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reporter: of course we ve had more nominee drama here at the white house. the president s pick for navy secretary, phillip bilden, has withdrawn his name due to complications with his business interests. besides the meeting today with the national governors association, the president is also expected to meet with top congressional leaders. and no doubt one of the things on the conversation list will be the president s big speech tomorrow on the hill. back to you. joe johns for us at the white house where there s a lot going on right now. we re expecting to hear from the president any moment now. while we wait for that, let s understand the math here, if and how it all works out. we re joined by cnn s chief business correspondent, christine roman. the magic math. how do you increase military spending without cutting entitlements? that s what we have to find out, how can we actually do that. stephen moore who actually ....
Still ahead, some day you will have to explain to your grandchildren about the year the republican presidential nominee tried to shame the democrat about cutting entitlements. that crooked hillary supports cutting medicare and social security benefits one more example of how hillary clinton s public position is a lie. she wants to knock the hell out of your social security. she wants to knock the hell out of your medicare and medicaid and i m going to save them. okay. this is a little reversal for the democrat/republican but i m going to save them. dr. jeffrey sachs joins us ahead with what needs to be done about the exploding national debt. we ll be right back. look at alls ....
Therefore i don t think the republicans were going to come to the middle and say you give us that cut in the enadvertisements, and we ll give you a little more taxes. i don t think there was any more give on either of those, not just the taxes. i don t think the republicans ever deep down wanted to cut the entitlements because there is no politics in it there just isn t. i think that some of the republicans do. the ones i would disagree with you on are people like paul ryan, who have a very dock stricken view of wanting to go after medicare. the purists. exactly. and there is a very small minority. that s why it was so risky to put him on the ticket because he is really a zealot when it comes to cutting entitlements. i think you re right on the main republicans have decided their best political position is stasis where they are now. i think they understand this, present new policy that is going to irritate their base with let s face it older americans. their base is much older. s ....
Congress. and hopefully we ve learned the lesson. we re not going to put the american economy on the brink once again. i know. i can just see your cynicism. but i think there is a committed group including the 12 or now 13 that met in susan collins office who know that this needs to be taken care of. so as we bring in more people, as more and more moderates speak out, i m encouraged in the future. obviously i am cynical. you re right about that. but, you know, there are moderates like you who and i don t want to in any way underminor demean those efforts, but you have been stymied by radicals of both parties. you have been. do you really think you can get this done? i mean, and this is a big deal. this is a big deal with cutting entitlements, dealing with taxes. that s what it s going to take. i would tell you that one of the things that s in this deal is getting back to regular order. ....
That we ve been through is embarrassing to every member of congress. and hopefully we ve learned the lesson. we re not going to put the american economy on the brink once again. i know. i can just see your cynicism. but i think there is a committed group including the 12 or now 13 that met in susan collins office who know that this needs to be taken care of. so as we bring in more people, as more and more moderates speak out, i m encouraged in the future. obviously i am cynical. you re right about that. but, you know, there are moderates like you who and i don t want to in any way underminor demean those efforts, but you have been stymied by radicals of both parties. you have been. do you really think you can get this done? i mean, and this is a big deal. this is a big deal with cutting entitlements, dealing with taxes. that s what it s going to take. i would tell you that one of the things that s in this deal ....