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>> former gop senator judd gregg, the recently retired former chairman of the senate budget committee is criticizing republican force ns for not off serious plan of his own. he said the president ought to force house republicans to put forward their plan. >> i can't understand why you have back-channel people in the white house saying we like it but we're not going to talk about it instead of the president stepping up saying, okay, my commission came forward with some ideas. you republicans either join that commission proposal or else you come up with your own ideas and call the bluff of the r...

They tried to cut spending. $16.3 billion which if you adjust to modern dollars is 22 billion. one fifth the size of what's being contemplated now. these are serious cuts across the board touching almost everything in discretionary meaning day-to-day functions of government and a political buzz s saw. >> one person upset that made for good tv when he was a sitting senator, now a former senator, judd gregg, take a listen. >> i can't understand at all why you have back channel people in the white house saying we like it but we won't talk about it right now. instead of the president stepping up s...

House that was on that commission voted against the commission proposal. >> i guess, congressman, the question i want to ask you is this is going to be the third straight trillion dollar deficit proposed by this president. where is the presidential leadership about cutting the debt and the deficit? >> well, let's remember that when the president put his hands on the bible and was sworn in, he faced a $1.3 trillion deficit. under this plan, it begins to reduce the deficit. it will drop to $1.1 trillion this year and then it goes down to primary balance 3.2% of gdp by 2017. so this is on a very ...