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>> let's talk about senator cruz versus governor scott walker what do you think? >> i think you have a first term rookie senator. that's going to be a challenge for rand paul marco rubio and ted cruz because they will be fighting the shadow of president obama who came into power from that being a first term rookie. for senator cruz it's easier he has no skin in the gaimme in the sense that both senator paul and rubio or up for election in 2016. senator cruz is not. i'm beginning to think mitch mcconnell will have to show up in iowa or new hampshire to get a quorum in the senate. scott walker i...

Have to pass a budget. there has only been one budget passed in the last six years. we need the last two years of this administration to teach the executive branch they need to negotiate with the legislature and outline priorities, which is what a budgeting process does. we also need to be talking about the long-term of dealing with the unfunded obligations in our entitlement programs because that's what's going to impoverish our kids. >> to do that, ultimately you need control, your party does of the white house. so over the next two years, essentially it's showing america, hey, look. the rep...

>> but deadlines should not be dealt with. if both parties or, in this case multiple partners have done their best to achieve the objectives and progress is very real then there should be willingness to reexamine a deadline. >> did you tell president obama that? >> president obama knows. we don't need to tell each other. >> there has been no official response from the white house just yet. u.s. combat mission formerly ended in afghanistan last week after more than 13 years, 11,000 americans are now there training afghan forces. but they're supposed to come back by the end of 2016. senator mi...

This job? if i'm not going to get support from the highest level or from my police officers or from my sheriff who feels pressure from above, i don't know if it's worth the risk. >> think about it, with sheriff clark, he said it's theatric, that's why they're doing it now. i asked if it was a race thing or is it a crime thing, because michael brown roughed up the cop and assault and other things as well. he said it's not that simple. he said, you got to look at the bigger problem. the problems are in the black community, unemployment. you got to look at education. you got to look at opportunit...

And if you repealed it like the republicans want, you'd have absolute chaos because a lot of the ben fills have been conferred. i also think once the republicans get past the primary season early next year and into the early spring, they're not worried so much about challenges from the tea party right, that maybe might have an opening going into 2014 where maybe republicans might think they can run on something other than just demands to undermine obama care. soy think immigration reform is not dead yet. >> i want to shift gears to 2016. senator kirsten jill brand was asked about her recent ap...