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Was it medicaid? was it the ryan budget that turned a lot of people against the republican and tea party candidate? what was it? >> well, what it was, is kathy hochul, gifted public ser venlt, incredible person with a passion to go to congress to represent working families. the ryan budget played right into her hands in that they tried to pass a budget in the middle of this campaign that took health care away from senior citizens. kathy hochul jumped on that immediately, attacked it. her opponen...

Ultimately, that this is formula how you deal with this. anybody who really believes it will be a substantive solution to the budget problem before the election is not thinking about what happens in washington. this is all politics and nobody wants to touch the really tough stuff, joe, you know, youve been there. it wont get touched until they see how the congress lays out. one of the scenarios is a democratic house and republican senate in the next congress and maybe republican or democratic pr...

For having me. but, you know, we seem to forget that when we did the america -- the affordable care act, we did a $500 million fix on medicare. and we extended the life of medicare by eight years. and we got criticized for it in the elections last year. you may recall. the republicans used that $500 million cut against us saying that we were cutting medicare and we lost seniors by 21 votes. 21 points. so i would say we have demonstrated that we do consider medicare to be important and something ...

Want taxes raised on the wealthy and loopholes closed on the oil companies and other people who have been feeding off the trough. i think the president is right. but i think he does have to sit down with the republican leadership and put together some substantial cuts in our entitlement program. not the ryan proposal, the ryan proposal, nobody is in favor of. in fact, i think there are republican congressmen who voted for it, andrea, who are having terrible buyers remorse as the polls roll out, ...

Unfortunately the same debate we had with herbert hoover, that we see a budget that will be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor middle class to the rich. >> youre talking about the ryan proposal. >> yeah. it is going to cost us between 1.7 and 2.2 million jobs. >> it is a given you guys would be against the ryan proposal. what is not so self-evident is that you would have a problem with what the president doing. yeah, but the news out of the meeting wasnt the problem we had with the pre...

Middle class lives. and the president has put his money on both. theres significant deficit reduction. $4.4 trillion over 12 years. but at the same time the president has said that we are not going to do certain things that some on the radical right would like be done. let me name three major differences between the presidents proposal and, say, the ryan proposal. first, we dont believe in ending medicare. or making medicare so fragile that a senior citizen cant exist on it. second, we believe t...

Schumer, chairman of the senatorial campaign committee. senator, thank you very much for joining me. the reaction has been pretty intense today to the presidents speech. what was your view? >> oh, i thought he hit it out of the park. the president laid out a vision for america that just about every american can accept. we know we have to cut the deficit. the deficit is a real problem. but at the same time, we know we have to grow the economy and increase jobs and increase middle-class lives. and...

It. second, we believe that there are certain programs that have to grow. for instance, we have to continue helping kids go to college. we have to make our schools better. we have to build modern infrastructure. and we have to continue scientific research. and, third, the president believed in shared sacrifice. the republican proposal actually lowers taxes on the multimillionaires, who really dont need these government programs. they can afford college pretty easily for themselves. we say no, th...

For instance, we have to continue helping kids go to college. we have to make our schools better. we have to build modern infrastructure. and we have to continue scientific research. and, third, the president believed in shared sacrifice. the republican proposal actually lowers taxes on multimillionaires who really dont need these government programs. they can afford college pretty easily for themselves. we say no, there should be shared sacrifice. everyones going to have to give a little. you d...

Lot of money. they want the states to take over that. theres a provision to lower the top tax rates to 25% and end a lot of deddeductions. there are a lot of provisions in it. one thing about the ryan proposal is really massive and sweeping, thats the notion of what this really does is stake out the ground where the debate begins. because as you know, any negotiation, that matters. >> the idea that its going to stake out the ground? david, it does -- >> im sorry, i didnt understand that was dire...