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>> the battle over this years budget does continue. one powerful republican is taking a longer look and talking about making gigantic cuts in federal spending in years to come. wisconsin congressman paul ryan the chairman of the house budget committee will unveil a plan tuesday for cutting more than $4 trillion in federal spending the next ten years and he is grabbing on to the perilous third rail of american politics entitlement programs including medicare and medicaid and possibly even social ...

Dont target ve veterans and childrens programs. >> neil: you make it sound like they are hurting veterans and elderly. >> they are. >> neil: you dont offer anything and they refuse to put themselves on the third rail because they say they dont want to beexposed and nothing gets done. you say none of these guys created the deficit. you are quite the right. you did. you did. >> time-out. i didnt vote for the bush tax cuts. i did not vote to send troops to iraq unpaid for. i may have voted for thin...

The foreign aid serves our national interest and foreign aid is not why we are in debt. it is if three major entitlement programs we need to reform to save them and i do want to save them. >>neil: you are right about that. and when you brought that out i remember in the campaign when your opponent pillared you on that issue and you wanted just to address social security and of course it was a if you were taking food out of the plates of the elderly. but you know that third rail and what it is li...

With double exports in the country by 2014 and losing brazil as a marketing and corporate executives with him. is this a trip that the president had to take. >> absolutely not. he reminds me of the student prince and he goes around the world showing off the nobel prize medal. he needs to come home and focus on it. in order to create jobs in america, have a less anti-business government, have less of it and he simply doesnt want to face it, so he globe trots around and pretending to create employ...

Lets take something boring, the president is holding back with the theory is, i guess, let the republicans take it on the chin for the unpopular budget cuts, ill join them at the right time, they have the first move. >> i think youre right. >> is that a bad strategy? >> its a terrible strategy. its a great political strategy, but one beref of leadership. the people are recognizing we have serious problems, we cant afford a lot of the parameters. no one wants to touch the third rail. the presiden...

>> thank you, you both have something to offer here. ron, ill give you the first dib. i think this might be your best night ever. lets take something boring, the president is holding back with the theory is, i guess, let the republicans take it on the chin for the unpopular budget cuts, ill join them at the right time, they have the first move. >> i think youre right. >> is that a bad strategy? >> its a terrible strategy. its a great political strategy, but one beref of leadership. the people ar...

Experts we talked to that will be tough sell when you are talking about having a jury of taxpayers. >> shep: trace, thanks. surveillance cameras at a boston subway stop, catch a group of people saving a man that appeared to be drunk. you can see the guy, he falls off the platform, right down. see the lights on the train coming up in the distance. train stops and number of witnesses pulled him to safety. the man did not touch the third rail. that the rail that has the power in it. it could have...

Reelection in 2012. ron christie is a republican strategist. >> thank you, you both have something to offer here. ron, ill give you the first dib. i think this might be your best night ever. lets take something boring, the president is holding back with the theory is, i guess, let the republicans take it on the chin for the unpopular budget cuts, ill join them at the right time, they have the first move. >> i think youre right. >> is that a bad strategy? >> its a terrible strategy. its a great p...

To tackle entitlements? know they call it the third rail of politics and theres a reason for it, right? >> thats right. it seems to be an understanding that it needs to be tackled. you have house republicans, they say they are going to do it when they deal with their budget very soon. we dont know how they are going to do it though. are they going to increase the retirement age? are they going to make that proposal. we just dont know yet. theres a group of six senators, three democrats, three re...

>> it happens by democrats cutting the entitlements and some republicans say well look at new revenue. this is a great article in the "times" going after things that are popular to their base. its the oldest trick in the book to say well cut something thats popular to the other guy. i think thats the difference and thats the politics they are talking about. >> what could the president do if he wanted to lead on this? >> hell have to go after some of the things that are popular to democrats to up...