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Obama is set to release next week and members of both parties say they are not happy about some of the details. for one thing, the president is offering to cut social security and other benefit programs, but only if republicans agree to tax hikes on the richest americans. house speaker john boehner saying, quote, if the president believes these modest entitlement savings are needed to help shore up these programs, there is no reason they should be held hostage for more tax hikes. congressman gerald nadler a new york democrat saying, quote: i will never support any reductions in social security...

It's voluntary, you can sign a permission slip and they're not keeping the information, it's going to a private company but at the end of the day, if they don't do this, they're fined. that's not voluntary. >> one thing that stuck out is if you don't pay and no one's firing you but the boss knows who has not who hopped on the s. >> it's uncomfortable but it's not deemed illegal. what the concept is bring the good-faith benefit programs to promote wellness. feeling when they take care of themself they'll do better at their jobs and, more importantly, they'll reduce healthcare cost for the compa...

The floor so that he can waltz with the president. it is a leadership issue, but it's also reflective of exactly what we saw during the election. the republican party has much greater -- i would argue that you have -- you have members of the progresssive wing, and i want to ask you about that. there are democrats that have been angry. you look at move on and huffington post. there has been outcry from the left about earned benefit programs like social security and medicare on the table as the president has done, but at the end of the day you get a sense that democrats will take it if this is t...

Skewed, so wrong because we don't have a short-term deficit problem. we have a jobs and growth problem. i know people are agonizing. paul crudeman is agonizing about where it can did go. it's legitimately. is no -- is no bargain a better bargain than a raw bargain? it seems to me to make a deal on the backs of the most vulnerable in our country is the worst way to go. i don't think we're looking at balance. to me the way the media has characterized balance is so wrong because the vulnerable, the middle class, the lower working class don't have lobbies in washington where. >> democrats say we h...

Can sit there and label the earned benefit programs as the cuts that have to take place when we have been in two wars that weren't paid for and big pharma that took us to where we are. i mean, i think we're missing the conversation in in country. how did we get here? molly, how did we get so far in the hole? what did we do? >> well, we spent money we didn't have, obviously. now we're looking for a way to resolve that. i think what you're hearing, too, part of the nervousness and part of the problem pr republicans is the things they are talking about aren't popular. as you've talked about a lot...