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Significant changes to our entitlement programs in order to reduce the deficit. i offered not only $1 trillion in -- over $1 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years, but these changes would result in even more savings in the next ten years. and would solve our deficit problem for a decade. they say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way. the way they're behaving is that their only priority is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are protected. that seems to be their only overriding unifying theme. and at some poin...

Every year. over a trillion dollars. it's not sustainable. >> but doesn't -- i'm saying, if we -- all of these issues, with all the bush tax cuts going away, the sequester, payroll tax expiring, the estate tax, if we do all the stuff that the fiscal cliff or the fiscal curb, whatever you call it does, the deficit problem is solved? >> no. i have no idea what the specific number is but i know we're over $16 trillion in debt and like i said, we're spending a trillion more a year than we currently have. no one -- everybody keeps talk, about entitlement reform and how we need to reform the program...

John boehner as house speaker? >> there are a group of people that are focused on that but i don't think that's our real focus. our real focus is ringing in the out of control spending and living within our means. that's what most people are concerned about. get rid of john boehner, who else are we going to get? i mean, we lost the election. elections have consequences. we're not going to get everything we want. but we need to focus on the real issue of our debt and deficit. instead of focusing on the power of who's in charge in the republican party and the democratic party and who's winning o...

Them have been so fair that a lot of democrats get mad at me. i mean, i offered to make some significant changes to our entitlement programs in order to reduce the deficit. i offered not only $1 trillion -- over $1 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years, but these changes would result in even more savings in the next ten years and would solve our deficit problem for a decade. they say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way, but the way they're behaving is that their only priority is to making sure that the tax breaks for the wealthi...

>> we put those americans back to work. >> laura: i'm very confused none of it is is obama's fault but it is the tea party's fault. >> i didn't blame the tea party. >> laura, one thing i can't understand here is i can agree with katrina saying we have a job problem. how is raising taxes help? it doesn't make sense to me. if you say we don't have a short-term deficit problem. we have had 4 straight trillion-dollar deficits. at what point does that become a problem. >> half of that is because of the economic crisis. $600 billion of that is because of the economic crisis. >> laura: what did the p...