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Distorting the truth and if you are talking about fiscal resolve you are not showing it. i think if they change that unless they agreed to an accord with bigger cuts, it makes a mockery and it is theerl over it. >> you can't a process where you agreed to cuts where as it is a fall back position and come in later and with draw it. >> that makes you a phony it makes a speaker the phony on and democratic leadership a phony and canard of the entire process. you say you are serious about this. i was there last summer when the accord agreed to. i sweat my hiney off because you guys don't believe in ...

There is a new poll out that shows 85% of registered voters are not confident that a deal will be reached in time by the super committee. they are feeling the pressure again, but you have all of these reports out that this deadline doesn't mean anything and the cuts would not take effect for a long time and people are looking for ways to get around it. >> the expectations have been softened so much for members as well as the public you pointed out. it gives people a sense that nothing will get done. they are shuttling between offices and talking about working on a deal and promising to go thro...

Since he is republican reach of perhaps winning a couple of primaries, he had no fall back position. usually if you don't know right away, you have a template. politicians walk around with templates on foreign policy. how to put questions into it and they talk about broader issues in terms of national security. he had no clue on any level here. he was trying to find the easy answer. >> indeed. >> he said listen, the problem was that obama didn't identify the opposition before he went in and should have talked to the intelligence community. obama did and he was trying to prevent a massacre. he ...

>> but my question is on the number. if you get beyond $1 trillion and he still can't get any tax increases, the president said i'm not willing to cut more spending without having tax increases. >> well, what the president said was to do major structural changes on the spending side, there would have to be major tax increases, and we could see a path of getting to well over a trillion on something we agree to. >> if that's sort of a fallback plan, because he wanted something like $4 trillion over ten years in spending cuts -- erskine bowles told chuck todd on "the daily rundown" that that migh...

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