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Democrats in less than an hour to talk about solutions to the debt. his opponents are off, a sneak peek at how negotiations are likely to go. >> the only way we see going forward is to cut spending, reform entitlement problems, programs, that's what'sç causi the deficit, not that we aren't taking enough money out of the taxpayers' pockets. that's not what's causing the deficit. >> senator bernie sanders independent from vermont, delighted to say he joins us capitol hill. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> is it just me, or is this deja vu again? didn't we go through all of the sabre ...

The only way it's going to get done dealing particularly with the entitlement problems. republicans are ready to meet him halfway. right now he seems to be very timid about taking the leadership role that the president typically takes in these battles. >> chuck todd is our political director. tell us what's going on here. you have republican whose are afraid to talk about social security and medicare on the house side and medicaid and pentagon spending. you have a white house that doesn't want to touch it. as the senator said, we're talking about 12% of the budget. i'm a small government guy. ...

Said he's going to take? >> none whatsoever. he cares about the deficit but didn't offer proposals. we'll get a better idea with the budget but no spectaculars in the speech. >> you know, dan, the president may have missed a moment here. i think particularly with his language on social security and medicare, it was all negative. you cant do this and that, but we need to reform it i think he misjudged the fact that a fair number of republican want to tackle these problems and had he gotten ahead thav and say i am willing to do this and let's think and do this he might have held out a olive bran...

We need to cut those so businesses know there's security. with cap and tax and democrat promises to ram through healthcare takeover, business are not expanding. >> we're running out of time. what's the answer? >> the answer is to look to the free market solutions for entitlement problems, social security, paul rhine has a great proposal, looking at personal retirement accounts, allowing individuals to invest social security taxes in personal retirement for a better rate of return when individuals invest instead of the government. ac looking at the retirement age, which is low based on life exp...

He inherited two wars and financial collapse of our markets. so it's been a tough go. this budget is a tough budget. the first priority needs to be to invest in job creation. we have to do it in a fiscally disciplined way. >> chet edwards was asking the budget office questions and pointed out they did not tackle the entitlement programs and did not tackle the mega spending that happened alongside social security or medicaid and they didn't put forward any kind of budget freeze. are there things that you're surprised now to see that your republican colleagues are not embracing in terms of tryin...