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Senator rubio thank you. it's good to see you live from capitol hill. a double-dip today on "america's newsroom" with you. the house republicans are telling the senate to show their hand on a budget, a budget that has not been produced in the senate in about four years time. i'm curious on the outside, do you guys even talk about that in the senate? >> first of all i think people understand that the senate is controlled by democrats not by my party. if my marty was in charge much the senate it would have had a budget a longtime ago. bill: do you sit around and say, by law we are supposed to ha...

Politically disastrous showdown, we'll do it with an equally disastrous budget deal. i don't understand what is happening in the republican party right now, but it is not good for them. joining me now, robert greenstein, a man who always understands exactly what is happening. bob, good to see you. >> good to see you, ezra. >> so i guess my question is how, how do you make the budget balance in ten years, and keep to all of these different promises? do you know budget -- you know budgets better than anybody i know, so how? >> so there are three things to start with, and you have already mention...

Come from. >> we'll have that debate at a press conference on capitol hill. >> i'll go back and look at my numbers and i'll be ready for you. >> you do that. let's talk about the rumor that we've sort of thrown around over the last year or so, back in may, i asked eric cantor whether or not you should run for president and he said, quote, the following, he said, sure, i think paul is about real leadership. i think that that's what the public so desperately wants to do right now. they want to see washington that will lead. they don't want to see individuals dismiss the current problems as somet...

It the right time for him to give it? i think it might have been a little early. i get pushed back on that from the white house. they say to me any time the president gives a political speech, you get mad at him for it, you know, he is the president, he is a democrat, he owes it to the people to show where he stands on these issues, i still think if he wants to get something done in the budget a little early. >> okay, gloria borger, i love reading your columns. you can always go to cnn.com/opinion. ms. borger, appreciate t we will get you another political update in half an hour. now let's r...

Thes issues have to be dealt with now. every year it becomes harder and harder to deal with the issues and we get closer to the day when the horrible things that bernanke is talking about are going to happen. >> before the debt limit you have another issue to deal with this week and that is about funding the government before the deadline runs out on friday at midnight and there is growing support and we talked about this just with paul ryan within the gop since you are talking only about a couple of billion dollars here for only in washington would you say incidentally only a couple of billio...