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Thats exactly what he said before he was elected president. let me ask you this question. was yesterday a speech or a plan? >> the president put out a very comprehensive plan. it was $4 trillion of debt reduction over 12 years. he put forward all the areas and categories of spending over a trillion dollars in domestic and security spending. $500 million in health, medicare, medicaid savings. he put forward an automatic back stop that would make sure that under any circumstance, no matter what co...

Deal that nobody loves and some people hate, and a last minute breakthrough of the compromise, and the details came out more than 72 hours after the house and the senate leaders and president obama announced they had a deal. so before we jump in, let me show you what was never on the table. thats most of the federal budget. here is our pi chart there. and 56%, give or take goes for mandatory spending such as social security, medicare and medicaid. another 7% is interest on the $14 trillion debt....

Wanted to and now the freshmen feel closer to boehner and canter than they did before. >> the point you make is the right one. the math is all wrong on this. to go after this tiny slice of whats called discretionary spending with -- >> 12%. >> which is education, its science, its technology, its energy. this is all wrong when the big things are military. $800 billion of security spending. were wasting $100 billion in afghanistan. nobody is going after that right now. were wasting hundreds of bil...

Am n am nimity. in taehran tens of thousands tok part in the demonstration. as we told you earlier, its a big day for the budget. he sends it up to capitol hill. lets take a look at some of the issues here. if you look here, green is revenue. gold is spending. orange is the deficits. here is where we start out here and its the first few years you want to worry the most about because politics and debate will containing. you see spending is up here. government revenues down there, which means the ...

Created this tremendous political dysfunction, this polarization so that the republicans have now made poisoned the environment on revenue raising, even if you have to pay your bills. the democrats have been dema georgie i demagoging the budget. heres an administration proposing 900 million in its upcoming budget for defense and security spending, its more than i was fighting against with the runaway defense budget during the reagan days when we had star wars and an enemy with 8,000 war heads po...

Entitlement programs like social security and medicare. without doing that critics charge that the deficit will balloon even higher, jenna. jenna: 2400 pages, that proposal, kelly, we have our reading cut out for us over the next several hours. >> reporter: this is just a little portion of it. there is a lot more to read. jenna: unbelievable. thank you very much. jon: probably called a billion dollars just to print the thing, jenna, dont you think? we hear a lot of caught about cutting the budge...

Important political development, two new york lawmakers are furious with the obama administration tonight. the department of homeland security has just announced its going to cut millions of dollars of security spending in new yorks mass transit authority. the president will be in new york city tomorrow on tough politics. so lets talk about some stories on my radar tonight, and joining me to help us through it all, veteran republican strategist, lets just start there, theyre trying to save money...

Governor proposes we do and in any form, back to the line, you will destroy any chance well have of having illegal immigration -- a legal immigration system that works here in america. >> chris: lets turn to taxes and spending, you support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. you also stay you would agrees federal discretionary spending except for security spending on homeland security and the pentagon. that is the same increase the president supports which covers 13% of the federal...

Governor proposes we do and in any form, back to the line, you will destroy any chance well have of having illegal immigration -- a legal immigration system that works here in america. >> chris: lets turn to taxes and spending, you support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. you also stay you would agrees federal discretionary spending except for security spending on homeland security and the pentagon. that is the same increase the president supports which covers 13% of the federal...

We do at any form back of the line or so forth you will destroy any chance we will have much having a legal immigration system work. >> you say you support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. you say you would freeze security spending except security spending on the pentagon. thats the same spending freeze obama supports which covers 13 percent of the federal budgbudg. >> the freeze is not enough. theres a good one advanced by senator lemieux in florida and others. we can freeze th...