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>> he's insisting republicans go first. >> he's doing what you said he should do about a year ago. >> ask the congressman. >> he's the majority leader, let's stop interrupting. >> given that you are all going to go first, what do you think the likely month or two-month window is where you'll be able to strike a deal if one is to be struck on entitlement reform and tax reform? are we talking about the spring, sujer, fall, next year? >> that really is a great question and where is the sweet spot. we'll be unveiling our budget next month. you know, the budget committee under paul ryan is hard at ...

Committed to doing it now. looks like they're going forward with it. >> really? good. >> i think the president has a chance to belatedly lead. >> it's perfect. it's not belated. >> we had mccarthy on yesterday, cantor's been on, boehner has been on. >> mitch mcconnell. >> they all talked about we're going to take on social security, we're going to take on medicare. that's significant. i don't bring up medicaid. >> he's not going to denounce them. >> we're not talking about denouncing them. how about just saying -- >> how about being real? >> we'll have to raise the retirement age, we have to t...

Talked enough about. as you know, our national network convention is in a couple weeks in new york. one of the things we're going to concentrate on, as no child left behind runs out, what do we look at as the education policy in the country. how do we deal with the teacher acountability question? how do we deal with tenure and all of the things that have been raised that now can be raised in a policy level into new law? i think polls have not been discussed enough in terms of how we reform teacher tenure. i think how we deal with equal funding and education cuts, all of this needs to be discus...

Agree on is the fact that you can't balance this budget by slashing 10% of the budget. you cannot slash discretionary domestic spending without causing real problems with local governments, state governments. without causing cops, firefighters, infrastructure, r & d, education, the things we need to invest in. so the question is, are we going to get both parties to start acting responsibly? barack obama bragging about cutting home heating oil assistance to the poor. >> the answer is, we're not. actually i think we're going to reach an agreement which is going to increasingly gut what the gover...

Been reporting that the workers were taken out of the nuclear plant because radiation levels had gone so high. a government official called it an evacuation, that they were gone, it was too dangerous, but then they sort of backtracked on that and 45 minutes later said they were allowing the workers back into the plant. that is say critical difference. they really are sort of a last line of defense to keep the reactors cooled down. we had a situation where a cabinet minister from the japanese government misstated the levels of radiation by a thousand times. there was a question asked from a gov...