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Of the republican race, mitt romney can finally turn his attention to the fall fight against president obama. if this week is any indication, it's shaping up to be quite a brawl. so what will the november election turn on? will it be the so-called war on women? will it be the economy? or what? kim, you know, the economy has taken a lot of attention this week, but i got to say that the fight over women, that holds center stage now, doesn't it? >> yeah, does it. the way i look at this, this is the first of many flashpoints and hullabaloos you'll see from now until november, fight over an issue l...

Of the republican race, mitt romney can finally turn his attention to the fall fight against president obama. if this week is any indication, it's shaping up to be quite a brawl. so what will the november election turn on? will it be the so-called war on women? will it be the economy? or what? kim, you know, the economy has taken a lot of attention this week, but i got to say that the fight over women, that holds center stage now, doesn't it? >> yeah, does it. the way i look at this, this is the first of many flashpoints and hullabaloos you'll see from now until november, fight over an issue l...

That drew a lot of fire from democrats. we're told that the ryan budget, which will be out at 10:30 tomorrow morning, will include changes to medicare again. we'll call it changing medicare. protects people who have it now. but will reduce benefits in the future. and he'll push for tax reform. again, i think you're going to hear house republicans say that they think that arguments have moved toward them since last year, that there's more of a consensus for tax reform which the president has proposed, that's there's more of a consensus for changes to medicare. david brooks wrote last week that ...

Around $900 billion over ten years. >> the full accounting of the bill is $2.6 trillion. that is a fair and accurate analysis of what the bill will cost according to cbo and the president sold it to the american people as a $900 billion bill. >> you have to take a lot of the projections with a grain of salt and two aspirin. the bottom line healthcare has a lot to do with the major deficit problems. we have to work together to curve excessive spending on healthcare. because that's crushing the american debt and deficit picture. >> bret: there are new projections out from the congressional budge...

Lot of money and mitt romney has to respond on issues that are different than how do we solve a terrible tax code? how do we fix our deficit problems? how do we get more competitive in this country? you'll see them fighting on things like abortion and other conservative issues. i guess that is my concern here. >> that's a great point. we talk on this show all the time about wanting the debate america deserves on tax reform, on bank reform, on trade reform just to pick up where rob said. how much does it hurt our ability to resolve the jobs crisis in this country if we continue to have these po...