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Something the president said on friday when it comes to medicare and this idea of mean testing for all of medicare. we know parts of it i think with the prescription drug benefit are means tested. is it right for the president to put that on the table, and could you support that as part of the so-called grand bargain? >> well what we're doing right now is trying to make sure that we can address our -- our long term and short term deficit problems. we're trying to make sure we can solve this problem in a big way, and the president has said repeatedly that he wants a big deal on the table. what ...

Them, they will good to us on oil deal. we can't be in a position we are going to wars, the troops are committed. we have problems at home, budget problems and deficit problems and we're ready for another war. are you kidding me? the president has to be called to accounting on this. this is not academic matter. this is about the constitution. if we stand by the constitution, we'll be safe. if we don't, america is going deeper in a war that we propose will be days, not weeks. we're in it once. no end in sight. >> john: on subject of accountability you suggest the way the president went into lib...

For speaker boehner to say that yesterday on the "today" show. >> maybe subliminal talk that they are on the table. >> seems sheer craziness. there are huge problems, budget problems, deficit problems. at some point, the speaker has to put aside his own personal career values because of the tea party folks and house he has to deal with and put the nation's interest to the forefront. if he doesn't, if they don't come up with some kind of agreement, we're in for a whole lot of hell. >> when do you figure that's going to happen? >> i don't know. >> mark, this is not john boehner going rogue on th...

Households, paid no tax at all in 2010. the vast majority of these people, however, are low incomep. remember, though, a lot of people say, you should boost taxes on the rich and very understandable to think you may want people who earn a million dollars or more to pay taxes. that aside, there certasimply a enough to eliminate our debt and deficit problems if you did. lot of opinions if you should or shouldn't. find the story on the newly redesigned money.com. it is helpful. like the cnn.com site, the money.com site has a most popular stories gauge, so you can see what people are reading. righ...

Probably much less than the paycheck when working for the man, but the income tax they owe on that might have been more than offset by the large house they own or the big pete of property where they also get big tax breaks. some of the ways this could have happened. >> we're only talking about very small segment of the population. about 4,000 people. right? >> reporter: right. very, very small. >> very, very small. we hear boosting taxes on the rich. will they solve the nation's fiscal problems or won't they, and why? >> reporter: right. what's interesting about these numbers, they point out t...