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Again? my2k. do what it takes to communicate a sense of urgency. we dont have a lot of time here. >> in order to come to an agreement, republicans are willing to put revenue on the table. time for the president and the democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has. >> bret: some of the back and forth today the president calling on people to get involved including on twitter. this as he met this morning with unions and other liberal organizations to discuss the fiscal c...

Them. just tax the rich more. its a campaign all over again. and at this moment, the democrats and the president have not given one inch, to my knowledge, on any entitlement reform or entitlement cuts. >> brian: hes going to go to tinker toys, to some odd manufacturing plants. the only thing i could picture him saying is its time to lift the bush tax rates from the rich and make them pay more. what else could he possibly be talking about? >> hes sticking it to house republicans. i won the electi...

That is the entire thing that they do to raise money. they shave celebrity heads. they would shave yours. we have clippers in the car. >> to the business at hand. this pledge, this grover norquist pledge, how important is it to the republican party? >> i think its very important. >> do you think its important for people who signed the pledge to keep it? >> i think its important to remember the problem we have which is a spending problem and, frankly, i think we look at it in terms of any family....

They need to go. entitlement reforms are going to have to be a part. thats where the spending problem is. >> more on this in a minute. how many times since 1945 have both branches of congress and the white house been controlled by the same party? it hasnt happened often. its ten times but its varied, no lasted longer than i think four years at the most before a party was thrown out for at least one of them. a political trivia, e-mail us. well be write back. people love our potpourri parties. its...

Debt and i was telling myself. i didnt have a problem. once i was honest with myself, and i accepted that, hey, i had a spending problem, once i did that, then i was on-- i took the first step on towards getting out of the credit card debt. >> what did you do next? >> you know, the first thing you have to do is assess your situation. what, you know what youre making, but how much are you spending? and once you can identify your wasteful spending you can cut ou you want to get out of credit card ...

Plenty of revenue coming in, what we have is a spending problem. one month alone last month, jon, the month of october, this government had 120 billion-dollar deficit in just one month. the spending has got to stop. never mind revenues. the american people are taxed enough, this is about cutting spending. >> here is the problem for the republicans and i actually feel for john boehner in this. hes got a caucus, eric cantor and paul ryan undermining anything hes going to do in terms of negotiation...

As a willingness of the public to say, we want to raise taxes on the wealthy and again, what is the exact magic number? we dont know. none of have a crystal ball --. martha: but here is the issue. wouldnt people rather, wouldnt people rather see wealthy people pay more something that changes the system going forward in terms of efficient of real tax reform than by slapping a bandaid on the top by rich people paying more and spending problem that bubbles and boils out of control and leaves us wit...

What we should say is we should say, mr. president this is not a dictatorship. you know what happened in the 2012 elections? the people elected republicans in control of the house of representatives. we dont have a revenue problem. we have a spending problem. >>neil: but they are not doing that. >>guest: i dont hear speaker cantor saying bring on the tax hikes. im sorry, majority leader cantor, majority leader cantor. i dont think -- we should wait-and-see but i also think the republicans should...

Taxings. good morning to you. >> good morning . >> gretchen: what does it do with the pledge many republicans sign with you. >> no one signed with me . it is to the american people. americans for tax reform with all candidates and republicans and democrats. but the pledge is to the american people. we twice now had an argument with obama about his interest to raise taxes to cover his over spending. raising taxes doesnt solve the over spending problem, it is a distraction . we ought to be looking...