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Simplistic. >> no, it's not. because now "the new york times" which always talks about there's a grave social security crisis and american politicians won't -- unit is republicans face up to it and george bush gets shellacked in 2005. now republicans, paul ryan -- oh, there's no social security crisis but we need to raise the taxes. >> the president is going to be addressing the deficit issue on wednesday and my gut is he might even, i would hope, look at the very commission he put to work on the issue and maybe look at some of the recommendations, and i think he should. and i think pentagon c...

Around the question of which of the policy issues, planned parenthood is still on the table and that's one of the obstacles if not the biggest obstacle. >> this is fascinating, all day long, i know you're watching it closely too. according to democrats, they have agreed to the figure. the figure is around $37 billion in cuts. that's the figure that boehner himself floated. in fact, i think it is a little higher than the number boehner floated initially a week or so ago in these cuts. so if you listen to democrats, they say we're there on the spending. the only thing left to discuss is this iss...

Long-term deficit issue. the president and the administration have not been specific about what it wants to do to solve the long-term national debt problem. so it's very -- you know, what paul ryan has done and what eric cantor and all the other republicans are saying is they're putting the white house on notice that we're willing to go toe to toe with you. here is our proposal. now where's yours? we've gone through this before with the administration and the president remember with health care reform. you know, nancy pelosi and harry reid and senator bachus and democrats on the hill were out ...

Of sanity in terms of government spending and in trying to solve this deficit issue and trying to do that smartly and wisely so that we can get the economy moving again and so that we also when we're cutting spending we also are smart enough to make sure that we're investing for the future as well. >> alfred, we were talking earlier about how things are looking up in business. in your business and a lot of businesses that you're talking to, when you hear these things, gas prices are high, housing is going down, problems in local government, are you still optimistic? >> optimism is relative. yo...

Wisconsin senate majority leader joining us in 35 minutes and tell us about the breaking news. this isn't just about wisconsin. this is going to be all the states who say they can't balance their budgets when it comes to public unions. >> let's go to capitol hill because our own federal government hasn't been able to pass a budget for the year we're currently living in, 2011. guess what happened yesterday, as predicted, both of the bills, the g.o.p. version and the democratic one both did not pass. but the interesting thing is 11 democrats, one independent, 10 democrats, did not vote for the d...