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E-mail -- >> imagine the size of the e-mail file on that baby. bill: cannot open this, the white house budget director defending the budget proposal as a good start to getting the country's debt under control and, the budget director made the rounds, making the case for the president today. >> cannot fix our fiscal debt, we have to tighten our belt and make savings there but need to much beyond it and the budget has savings in defense, $78 billion, of savings, compared to last year's budget over five years. it has savings in entitlement programs and we have 62 billion dollars of savings, in he...

Crisis and, again i ask -- >> you're right. >> why then wouldn't the president address any of that at all in this budget blueprint? >> well, first of all, norah, the president has talked about it and he does address it in his budget blue print. the president has said time and again that we've got to address issues with regard to medicare and medicaid and there are medicare savings that are a part of this budget. in fact about $62 billion worth of savings and he's consistently said let's work with congress to get it done and get it done right. but as we all know -- i've worked in this town for ...

I think it is a mistake to say that the commission's report did not have an impact. hit a very significant impact. >> basically, they say look, discretionary spending, great, cut back. plenty of things. what about medicare? where -- where are the big ideas for the big things -- big programs that suck money out of the economy? >> well, i think if you look at the entitlements we have important policy in this budget. there is a provision for the last number of years congress has passed on a bipartisan basis to make sure the payments doctors under medicare do not get cut. if the payments the docto...

>>clayton: and congressman dix says the house republicans have put together a budget for the reminder of the fiscal year representing serious cut back to economic recovery. >>governor huckabee: we spent $862 billion on the magnificent stimulus and since they passed the bill, we have had an unemployment level that has gone between 9.5 percent and 10 percent and stayed around 9.8 percent so it has not worked. maybe budget cutting would be a better idea than government spending. and for most americans, watching the government continue to reach deep into their pockets and paychecks and spend money...

Corporate taxes would spur investment domestically. we think it would bring funds back to the united states, interestingly, grant thornton did a study in 2004 when there was a tax holiday on repay tri yags of funds, $362 billion came back into the united states for investment. and we think it's more attractive for global companies to relocate to the united states with a lower corporate tax rate and a more effective corporate tax system, all leading to what we believe would be investment and potentially more jobs. >> steven moore, will the people who generally back the idea of corporate -- cutt...