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Presidential nominee voted against what the speaker wanted, voted against the deal yesterday on the house floor. >> reporter: its so true. its really going to be a fascinating dynamic. good news is that they are meeting. people out there think, okay, congress isnt doing their work or things are really messed up and think this is a perfect example. funding the government is a basic thing that congress is supposed to do in the constitution. not only have they been having these crises, funding the ...

Welfare. i wonder whether we reach the point that makes more sense not to work and rely on government welfare. >> i dont think so. im an optimist. look at reagan years and the clinton years. americans love prosperity and theyre happier when they are working and they have the opportunities. i think what the times show us is that government is expert at wrecking an economy. through spending increases, overtaxing us, overregulating us through obamacare the make it impossible to hire. they know how ...

White houses political and economic strategy a little bit because they would like to nurse this recovery, keep it going. at the very moment when theyre both beginning to feel the effects of sequestration, some measured in the jobs report. and now talking about a larger budget deal that will have some spending increases, but mostly cuts. >> that goes to the legacy question, too. this is a president, of course, who wants to be able to leave behind an economy that is growing. an economy that is gro...

Say, maybe we ought not to close those air traffic control towers. were getting you ready for a whole round of, maybe on second thought, we ought not to do this. but i think this complicates the white houses political and economic strategy a little bit because they would like to nurse this recovery, keep it going. at the very moment when theyre both beginning to feel the effects of sequestration, some measured in the jobs report. not much. and now talking about a larger budget deal that will hav...

Plus tax increases and have net spending increases and when you have a trillion dollar deficit, we need to work on our spending and when the other side is offering even more spending increases and even more tax increases, more borrowing, were still kind of worlds apart. hey, our salads. [ bop ] [ bop ] [ bop ] you can do that all you want, i dont like v8 juice. [ male announcer ] how about v8 v-fusion. a full serving of vegetables, a full serving of fruit. but what you taste is the fruit. so eve...

Exhausted. the war has exhausted them. >> right. >> and neither side was getting clear-cut victory so they decided to call a truce and some of people like corker have always been reasonable but people like boehner have to worry about their caucus. >> mika, for democrats, there is never really a political -- i mean, anything but a political advantage in taking republicans on a budget fights because we usually always lose those fights for one reason or the other. some of us would say because the p...

They vote against it when the bad bills got the momentum to go through. we should be doing everything. using every tool in our tool box to try to stop bad legislation from happening. >> so what are are you doing, matt? what have you told the speaker? >> what ive said is as we go forward any time that they violate the pay/go rules which says we pay for -- pay as we go that if we dont have spending increases, bill doesnt go forward. im going to vote against the rule that violates that principle. t...

>> i think probably the best you could give the president credit for would be some proposals to curb the rate of growth of some programs swamped by cuts. i hear you and acknowledge that they have been swamped by the new spending increases. >> bill: sure. we are on track now, if you guys dont get it together, to be 20 trillion in debt by the time the president leaves office. as you know, ben bernanke is printing money unprecedented rate which devalues all the money we already have. >> right. >> b...

>> i think probably the best you could give the president credit for would be some proposals to curb the rate of growth of some programs swamped by cuts. i hear you and acknowledge that they have been swamped by the new spending increases. >> bill: sure. we are on track now, if you guys dont get it together, to be 20 trillion in debt by the time the president leaves office. as you know, ben bernanke is printing money unprecedented rate which devalues all the money we already have. >> right. >> b...

>> i think probably the best you could give the president credit for would be some proposals to curb the rate of growth of some programs swamped by cuts. i hear you and acknowledge that they have been swamped by the new spending increases. >> bill: sure. we are on track now, if you guys dont get it together, to be 20 trillion in debt by the time the president leaves office. as you know, ben bernanke is printing money unprecedented rate which devalues all the money we already have. >> right. >> b...