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Contrast between what democrats want to do, what the president wants to do, giving millions of people a raise with the minimum wage, and really focusing on fairness for working people and for the middle class versus the priorities of the republican party, which it's unbelievable to me that in this budget, the first thing he does, this so-called deficit hawk, paul ryan, to blow a hole in the budget by giving huge tax breaks to the wealthiest among us. then he seeks to make it up, as he always does, on the backs of the poor. well, then again increasing spending on the military. it's unconscionab...

To be taken seriously. the idea that they didn't -- not one democrat wanted to join with republicans and say, i get it. the nation's spending is out of control. we are crippling not just the next generation but probably two generations. but that's not a big deal. it's just wrong. and so the idea that democrats don't care, didn't do one thing to say, you know what? while we've got this opportunity, let's at least cut or reform or do anything -- >> wait a second. historically we don't do that around raising the debt ceiling. >> we don't do it. >> arguably the president's a deficit hawk for cryin...

We tended to reduce our debt relative to gdp when the economy was strong. we tended to increase when the economy is weak. that's what you should do. this is not a hard call. as long as we have 4 million people who have been unemployed for more than a we're this is not a time to be worried about reducing the budget deficit. give me something more of an employment situation and i'll become a deficit hawk. >> over the past 12 years, 10 years, 11 years, george w. bush spent $6 trillion in debt, over the past four years, barack obama under the obama administration additional $6 trillion in debt. th...

Welcome back, breaking news in talks and early meeting ending with no deal with a debt ceiling breach and no polling by a 60-35 margin and they would vote out the entire congress if they could. gloria boringer and former u.s. comptroller david walker, he's what you call a deficit hawk. he's ceo of the come back initiative. developments on a potential deal tonight. what do you make of this? do you see the house republicans going along with the idea of separating or working on both the debt ceiling as well as the shutdown? >> a great majority and ed essentially the leadership, anderson, are sayi...

The debt ceiling spending cuts is a reasonable thing to do, why isn't the president listening to the american people, if not congress? >> because i think there are -- it's not so easy to understand how the budget works. if the debt ceiling -- look, i've a deficit hawk, but if you don't fund our bills, you will precipitate a worldwide collapse. >> we're not talking about funding our bills. we'll fund the bills and we want spending cuts. >> certainly you can have your cake and eat it, too? >> yes. why can't we do both? >> first of all, i would like to say both of these parties are responsible fo...