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All line in the sand. then he can be the compromiser from there, if you will, go to the right of nancy pelosi on some of these issues. so no. i mean, there is a split there. and i think that theres a reality that the politics of this is dangerous for democrats. if they mess around too much, the interest groups that care about medicare and social security the most that would spend the most money, super pacs, all of that business. theyve kept quiet. theyve given the president running room on this ...

Due to an advanced age are no longer suited to the exercise of ministry." much more on that coming up in just a moment. for now, we go down to d.c., chief white house correspondent for "politico," mr. mike allen. good morning, mike. you guys are taking a look at the new voices in the effort to reform americas gun laws. theres also a new ad from gabby giffords and mark kellys super pac which will air tomorrow night during the state of the union. lets watch it. >> we have a problem where we shop, ...

The way through. but at the end of the day, you just have to look at a budget pie chart. the money is on the entitlements side, that weve got an aging society. weve got a lot of problems in terms of health care costs. if you dont deal with those things, theres not enough discretionary spending to ever balance the budget. you have to recognize the problem before you can solve it. in this case, i think shes just not seeing it. >> hey, chuck, is nancy pelosis position on entitlements is the positio...

Focused on deficits, spending and how to head off the looming sequestration cuts poised to kick in early next month. in separate interviews on sunday, house minority leader nancy pelosi and majority leader eric cantor laid out the economic dividing lines. >> what we need is growth. we need growth with jobs. and if you have spending cuts, education of our children and other investments like the national institutes of health where you are hindering growth, youre not going to reduce the deficit. so...

Werent they? all right. >> well, i thought the way chris christie dealt with the letterman issue was troubling. because i felt like he felt like he had to do it. i know for a fact that all those jokes that david letterman cracked and others were not funny to him. and he gets daily tweets that are really, really mean. and i guess this was the only way to deal with it, but i think its a sign of a bigger problem that we really ought to be able to have a conversation about weight that is serious and...

Have a spending problem, americans say, shes out of touch. when nancy pelosi says the problem with medicare is not medicare, americans say, shes out of touch. when barack obama says you know what? were going to fix this by raising taxes yet again, barack obama and nancy pelosi and the democratic party are out of touch. now, listen. ive been spending the past four years saying the republican party is out of touch, and theyre going to lose the presidential election because of it. and i was right. ...

Im not sure i agree with that. in "the new york times," a great must-read, quietly killing a consumer watchdog. its how the republicans are just doing everything they can not to have the consumer financial protection bureau that was created by elizabeth warren under president obama actually function because it would keep them, quite frankly, from being able to get their money from all their donors on wall street. and they do not want to lose the people who helped them out. so they want to make s...

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