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Constituents, after $1.3 trillion spending bill you didn't vote for it but a lot of your colleagues did. what did you hear about that? >> the base is very upset. our brand is anything it is fiscal responsibility, count on this bread and butter for us but we don't have much of the press, the mainstream media, the hill rags, etc.. the house passed the budget, the military and that is it and to get the senate, 9 democrat senate votes, $400 billion, you never heard that in the deficit discussion, $150 billion from when we lower taxes and if you grow at 3% they are all paid for. we did 150, they ar...

Deficit discussion. so security trust fund doesn't have anything to do with the debt and deficit. but the idea that we're going to simply kick the can on that and have across the board social security cuts, you know, 15 years from now because we didn't step up responsibly i think does a great disservice to those who expected to have those benefits when they reach retirement age. >> senator mark warner, thank you for your time today. >> thank you, richard. let's bring in our political power panel, melinda, democratic strategist morris reed. let's start with you hogan. i want to start with thi...

But we're going to have a mad six-week scramble on dealing with the butch tark cuts, just like we did at the end of 2010 because there's no way either party has the stomach to actually deal with this looming issue, because by the way, they do nothing, tachs go up on everybody and by the way, it actually would bring down the long-term deficit discussion. but that's a whole another case, because nobody wants the middle class portion of the bush tax cuts to go up. but that's what we're dealing with. which is nothing rhetoric until november and then a mad scramble until the end of the year. >> chu...

Benefits and for sendsing the tax cuts. it seems the deficit argument is sort of moves like the wind blowing. >> one quick point. why, if rich people keep their money and spend it in the economy, is it a bad thing? and if the government takes it away and spends it on run-away spending programs it's a good thing? make that argument to me. >> answer my question. >> at the end of the day getting this economy moving and the chairman last night, if federal reon "60 minutes" he said now is not the time for deficit spending. now's the time to get the economy moving and that will ben pit the president...

It seems the deficit argument is sort of moves like the wind blowing. >> one quick point. why, if rich people keep their money and spend it in the economy, is it a bad thing? and if the government takes it away and spends it on run-away spending programs it's a good thing? make that argument to me. >> answer my question. >> at the end of the day getting this economy moving and the chairman last night, if federal reon "60 minutes" he said now is not the time for deficit spending. now's the time to get the economy moving and that will ben pit the president and benefit them all? >> i'm just expos...