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Make the investments. what is the alternative? >> the alternative is we have to figure out how to afford the government we want and want want the government we can afford and that means some consistency. lot of the issue is not with the national debt but our unwillingness on the republican side to pay for it with revenue increases, tax increases and on the democratic side the unwillingness to make some cuts in favor to entitlement programs. we need to do both. president obama in recent months has been offering a compromise saying yes, we will cut some of our favorite programs. you've got to ra...

Ellison calling on president obama to walk back the budget reforms in his proposals that would -- former dnc governor and former rnc chairman and nbc analyst michael steel. good to have you with me. governor, i'll begin with you, besides the gop, should the president walk back the social security changes? >> of course not. look, the bottom line is, if we're going to have a grand bargain, if we're going to deal with the debt problem that's facing america and i believe is like an elephant pressing down on our economy, if we're going to get that solved, we're going to have to make concessions. we...

Samuelson, it's hysterical. obama do something about our entitlements e. says he's going to and then the republicans all cry, oh it's not enough, he doesn't mean it. come on. the larger issue here is though republicans seem to procedure get who won the election and seem to not be paying attention to every public opinion poll since then. americans are not worried about the debt and deficit, they are worried about jobs. we have a short-term jobs problem, we have a long-term debt problem. you fix jobs, you get people back to work, you start growing incomes again, you start to pay down the deficit...

The left. >> we see, that's the thing. look, i think we really need to lower our voices, perhaps, negotiate in private and recognize the president has problems from left flank, the republicans from the right flank. but we all have to come together because these are american problems. they're not democratic problems. it is not the president's problem. it is all of our problems. if we can do immigration, we can do guns and we can do something about the burgeoning debt problem, the entitlement problem which is unsustainable. we all benefit. but if we all fail, we all lose, rick. jon: something li...

Stance. we're not going to, what are we going to do? we can't ignore the situation because of the nuclear and ballistic capabilities. we can't hig it out with north further cree. not -- north korea. not we will have to open a dip late mat tick channel and address this behavior. the only way we want to do that is through china. we have so limited options here and china has to get on board with this. martha: all right. >> for whatever reason they're not right now. and i think we need to do a better job understanding what their agenda is in this game. martha: secretary of state john kerry has his...