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It's expected to call for reducing the deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade but also projects a $1.3 trillion deficit for this year. the president plans to cut medicare and medicaid by $360 billion and eliminate the bush tax cuts for the wealthy as well. he's proposing $475 billion for infrastructure projects and another 350 billion to create jobs and stimulate the economy. i know we just threw a lot of numbers at you. the president is still facing criticism, however, over the mandate to pay for birth control. the controversy poured into the pews this sunday after he proposed a compromi...

>> some of the other critics though, maya i was just interviewing, whom you know well, says that it does not seriously really attack the long-term problems. that you do not have to do it this year, but you need a ten-year plan, you have approaches to health care cuts but not the big numbers. and social security left untouched. i know it's an election year, but couldn't you create a long-term plan? >> the affordable care act according to the congressional budget office saves $100 billion in the first decade, and the president's budget puts forward another 3$360 billion in health care cuts. over...

You reach the pinnacle, the top of your career, and you're always trying to figure out what's next. you really can't get any higher. and a lot of times you think that they would have everything, fame, fortune, success, and -- >> they're still human. >> they're still human. and you know what? the more you have to lose, the more you're going to be attacked, too. >> it's a shame. so many lives gone too soon. >> yep. now to another major headline this morning. the president outlines his big budget plans today before sending it on to congress. it should call for reducing the deficit by $4 trillio...

And the other half cover the other cost? unbridgeable again. >> probably going to come for, you know, brinksmanship again. and you're going to see something happen. but i think there's really a more important question. why in the world are we using social security taxes and undermining the one contractual benefit we have that's been solid to benefit? if we, in fact, want to put $120 billion into the economy, we ought to do it a different way than undermining social security. and look, you don't have to raise taxes on anybody and you don't have to freeze federal employees' pensions or benefits ...

Administration. we looked at it and we would roughly need 6 million jobs in the first four years just to stay even with population growth. so 2.5 million jobs the unemployment rate would increase. jimmy carter created 10.5 million jobs in his first four years. >> i think it is amazeing that people who we have lost 2.5 million jobs in this country and there is another state that is. >> that position to that that created a million jobs and for people to go that is not enough. any job at this this particular point in time helps. you give confidence to the american people. give you a good example,...