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Are a really bad idea. >> true. but they disagree on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform, the president asked for higher taxes and new spending programs. im announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, use our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work on our most urgent repairs. make high quality preschool to every child in america. redesign americas high schools so they better equip graduates. >> more spending because they c...

>> true but they disagree on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform. >> the president asks for higher taxes and new spending programs. >> i am announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing. oil and gas revenues to fund energy security. to put people as soon as possible on urgent repairs. make preschool available in every school in america. redesign american high schools so they better equip graduategr. >> more spending continues to destroy jobs. >> our cameras follow...

>> reporter: true. but they disagreed on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform. the president asks for higher taxes and new spending programs. >> im announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security front. put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. make high-quality free school available to every single child in america. redesign americas high schools so they better equip gradu...

Bad idea. >> true. but they disagree on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform. the president asks for higher taxes, and new spending programs. >> im announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. redesign americas high schools so they better equip graduat...

But they disagree on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform. the president asks for higher taxes, and new spending programs. >> im announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. make high quality free school available to every single child in america. redesign americas high schools so they better equip graduates. >> our taxes ...

Year? >> thats right. i mean, one of the problems with the sequester cuts, those forced budget cuts was you know, they were never supposed to happen. they were supposed to be so draconian, so onerous and horrific theres no way they would ever take effect. thats how they were designed. of course, they did take effect. now there are spending cuts but theres a lot more flexibility. theyre not as deep. and there are ways for people in decision making it positions to decide what gets cut and what doe...

Actually waiting to deal. they set up the previous year, attempting to execute the plan to extort unilateral concessions. thats what boehner wanted to do with the debt ceiling and ted cruz with the government shutdown. that failed. a disarray. theyre on the backup plan. the backup plan is a small deal. i think theyre going to try to lift sequestration cuts. automatic cuts to the, to the nonmandatory spending programs. for a year, maybe two, probably one year. and just fry to cobble together a sm...

We agree default is disruptive and should not be on the table. the debt problems are much more long term. these are structural problems with our entitlements and other spending programs thats driving our debt and deficit. those will take some time to hammer out which is why in 2011 you saw the two side try to do a grand bargain. the president won, he got his way on the fiscal cliff and sequestration. john boehner has said if we are going to solve this problem lets get both people at the table ta...

Touched or addressed is in fact, the majority of the budget that is in the large so-called mandatory spending programs. the medicare, medicaid, farm subsidies. that has to be the focus of a budget negotiation. and i think conservatives on the whole would be quite pleased to trade a dollar of sequester cuts for a dollar of reforms. that deal has never actually been put on the table, and if it would just -- >> there have been deals put on the table at basically three or four different junctures, i...

Numbers turned bad again because the one thing that has not been touched or addressed is in fact, the majority of the budget that is in the large so-called mandatory spending programs. the medicare, medicaid, farm subsidies. that has to be the focus of a budget negotiation. and i think conservatives on the whole would be quite pleased to trade a dollar of sequester cuts for a dollar of reforms. that deal has never actually been put on the table, and if it would just -- >> there have been deals p...