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So i think what will be in the deal, that remains to be seen. democrats want to end the sequester and republicans are saying they don't want to raise any taxes. i don't think you will see any type of grand bargain and what is in it remains to be seen. >> the big problem is still the 17 trillion plus debt. here is the debt clock. here it comes. there it goes. do you see the numbers? the deficit fell to $680 billion, the first time in five years it went under a trillion. how do you balance awful that debt, that big number with the deficit going down? they say the deficit will go up. how do they ...

Where is her personal responsibility to say, yes, he was entitled to this. congress may be voting to allow me to have this. but i will say no because i have enough money.ts $174,000 becaust was the salary he was making at the time he died. that money has been paid to widowses of other lawmakers. >> you are talking about a $17 trillion debt. you have the debt clock spirals upwards every second of every day. this is how we get to $17 trillion in debt. talk about $174,000 and really in the whole scheme of things it's like spitting into the ocean. but that's how you get into this mess. nobody take...

Going to go. but as you've within saying with other guests that we've had on, just when we think the house is going to go one way, they go another way. this is a process question. it's a question of how it's going to happen, not whether it's going to happen. how and when, not whether. >> and just again, the dow at 178, up. but the debt clock over on the far right, 12 hours, 23 minutes until this country is no longer to borrow money. congressional republicans say, listen, all we want is fiscal responsibility. but that clock doesn't care. default comes when that clock hits zero on something. r...

Even though they're not going to get officially paid just yet. however, republicans say if you bring it to the floor we want amendments, so we can bring up proposals that we think the democrats prevented us from voting. the democrats only want to bring it to the floor if it has an up or down no changes vote. so snag is a polite word. >> there is the debt clock out there already, the white house says they could be ready for a short-term solution. >> the adviser saying look, if congress wanted to pass a two-week or three-week extension, to allow us to negotiate that would be good. it would take ...

Floor to demonstrate good will. they want to get out ahead of it and say look, when you come back to work you will be paid. they want to do that and encourage a lot of people to come back to work during the furlough pay. they're not going to be officially paid just yet. however, republicans say if you bring it to the floor we want amendments, so we can bring up proposals that we think the democrats prevented us from voting. the democrats only want to bring it to the floor if it has an up or down vote, so there is a snag. >> there is the debt clock out there already, the white house says they c...