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Party that they dont even think there is a spending problem. so, and the president has made pretty clear that cutting the deficit isnt his top priority. so, you know, i mean i actually dont share that point of view and i think there are democrats who dont share that point of view, but the fact of the matter is the people who are leaders of the democratic party today have been pretty clear theyre in the sort of paul krugman camp of this is not a problem. its a problem thats going to be a problem ...

Have lunch with the senators, republican senators, right? >> right, thats right, yeah. >> youve got a question for him? what are you going to ask him. >> id of love to hear the presidents answer why he doesnt believe we have a debt crisis or why he doesnt believe we have a spending problem? you continue to hear leading democrats in the congress and president talking about no debt crisis, no spending problem. dont need to balance the budgets in ten years. were facing a train wreck if we dont get ...

Have lunch with the senators, republican senators, right? >> right, thats right, yeah. >> youve got a question for him? what are you going to ask him. >> id of love to hear the presidents answer why he doesnt believe we have a debt crisis or why he doesnt believe we have a spending problem? you continue to hear leading democrats in the congress and president talking about no debt crisis, no spending problem. dont need to balance the budgets in ten years. were facing a train wreck if we dont get ...

Meeting with all the republicans in the house of representatives in the capital. before the meeting, the president was realistic about the chances of a grand bargain with republicans. >> ultimately, it may be the differences are just too wide. if their position is we cant do any revenue or we can only do revenue if we gut medicare or gut social security or gut medicaid. if thats the position, we are probably not going to get a deal. >> after the meeting with the president, john boehner and eric ...

In fact for the next ten years it will be in a sustainable place. >> with another day of meetings with both democrats and republicans on capitol hill that sentiment may create deeper division with deficit hawk that says democrats plan to raise taxes almost a trillion dollars over the next decade are simply a deal breaker. >> i love to hear the presidents answer as to why he doesnt believe we have a debt crisis or why he doesnt believe we have a spending problem. >> there is the matter of the whi...

>> president obama continued meeting with all the republicans in the house of representatives in the capital. before the meeting, the president was realistic about the chances of a grand bargain with republicans. >> ultimately, it may be the differences are just too wide. if their position is we cant do any revenue or we can only do revenue if we gut medicare or gut social security or gut medicaid. if thats the position, we are probably not going to get a deal. >> after the meeting with the pres...

American people but lets move forward on things we do agree on. >> we heard two different perspectives after the meeting. one faction, one time of reaction was from house republicans closely aligned with the tea party. folks who said they thought the president sounded a good game, talented communicator as one called him, but was his willingness to act boldly going to match the speaking ability? these tea party republicans came away believing the president doesnt think theres a debt or spending p...

Would you be my cia director. >> yeah, well he goes-- >> what would you do. >> i wouldnt do it because i couldnt work for a president i dont agree with. the reality is the ryan budget takes us to balance. you can agree with parts, disagree with parts of it, but what you should do is propose another budget that takes us to balance. meanwhile, we have the democratic plans that want to keep unbalanced budget forever. its a disaster for our children. >> sean: and a trillion in new taxes under the se...

Many arrows as you said before from the democrats as he will republicans. there are democrats who are staunchly opposed to spinning discipline around entitlement. >> can i say its actually nice? because this president really hasnt crossed his base a lot the past four years. its nice for me to be able to say to republicans, who say i think legitimately say he never crosses his base. he always attacks us and does what is safe for him and his political base but not the case any more. he was getting...

This is like a john gault, fanciful, like a wizard budget. the numbers dont add up. he has to assume these savings or it doesnt work. >> listen to what he said when chris wallace asked him where the compromise point might be. >> the president would like to raise $600 billion at least in added revenue by clearing out so many of the deductions and loopholes for upper income people. you want not nips and cuts but structural reform to entitlements. did you get a sense, first of all, are you willing ...