with the national debt but our unwillingness on the republican side to pay for it with revenue increases, tax increases, and on the democratic side the unwillingness to make some cuts in favor of the entitlement programs. we need to do both. president obama in recent months has been offering a compromise saying yes, we will cut some of our favorite programs. you've got to raise some of the revenues on folks you don't want to raise it on. republicans have simply been saying no and then complaining about the debt problem, but the debt problem is a matter of more expenditures revenues and you fix that not just by lowering expenditures but raising revenues and you have an inplacable quadrant of the u.s. congress saying no revenue raises no tax raises on anybody ever. that creates paralysis in government. >> one thing about the boston bombings in particular and the two suspects that was distasteful to many was of the families of the two suspects had actually had government