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Increases on one side and spending cuts on the other. the thing that republicans consistently refuse to remember is we've raised about $700 billion in taxes. we already have an imbalance there. we've legislated $2.30 of every spending cut for every dollar of tax increases. the president is absolutely right, that's got to be the way forward. he's said i'm going to do some things that many of you may disagree with. >> it's not as if democrats right-hand turn being asked to do anything, either, to koch miez. i mean, there are members of my party who violently disagree

Get very specific about, but said, i'm willing to get into discussions about that. how is the president supposed to be able to get into discussions with the other side of the aisle, when people like this congressman and o'reilly have no idea, absolutely no idea what he has already proposed by way of real cuts? >> i'll speak to that in a second. but i just want to be clear that it's not just proposed, it's actually enacted. >> yes. >> remember, you have to be pretty checked out not to know this. remember, during the campaign, mitt romney and paul ryan attacked president obama, relentlessly, for...

Second. but i just want to be clear that it's not just proposed, it's actually enacted. >> yes. >> remember, you have to be pretty checked out not to know this. remember, during the campaign, mitt romney and paul ryan attacked president obama, relentlessly, for cutting $700 billion from the growth of the medicare in the affordable care act. by the way, it was kind of interesting, because they used to say, he refuses to tackle entitlements, and then they'd accuse him of cutting medicare. so there's all kinds of crazy out there. and interestingly, combs was right when he said saomething - you ju...

Suppose they lose 2.30 of that budget for some unforeseen expense? suddenly they're gog lose their house, their car, their food? it doesn't make sense because it's not true. this is a president's choice because he doesn't want to cut the budget. he wants to raise government spending. >> alisyn: what is the solution that you're suggesting? the president in the next three days get in and make more surgical cuts or that the two sides get together and make sure it doesn't happen? >> either would be better than this, but this is better than nothing. this begins to reverse the trend. the president a...

Reading into the early stages of this freshman? >> we suspected this strongly when ted cruise won a republican senate primary in texas in 2012, and he is a man in a hurry and someone who is not going to go along to get along. if we thought jim demint didn't play by the rules of the senate, well, ted cruise is jim demint 2.30 or 3 had the 0. we saw in the hearing with secretary clinton, we saw in the confirmation hearings with chuck hagel that cruise was by far the most prosecutorial, the most aggressive of the questioners of both of those folks, and he is someone who makes no bones about his -...