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Reduction or budget controls in the federal budget, if you don't have a suggestion about how to help contain costs in the health care sector, since the government is already so heavily invested in that sector through medicare/medicaid, veterans health benefits. that's why 20 years ago republicans were proposing plans based on what they thought would do this kind of thing, help control these costs. >> well, for instance if you look forward to the budget projections by the cbo, more than 100% of our ongoing budget deficit is due to health care costs. the whole rest of the government absent healt...

Can't get my pen to draw a little bit, come down to $3.6 trillion. all of this has come out of discretionary spending. there's been no cuts in entitlements, no cuts in the mandatory programs. if you look at the effect of that on the economy as the deficit comes down it makes the economy grow less, contracts the economy. you've had a very dramatic effect, more than we've ever seen before. this shows the effect on gdp when the budget is more in a deficit position, when it's more -- less in a deficit position, even surplus position back in the day. what you can see again at the time of the obama ...

And the vast majority did. >> reporter: thanks for covering this. >> i want to cover this without being partisan. can you explain to the american people why we have to get to this just to get a two-month agreement here. >> it's because we are so very different in the way we want to pay for the extension of the tax cuts. we do not want social security to start going into a further deficit position. therefore, republicans are insisting that there be some kind of offset and that's where the disagreement is so stark and causing all of these delays. >> do you understand as well as your fellow senat...

Time speaker gingrich in a deficit position. so that's the schizophrenia that the republican party now finds itself in. a lot of as you know a lot of what you call traditional mainstream establishment republicans are very worried about that going into the fall not just about winning the election but what it does downstream to the party. does it do real damage to the party for the long haul if you get a third-party candidate coming out of this who is more right of center. >> if i'm not mistaken if i have your book orders right, i believe your previous book was '68. do you see a lot of parallel?...

i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the u.s. pullout of iraq and its final hours. in 19 days all troops will be out. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki traveled to washington to meet president obama today. >> this is a historic moment. a war is ending. a new day is upon us. and let us never forget those who gave us this chance. the untold number of iraqis who have given their lives. more than 1 million americans, military and civilian, who have served in iraq. nearly 4,500 fallen americans who gave their last full measure of devotion. we have a moral obligation to all of them to ...