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Senator ted trus saying they want something but they are going to ask for changes to obamacare and not anything to deal with long drivers of the debt and big changes and those are put off until 16 or 17 before anything like that is done and a political reason for both sides to avert their ways and say move along. republicans don't want to be seen as the scold party to use mika's word. they want to move past beyond being the no deficit party. and the president knows that deficit cutting is a loser in the midterm elections so he is happy to take their lead and move along. >> should we put the te...

>> hello, lindsey graham. thre threatens to kick some you know what. he says, quote, we are screwing america's veterans with this budget. we'll hit that in a moment. to dana bash we go, our chief congressional correspondent. the vote here in the senate. this is not the absolute final vote. this was the procedural vote today on the budget. can we say this is pretty much a done deal here? >> yes, we can say it's pretty much a done deal. the time vote is going to be tomorrow. based on the fact that a dozen republicans joined all democrats in the key procedural vote today, probably won't get that ...

Numbers went to haitis in a hand basket. but the conservatives do have one point to make is there is no deficit cutting here, no spending cutting. it is very minor. and the democrats in the senate are unhappy over unemployment, whatever. but, look, they want to get the focus off of budget and on to obamacare. but the problem is they still have no positive message. but they don't want to look totally -- >> well, john, do they need a message or sit on their hands and let democrats through obamacare melt down. >> this agreement for boehner is that it is clear the decks, we will not be the center ...

Tackle inequality. paul krugman writes, this is a really huge important part of where the country is at. he says for bottom 90% imimpoverishment reflects both a shrinking economic pie and declining share of that. inequality rising so fast, over the past six years as big a drag on american incomes as america's poor economic performance even though the years include the worst economic slump since the 1930s. what's amazing, out of the recession washington talk dominateed with deficit cutting and cutting spending and not actually addressing this thing, which is as big a drag on the economy as anyt...

In boehner's caucus, this guy must be lying, don't have the votes. we know he does. won't bring it to the floor. the bare majority, though they lost popularity in the house, works. we have systemic problems underlying it. what was most interesting about john boehner's statements today. he doesn't believe it. several as go. he said the opposite, not deficit cutting, it was obama care. the deficit has been cut by half, the president said today. >> let's go to more what the president said in his news conference. he talked about the concept of ransom, something we are going to be hearing in every ...