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Liability, that they are leaving on this generation and the next. >> so are you saying you're willing to -- if you could get a compromise on entitlements -- then you would give up on the sequestration? >> what we have always said in the house as republicans, leadership and members alike, is that we want to fix the real problem. the real problem is entitlements. we've always said, sequester is t the best way to go about spending reductions. it was, as you know, a default mechanism, because congress couldn't do the job it was supposed to a couple years ago. we've always said that. >> are you rea...

President to get some progress going here now, he talks about job creation. we in the house, we passed a bill that speaks to the fact that there are unemployed workers because they don't have the right skills necessary. the president could pick up the phone and tell harry reid to bring that bill right up. we've passed a number of energy bills in the house that go toward trying to relieve the consumers out there in the middle of the summer driving season at the increasing price at the pump. is the president joining us, encouraging the senator to bring it up. >> i raised exactly the same issues ...

President putin. frankly i n' go. maybe just betrays my own personal background, chris, but i think it's a jump ball whether he should go to saint petersburg for the g-20 at all. >> you've been on the fringes of it. let's get directly into this question of the nsa, what it's doing, whether should be new limits. general, the house almost passed, as you well know last week, a measure offered by congressman amash, that would have put an end to the kind of blanket collection of phone records of all americans, and instead limit that only to information on americans who were under specific investiga...

>> let me continue to address the list of items that you put forward. one, on the farm bill, we have passed a farm bill. we in the house, we said we're going to bust up the almost 50-year custom where would you going to marry up two issues and force people to vote on those. we passed a farm bill. republican majority for the first time says we don't like the way things have always been done in washington. that's exactly what we're trying to change. we're going to bring a bill forward under chairman lucas' leadership that actually says about food stamps, we want the people who need those food st...

Programs, and unfunded liability, that they are leaving on this generation and the next. >> so are you saying you're willing to -- if you could get a compromise on entitlements -- then you would give up on the sequestration? >> what we have always said in the house as republicans, leadership and members alike, is that we want to fix the real problem. the real problem is entitlements. we've always said, sequester is not the best way to go about spending reductions. it was, as you know, a default mechanism, because congress couldn't do the job it was supposed to a couple years ago. we've always ...