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America. in the senate, we have a bipartisan goal of a 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 sequester that are for the defense department? you have said in recent interviews...

Strike a deal. >> we have to look at how we get growth with jobs. thats where the revenue comes from. you dont get it by cutting education, cutting back on investments in science and national institutes of health, food safety, you name it. so it isnt as much a spending problem as much as it is priorities. thats what a budget is, setting priorities. >> one law maker who does think we have a spending problem is republican senator and tea party favorite rand paul. he made a bold statement in an int...

The big three, the fiscal follies, the state of the union, and todays must read. lets bring in the panel. former bush-cheney senior adviser. jimmy williams is an msnbc contributor. and erin is a staff writer for salon.com. i welcome all three of you. thanks for being here. >> happy sunday. >> robert, ill begin with you. lets take a listen to majority leader eric cantor on nbcs "meet the press." here it is. >> every time you turn around, the answer it to raise taxes. he just got his tax hike on t...

Today, we have a divide government. we have a house that is controlled by republicans. the senate is controlled by democrats and the white house thats controlled by democratic president. while the american people may have elected the status quo in governing, dont expect it in governance. if the president pontificates and lectures instead of working our problems out together, were not going to get anywhere in a new congress. and one thing democrats must remember is there is no mandate for this pr...

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. ...

Take care of their own agendas . how do you get past that right now. & not every democrats support it an agreement and in my view tax were deciped and now why have turn to spend everybody acknowledges we have a spending problem and so to prevent the dire consequences that come with sequestitration and economic and national security wise and domestic programs are cut, too. we have to cut spend nothing a smart way and no reason we cant do that. >> well give you the last word. do we have a spending...

Remember, you start with a little tumor cell, then it grows into a bigger one, then a bigger one. if you get it when its a couple cells, youre not going to have the physical cancer. >> rick: weve spending problem in this country. but do need to spend more federal dollars on this kinds of research in order to find these kind of cures that are so important that touch so many peoples lives? >> you know the answer because by the time you get to the chemotherapy stage, youre talking thousands and tho...

Youre talking about the spending problem. i want to bring up another poll about the spending problem. check this out. recently took, president obama says the government doesnt have a spending problem and we ask the american people that we sample what do they think? 83% says yes, it does have a spending problem and 14% say, it doesnt. well, those 14% might be extremely well off or maybe their head is in the sand and they dont see the need, the economic needs of the american people. christy, what ...

Sequester the defense budget will dwarf their adversaries. >> if sequestration happens we go from spending 40 cents out of a dollar to 38 cents out of every dollar, you decline but not by the massive amount. >> u.s. taxpayers spent $711 billion on defense in 2011, equal to the next 13 largest defense budgets combined. the second largest defense budget in the world was china, six times smaller than the u.s. but growing fast. coming up, the president says the government doesnt have a spending pr...

Maybe hes on the west coast still. at this point he really could be anywhere. >> hes committed to becoming invisible. tphoeupbt vincible. invisible. jenna: and so far right now. >> hes been successful. jenna: pat nice to have you, jon. rick: you might know this guy from the hit movie baby, turns out that actor james cromwell is in hot whats for protesting at a major university. well tell you what is going on there next. president obama says he doesnt believe the government has a spending problem...