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Ayotte. welcome to the program. thanks for being me. >> ithanks sean. >> the bill tabled. in other words, thisth is the second time that the house of representatives as it relates to the debt ceiling has passed the bill and the bill has been tabled at least temporarily on this one. they are not even taking the bill up, correct? >> that is exactly right. more evidence, clear and really unavoidable evidence that the senate democrats are unwilling to even so much as have a debate about a measure th...

The tavis smileys and the whoopi goal bedrooms -- whoopi goldbergs dont want to talk about what a incompetent president we have leading us on a path to an economic melt done. it is not about the color of his skin it is the content of his policies which are failing. >> sean: he cant run on his record. >> i feel bad tavis and whoopi feel as they do. i work with hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. they are black, white, hispanic, male, female, old, young. they dont talk about in. they talk abou...

The tavis smileys and the whoopi goal bedrooms -- whoopi goldbergs dont want to talk about what a incompetent president we have leading us on a path to an economic melt done. it is not about the color of his skin it is the content of his policies which are failing. >> sean: he cant run on his record. >> i feel bad tavis and whoopi feel as they do. i work with hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. they are black, white, hispanic, male, female, old, young. they dont talk about in. they talk abou...

>> congressman, good morning, peggy noonan here. when the republican conference in the house gets together and you talk about spending and you talk about efforts to control it, you talk about the debt and deficit, does the conversation among you ever turn to the cost and expense of iraq and afghanistan? does the conversation ever turn to how does foreign affairs fit into this? what are we spending? what might we be saving? what are the implications of that fact as we look at debt and deficit? >>...

Reform social security, medicare and medicaid because we all know right now those are the principal drivers that have us on a path thats not sustainable. to save those programs for future generations, we have to be adults and reform them now. >> okay. congressman joe walsh of illinois, congressman ruehl grijalva of arizona, thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. >> ill stipulate that social security is not a problem in the budgetary long run. medicaid and medicare are. when the president ...

You can go after energy subsidies. can you go after farm subsidies. look, can you go after all of this stuff, but its irresponsible to say we cant reform social security, medicare and medicaid because we all know right now those are the principal drivers that have us on a path thats not sustainable. to save those programs for future generations, we have to be adults and reform them now. >> okay. congressman joe walsh of illinois, congressman raul grijalva of arizona, thanks for joining me. >> th...

Principal drivers that have us on a path thats not sustainable. to save those programs for future generations, we have to be adults and reform them now. >> okay. congressman joe walsh of illinois, congressman ruehl grijalva of arizona, thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. >> ill stipulate that social security is not a problem in the budgetary long run. medicaid and medicare are. when the president and republicans agreed to keep the government open for business on friday, they made a dea...

The baseline budget by $1 trillion. the president has set us on a path of higher spending and the budget that he laid out there, which i dont think was meant to be taken seriously, continues on the same path. if you are talking about the fiscal health of the country, you have to do something in the outyears, years ahead, to restrain the growth of entitlement spending. the presidents attitude, i think, is that, i dont want anybody to pay attention to my budget after a serious document. i want the...

They helped direct mubarak. but suddenly and in a way that if things turned out differently, they would have been okay. republicans are looking at the outcome and also recognize at a time like this its good to support the president. >> well get back to this, but the president of course sends his 2012 budget to congress today, about two-thirds of the savings expected to be from a five-year spending freeze. other proposed cuts include pell grants, defense spending, energy assistance for the poor, ...

Administration and the democrats in the congress did what was right. to set us on a path to providing comprehensive health care for all of our citizens and we cannot go back. weve come too far. >> i wanted to also ask you about education nation. our msnbc focus on education. you appeared with secretary of education arne duncan yesterday and spike lee and other very prominent leaders talking about the need for african-american men to go into teaching. and when you look at the statistics, its pret...