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Today, president obama's proposed cuts to social security are a miniajor concession to republicans, gene spurling is the direct of of president obama's national economic council and is kind enough to join us from the white house north lawn. thanks for joining us today, appreciate it. speaker boehner pointed out a short time ago he had some issues with this directly saying the increased revenues in the president's budgets, i think the number is $600 billion, that the white house is not heeding republicans' call for no new tax revenue. what's your response to the house speaker? >> the president'...

Himself enacting a broad public policy that he doesn't support and believes will harm the country. president of the economic policy institute said president obama shoulders part of the blame, i think they brought it on themselves to the extent they validated the deficit issue. >> we keep having not just republicans, but democrats agree to be on the playing field. where all we're talking about is how do we shrink the debt, how do we attack the deficits. we've gone completely off the plot. when president obama got elected to do was not deal with the deficit and debt. long-term, want to deal with...

>> chris: senator corker, democrats and you just heard this sort of from dirk durbin but i heard it in more extreme forms from other democrats say it is more important to have economic growth than to deal with the national debt. your response? >> i think we should have economic growth and obviously we would like to see that happen and i think reducing the deficit helps cre create econoc growth. look, i think it is ridiculous to say that cutting $1.2 trillion over the next decade when we will spend $47 trillion of your money is a step too far. of course, we need to do that. and on top of that w...

Democrats and you just heard this sort of from dirk durbin but i heard it in more extreme forms from other democrats say it is more important to have economic growth than to deal with the national debt. your response? >> i think we should have economic growth and obviously we would like to see that happen and i think reducing the deficit helps cre create econoc growth. look, i think it is ridiculous to say that cutting $1.2 trillion over the next decade when we will spend $47 trillion of your money is a step too far. of course, we need to do that. and on top of that we need to build towards th...

Look, this outreach could have happened in december. we could have dealt with this back then. get rid of this deficit issue. at least temporarily while we work on these other big ticket items. that second-guessing will certainly intensify if things start to break down. and if these budget debates eventually imperil the rest of the second term general including gun control and immigration. >> when you say obama moved to the far left, steve, when you talk about immigration, guns, marriage equality, tax fairness, these are issues that most people agree with the president on his position. so is it...