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Into the speaker's race. he really does want to go and focus on the kind of reforms that he's been working on formerly as budget chairman now. to fix the tax code in this country and solve the entitlement problem, there's a lot he wants to do. unfortunately, washington, as you know, that dynamic with having barack obama and the white house unwilling to work over the last several years, you know, i'm not so sure how much is going to change as far as results are concerned but paul is going to be very focussed o d trying to at least set the table on what the discussion is going to be about in 16....

Can make this case. he made the case against government employee unions better than anyone. he made the case for reform. i think the second part of it though is that it didn't go that far in new jersey and there's a question here. this is a start at what he's talking about but to be clear, what he's saying now, he's talking about raising the retirement age a few years, he's talking about means testing social security benefits. >> which means that well-to-do retirees get fewer benefits. >> right. >> in the future. >> in the future. not right now. but in the future. you, james, not dan and me bu...

But herself and entitled to the office. i think that's a huge mistake. >> i don't feel like the entitlement problem is one that democrats will necessarily react to. democrats above a certain age are used to the notion she was the first lady she was the secretary of state. she's larger than life to many democrats. i think, though again the details of what she did and why she did it what might be contained within the e-mails, the substance of it is what is going to matter. all though it won't necessarily matter once the campaign gets underway. i'm not sure that people in new hampshire or iowa or...

Months ago with senator murray. paul is a serious guy that understands that growth and getting tax rates right is the most important thing to grow the pie so that we can do the things that are important for the country. and unfortunately there is not enough engagement on the other side for paul ryan -- >> but even on his side, jimmy, paul ryan has not found a lot of republicans to agree with him to go out on a limb to say we have the entitlement problem. and what he's proposed is hardly draconian, but even that limited effort, and i do not say thatgl congressman. it gets him in a whole heap of...

Years. it is true that the personnel budget has been exploding. it has been growing faster than anything else. and secretary hagel has a problem, if he doesn't cap it, bend that curve, we're going to end up with our department of defense and the social services and health care organization that occasionally fights wars. so we have to put a cap on it. the real problem that you have suggested is that we're capping the entitlements of this 1% who have sacrificed, and we don't have the courage to take on the bigger entitlement problem of the other 99%. because we don't do that, we're actually putt...