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And so on, the things that are her favorite causes. she says some things can be cut, but not those things. >> first of all, the education is not the purview of the federal government, only amounts to 10% of spending in this country and set her aside on that issue and frankly, no child left behind and every program moved by the department of education is an argument for the elimination of the department of education. >> megyn: she says theres no spending problem and president obama reportedly tol...

Self-destructi self-destructive. >> and theyve cut spending to the tune of 1.6 trillion dollars and the republicans say thats funny math or fuzzy math. there havent been real cuts theyve only reduced the growth of spending, but they dont actually cut the existing spending and its kind of like when i go to the store if i pay like $500. you know, for my shopping trip and my husband says, $500, and i say, but it was 50% off its not 500, i saved 500, he doesnt buy that math and thats what barack oba...

The union" addresses. hell talk about growing government, bigger government, and more spending. he will not change his tune. he doesnt believe we have a spending problem. he sees no urgency in terms of reigning in the debt, nor does nancy pelosi who says she doesnt think we have a spending problem, either. so when you have the top democrats in at the country believing that, stating it publicly, youre not going to get anything. >> i think that he is going to -- he will do -- he is going to dress ...

Sales taxes. he said what carson said the. >> right. lets listen to another piece of sound from dr. carson and this is about taxes. >> you make $10 billion, you put in $1 billion. you make $10, you put in $1. >> some people say, well thats not fair because it doesnt hurt the guy who made $10 billion as much as the guy made -- 10. where does it say have you to hurt the guy? he put $1 billion in the pot. >> hes a free market guy. >> how do we solve the problem? clearly we have a spending problem. ...

Is a spending problem. you can call it strategic investment so not to cause alarm but thats a spending problem. when youre adding more than $3 million to that each and every day, doing nothing, thats a spending problem. the roughly two weeks i have been out -- and admit it, you missed me -- that is more than 55 billion bucks deeper in the hole. the former speaker dismisses that, and president obama says as much, and tomorrow he is expected to say much more. and proving the government and at the ...

Was his connection to the prayer breakfast, he said, why do we punish them any more? it seems like its fair. the guy just put in a billion dollars. >> look, im a big believer in upward mobility in this country. i think thats part of what made our country the great nation we have and we should reward success. not penalize it. i think whats also happening is this vilification of success, again, through the political process of this last election cycle, there was a lot of that going on. i think wha...

Dangerous cob sequence -- weve seen the consequence of washington not coming up with policy formulations in a pro-active way. were still discussing social security solvency, which is pathetic. still trike to figure out how to pay for the health care spitelements and theyre a collective arrogance on the part of congresswoman pelosi when 50% of northwestern people are saying, please, do something about this. >> she is not alone. there are knock of prominent democrats, we dont have a spending probl...

And figure out what needs to happen so we do the right thing in the right way rather than the right thing in the wrong way. everybody knows we have to reduce spending. and we have to decide what spending we are going to reduce. at this point the spenting will be across the board in defense and non-defense discretionary. if thats the only choice, its better than not getting the spenting under control. bill: nancy pelosi says its a false argument to say we have expanding problem. >> the president ...

And weve spent 5, 5 trillion dollars. i know its impossible to conceptualize, but understand, folks, weve got a 16 plus trillion dollar national debt now. this president has no answer to anything. >> megyn: they say look, we got involved in two wars under president bush that we had to fund and pay for. under president obama they say he inherited a bad economy which he did and stop gap measures to help the unemployed and folks who are on welfare suddenly and so on and accounts for some of that mo...

Well that these family structures are critically important to the future of america. in the senate, we have a bipartisan goal of pathway to citizenship. not stopping at the dream act, beginning with the dream act and pushing forward. >> i want to get back to the automatic spending cuts and ask a fundamental question that i think republican critics of this president are asking. do you not concede that there is a spending problem in washington? even when it comes to the 50% cuts out of the sequest...