Put social security in a discussion as we are trying to get a deal. medicare can, i think, be massaged in terms of means testing. with the upper income individuals paying more or sometimes all of their medical expenses, it makes no sense for the government to pay medicare costs for someone earning $700,000 a year. so i think we can do some means testing. but by no means am i saying it should be low enough so our elderly and poorist americans are going to pay for the deficit. but we want a deal. ...

Sign. we know the president and john boehner have talked but they wont say what about. its like a code of silence has descended on the white house. the fact were not hearing much about whats being said is probably a good sign. >> you mentioned some entitlement reforms and social security. a lot of the democrats that ive had on this program have said social security is not on the table at all. means testing, medicare, something entirely different. are you hearing that social security might be som...

For the upper -- >> i think that the president, democrats will compromise. will, i think will look at doing means testing. that is a real possibility if they can get the rates. in other words, if it is part of a bargain to get the rate to 37 or up there, and we mean test -- parties arent that far apart on the mandatory cuts. republicans are offering $300 billion. democrats are offering $250 billion. i think we can close the gap there. i think they can close on the means testing. i think cpi, as ...