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And maybe it's not a priority now the kuchar priority is growth that when it does it become a priority and what it does do attack entitlements? >> i can tell you from the first day of his administration president trump has been telling every agency of the government to sharpen its pencil. all of our actions going forward represent this commitment for fiscally responsible spending but if you speak to president trump about the issues of long-term debt and deficits he believes growth is the answer and that's the reason why i am here in pennsylvania. that's the reason why members of our cabinet ar...

The president said i'm going to show you, america, that i am going to taken -- attack entitlements. i'm going to do it on medicare and social security. he is going to introduced chained c.p.i. which will no longer link inflation to the amount of money that you get. if inflation goes up, it is not going to affect your paycheck. it will be $130 billion over ten years and up to 339 during that time if you factor in everything. but you won't get the raise in age, which i thought was important. if you can get it up to 67 because we're living a lot longer than we used to -- >>gretchen: so i'm clear,...

This issue the past couple of months. >> thank you. >> where are you right now from everything you've seen up close? the white house, of course, responded strongly to your article suggesting that this was all just sort of a charm offensive. the house now is saying only certain things we can do. behind the scenes are you hearing a little bit more movement? >> yeah. i'm like mark. i'm getting a little bit optimistic that maybe both sides might have the courage and the foresight to accept up and lead. i don't believe speaker boehner when he says no more tax cuts. i think that is positioning and i...

>> well, not -- listen to the g.o.p. and they say, you better start attacking the social security and the problems we have with it, now, because as of 2037, the cbo says we'll be out of money, this year alone, we'll spend $45 billion, that will come out of social security, in excess of what is put into it and, it will be a $45 billion drain on the trust fund which has $2.5 trillion, that is good news and the bad news is 2037 we'll have completely drained the swamp and the g.o.p. the last couple days, paul ryan and a couple of the republican senators said what we need to do is attack entitlemen...