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Billion in food stamps when george bush left office. hundred billion dollars. >> dana: lets say that everybody needs, "x" amount fraud. 15% however that figures in to. as a country were not talking about how to help people get off the system and on to a more sustainable lifestyle to be able to take care of themselves. when you opened you talked about an article when president obama is quoted by boehner as saying he said to him we dont have a spending problem. the white house is not backtracked o...

The states. you women wouldnt have the right to vote. >> dana: you women? beckel. >> is joe biden task force sounds an argument for guns. >> kimberly: president obama doesnt think america has a spending problem. a his supporters werent happy when he saw the tax increase hit them in the pocketbook. we break down the numbers when we come back. stay with us.

President! and then the president said to him, mr. speaker, im getting tired of you telling me that. but look, to say we dont have a spending problem would be like the greek president saying we dont have a debt problem. the first stage of recovery, steve f an addiction is to at least acknowledge that you got a problem. and maybe thats why these negotiations broke down, because the speaker told me not once during all of those five weeks was the president ever really very serious about cutting spe...

Ill neil cavuto and now we know, no big deal. the whole spending mess no mess period. to hear house speaker john boehner replayed the whole thing to the "wall street journal" steve moore. the president says the country does not have a spending problem. told boehner to his face at the white house that it is all fiction. spending isnt the problem. healthcare is. get that under control the president reportedly says pretty much everything else is under control. we will talk to steve moore in a is se...

National debate regarding our spending that is out of control. we are here in the 13th congress to rein in spending, to do something about this debt that is crippling our childrens future and to tackle the big issue, the hard issues like entitlement reform. >> you heard in the equal street journal article who is out with john boehner saying the president apparently told him unequivocally that spend something not a problem in this country. how do you combat it when the president appears not to be...

Often he said toward the end of the negotiations the president became irritated and said im getting tired of hearing you say that. really? youve tripled the deficit and youre tired of hearing we have a spending problem. >> here was john boehners reason as to why he believes the president decided not to move at all on cutting spending in these negotiations. number one, he says, hes so ideological himself. number two, hes unwilling to take on the left wing of his own party. i would add a number th...

Sounds an argument for guns. >> kimberly: president obama doesnt think america has a spending problem. a his supporters werent happy when he saw the tax increase hit them in the pocketbook. we break down the numbers when we come back. stay with us. ♪

Default on some bills. >> how is that tough talk going over with republicans? >> not very well. >> republicans who agreed for the presidents push for higher taxes during the fiscal cliff battle, now want to tackle spending and raising the debt limit as part of the spending problem. we want more bipartisan negotiations and less campaigning. >> and it looks like the second term of barack obama is going to be an in-your-face term. im not going to talk about the debt ceiling. we have yet to cut one ...

Shortly after that was actually passed, our friend steven moore from the "wall street journal" sat down with john boehner, speaker of the house, who was shortly -- after he sat down -- before reelected. john boehner revealed essentially the presidents mind-set. john boehner kept talking about, look, mr. president, weve got a spending problem in this country. and the president said we dont have a spending problem. weve got a problem with health care. health care is the big driver of all the big p...

Default on some bills. >> how is that tough talk going over with republicans? >> not very well. >> republicans who agreed for the presidents push for higher taxes during the fiscal cliff battle, now want to tackle spending and raising the debt limit as part of the spending problem. we want more bipartisan negotiations and less campaigning. >> and it looks like the second term of barack obama is going to be an in-your-face term. im not going to talk about the debt ceiling. we have yet to cut one ...