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Particularly some of the ideas that came to dealing with social security and medicare. yesterday i asked jack lew the budget director about the issue of the fact that the president seemed to sort of back off the compromised plan in grand bargain. he was negotiating with john boehner. here's what he said. >> six weeks ago, we were hoping to do something very big in the context of a very contentious political debate over the debt limit. when you go to bottom lines in a negotiation, that's a very different context than when you put out your vision. >> senator, this is a little backwards. usually ...

Wish they would compromise, 36%. they're doing the best they can, just 8%. do you see this gang of 38 as being a sign that washington is paying attention to the poll numbers and you are determined to get something done? >> i like that word "determined." we are. when i was home in colorado during august i heard over and over again "please go back there and work together. focus on a short term jobs package" and i thought ezra really pointed out the opportunity here and what we do face. couple it with a long-term debt plan. we couldn't do anything better for the country and those numbers hurt me ...

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Will, is the debt plan. his plan that he wants to give the super committee for the deficit reduction deal and what jay carney said is it will be basically inspired by the last deal that obama and boehner almost cut. the one that included when -- remember john boehner himself went on the floor of the house and said, i put revenues on the table. though the revenues that he would have agreed to, supposedly and the entitlement reforms that the president supposedly was ready to agree to that that would be the plan they would submit to the supercommittee with much bigger numbers. >> dan, you were tr...

Brit hume will handicap the final days of the battle and what the president is doing and not doing. we begin with mike emanuel on a busy day for lawmakers and switchboard operators. >> good evening, the white house today used a word that president obama did not use in his address to the nation. veto. this, has republicans are searching for the vote to pass speaker boehner's debt plan. >> phones have been ringing off the hook in offices on capitol hill the day after president obama encouraged americans to make their voess heard on the debt crisis. >> good afternoon, bill nelson's office. >> the...