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Thats what people need to see to know this is a stable, strong investment climate to create jobs and invest in the future. >> steve: gene, you just mentioned the speaker of the house, john boehner. john boehner says that in dealing with the president, the president says john, we dont have the spending problem. we have a problem with the high cost of health care. you were just talk being how weve got to bring the cost of health care and other things down. youve had five years. why hasnt this admi...

Economy. >> reporter: thats right. almost a tradition now, the speaker has a little breakfast with reporters before the state of the union. he did that today, bret baier was there, and the speaker really ripped into the president saying, among other things, quote: i dont think he has the guts to do it. he doesnt have the courage to take on the liberal side of his own party, never has. and what the speaker was suggesting was that he thinks well see a more partisan president tonight, not someone w...

Does government have a spending problem? 83% say yes. 14% say no. nancy pelosi says we dont. what does the white house think? >> no, we believe you absolutely have to bring down spending. you have to do it in a balanced way. so three points. one, we actually have cut 2 1/2 trillion dollars over the last two years. it hasnt always been pretty, but weve actually done it in a bipartisan way. about two to three of spending cuts for every dollar in revenue. but we do have further to go. we need to ge...

When asked about pelosis absurd denial. jay carney had no he choice, but to completely contradict her. watch this. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi one of the sunday broadcasts, referring to the sequester on the future of the united states and talking about education and scientific research its almost a false wrong that we have a spending problem. does the president think we have a spending problem. >> i think this is a little bit of deja vu here, of course the president believes we have a ...

What could be then purchased with them if certain legislative action goes forward. lets say the buffett rule, the one we heard him about in the campaign, assume that went forward. you get about $16.7 billion in revenue over a decade. the president should use stats like that to take it and talk about what he could get from that. infrastructure spending, grants and we know about one fourth of the bridges in the united states structurally inefficient. a lot of them unsafe to drive on. the president...

For some closing tax loopholes and for the president to be taken seriously by the country there should be acknowledgment of a spending problem going on throughout the united states coming to the long-term future entitlement programs. lastly, president obama well served to make the point on numbers. 11 million undocumented folks in the country. what would it take to get them in line and have a negative birthrate like that in europe without this workforce here in the united states and many big bus...

To avoid that right now. i think hell get blamed for that ultimately. they say the republicans will. if the defense department is in real trouble, the president gets blamed. >> by the way, six months from now when the job numbers are still sputtering along, not like theyre going to look at john boehner and say, this is john boehners fault because 80% of americans dont know who john boehner is. >> he has one great asset, joe, the republicans. >> one asset the republicans have. >> there is that. >...

Think hes got the guts to do it. that fell in the room. and we pressed the speaker about that. did he really mean that? and he reiterated, saying he doesnt think he has the courage to take on his own party. further explaining, he said that he knows the president gets that theres a spending problem, but he doesnt believe that hes been willing to take it on, in part wanting to fight republicans for the potential that perhaps it would be a speaker nancy pelosi at the midterm, a majority leader harr...

>> bret: so, ed, what are we hearing if the president will tack the deficit in the speech? >> interesting, because today jay carney said he does believe there is a spending problem in washington. he seems to disagree with nancy pelosi a little bit. carney went on to say he believes the problem is with spending on healthcare. so something the president tried to tack with the affordable care act and carney went on to say the president doesnt believe the government is too big now. when you compare ...

>> well, neil, welcome back. can give you 15-1/2 trillion reasons why we do have a spending problem. but beyond a spending problem we have a pelosi problem. what i mean by that is we have a collective ignorance on the part of legislative leaders and the presidents a economic advisedders who do not have any kind of business experience, even recognize this is a threat, huge threat, and if you look -- what do people do when theyre confronted with the threat? in the private sector, they diagnosis th...