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He calls it the path to prosperity. but its already meeting opposition. kelly wright has details. good morning patti ann. paul ryan the chairman of the house committee says the budget process is washington is broken. house republicans will unveil a budget plan that ryan believes will change the course. in an op ed article in todays wall street journal ryan says it will reinvigorate the economy and reignite the american dream putting people back to work and earning higher wages. the path to get...

Year which is the path we are on which takes us away from ever balancing the budget which produces a debt crisis. that is the problem. the president has us on a path toward a debt crisis that hurts everybody. that brings us to a recession. gives us a european kind of experience we want to avoid. we want people going back to work. higher wages. more jobs. a growing economy. we get that by balancing the budget. >> chris: there are two sides to the argument. the president would say the spending cut...

Ever met on the streets here t8 years ago and she put my on the air. a shoutout to you. >> jamie: god bless you, father jonathan. >> eric: thank you, father. >> thank you. >> jamie: it has been more than a week since those automatic budget cuts took effect. the initial impact of the sweeping changes havent been as catastrophic as the obama administration had predicted. thats good news. but are we any closer to balancing the federal budget? paul ryan says he has a plan to get the nations finances...

Year which is the path we are on which takes us away from ever balancing the budget which produces a debt crisis. that is the problem. the president has us on a path toward a debt crisis that hurts everybody. that brings us to a recession. gives us a european kind of experience we want to avoid. we want people going back to work. higher wages. more jobs. a growing economy. we get that by balancing the budget. >> chris: there are two sides to the argument. the president would say the spending cut...

Would they rather put hundreds of thousands of jobs and our entire economy at risk just to protect a few special interest tax loophole that is benefit only the healthiest americans and biggest corporations? thats the choice. >> while the cuts would put the gvt government on a path towards a debt reduction, they are inkrimtat or a lot like a meat clever. it would force the f.a.a. to regularly furlough 4,000 workers a day which accounts for more than 10% of its entire staff. 125,000 families would...

And the ceo will be at the state of the union. this is the first and foremost thing we can do is get a budget passed. the republicans are strong and that sets a plan to put us on a path to agreeing this economy. >> the economy is the largest issue that the american public cares the most about. an emotional issue that has a touch stone in my home state of connecticut with the shooting tragedy there. there will be gabrielle giffords and a colleague of yours. ted nugent is outspoken in favor of gun...

Here for his first live interview since the election. chairman, welcome back to meat meet. >> great to be back with you. >> lets talk about this top priority of the budget battle. it will really mark the beginning of the presidents second term. the debt ceiling has been raised, at least temporarily, but there are still big decisions to be made. you specifically said in the last few days that your priority is to make a big down payment on the debt. a debt crisis that you see in this country. >> t...

Chairman, welcome back to "meet the press." >> great to be back with you. >> lets talk about this top priority of the budget battle. it will really mark the beginning of the presidents second term. the debt ceiling has been raised, at least temporarily, but there are still big decisions to be made. you specifically said in the last few days that your priority is to make a big down payment on the debt. a debt crisis that you see in this country. >> thats right. >> what do you specifically require...

Talks. could we get the grand bargain that was aborted a year ago? >> im not sure were going to get the grand bargain, the one with the big pieces that kind of get us on a path so we dont have to revisit these issues in this way, but i think it looks more likely were going to get a deal that will prevent us from going off the fiscal cliff and probably going to be a deal that the white house will be happy with. i think its increasingly clear that the white house has the upper hand, theyre better ...

Missions. so these are the people hes retained that we have to -- this is really important. we have 6,539 people we lost in these two wars. afghanistan we had the longest war. >> you were in afghanistan. >> i was in iraq. we have over 50,000 people injured. on top of foreign policy, if i could say, howard, veterans peace. im not confident that governor romney understands what the commitment means to veterans. he proposed the voucherization of the va. to voucherize the va. not dissimilar to what ...