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Defense secretary briefed from the white house. just doesnt happen. ive seen presidents, obama and bush, go and brief at the pentagon, but ive never seen it the other way around. it speaks to the degree to which -- and my colleagues will probably be smart er on this thn me, but the degree to which they want to make this budget deal about military spending and it make it that much harder for people to vote against it, jim mattis going to the white house briefing room with a full-throated endorsem...

It. but no more from my perspective. >> neil: so republicans are not saying another sequestration deal, or backup deal on spending, this would not be it. >> go into the into it. s. we have not talk about them at all. this is the place to look, entitlements. not the military. we have young men and women whose lives are put in jeopardy because of politics in washington, dc. thats unacceptable. >> neil: when you talk about entitlements, you would be open to raising the retirement age? >> neil: and ...

Politics. this is going to gut our defenses. you dont have to save $45 billion this year. that is 4% of the deficit. we will endanger the national defenses and short change the service men and women overseas for the sake of cutting 4% from the deficit? it is totally irresponsible. >> bill is right that you captain have massive tax reform in just 60 days. it took ronald reagan and tip oneill and bill bradley a bipartisan bill in 1986, 20 montes to do it. there is things like nascar track owners a...

Politics. this is going to gut our defenses. you dont have to save $45 billion this year. that is 4% of the deficit. we will endanger the national defenses and short change the service men and women overseas for the sake of cutting 4% from the deficit? it is totally irresponsible. >> bill is right that you captain have massive tax reform in just 60 days. it took ronald reagan and tip oneill and bill bradley a bipartisan bill in 1986, 20 montes to do it. there is things like nascar track owners a...

News made in that interview and it had to do with an open disagreement that romney has with the republican leaders who struck a deal to extend the debt ceiling, you remember last summer, that required automatic spending cuts for defense and social programs that would take effect january 1st. this is what he said. >> this sequestration idea of the white house, which is cutting our defense, i think, is an extraordinary miscalculation. >> republican leaders agreed to that deal to extend -- >> i thi...

We had the opportunity to sit with governor romney. here was i think a key piece of news made in that interview and it had to do with an open disagreement that romney has with the republican leaders who struck a deal to extend the debt ceiling, you remember last summer, that required automatic spending cuts for defense and social programs that would take effect january 1st. this is what he said. >> this sequestration idea of the white house, which is cutting our defense, i think, is an extraordi...

I think it was a mistake for republicans to go along with it. >> and here is from the national review last july, romneys running mate, paul ryan, defending his vote yes for that sequestration deal. he said i support this reasonable, responsible effort to cut government spending, avoid a default and help create a better environment for job creation. chuck, what does this say that there is this open disagreement? >> well, this is about, i think romneys playing battleground state politics. i hate t...

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Argument is all wet. craig? >> you know what? i think im going to agree with the democrats. federal spending is drying up. it was down and look what happened. well, thankfully, federal spending is stopping, because look at everything that theyve been doing, eric? up in of it has been working, and when you start to think this whole thing through, theyre going to blame it on bush or the republicans and theyre going to say, this was all part of theses quickster done the sequestration deal, and ever...