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Over 100,000 indirect jobs. time for the president to say yes and as i said all options are on the table. >> chris: will the house pass a budget this year and will it have serious entitlement reform in it again such as last year's proposal by paul ryan for premium supports as a way to change and reform medicare? >> that was one option on how we could save medicare. there are other ideas paul ryan and ron widen, democratic senator from oregon came up with a bipartisan proposal. the idea is we have to make changes to medicare otherwise it will not be there for seniors who count on it. we will do...

Say yesir and as i said, all options are on the table. >> chris: will the house pass a budget this year and will it have serious entitlement reform in it again such as last year'ss proposal by paul ryan or premium support as a way to change and reform medicare? >> that was one option on how we could save medicare. there are other ideas, paul ryan and ron widen, democrat senator from oregon came up with aoc bipartisan proposal. the idea here is that we've gota to make changes to medicare, otherwise it will not be there for seniors who care about it. so we will do a serious budget. but also reme...

And there is a lot of political posturing. republicans want to make sure this is paid for. and they would like to see businesses receive this payroll tax cut because that's what creates jobs. everyone knows the payroll tax cut doesn't help the economy but it does help people. rick: doug, let's say you are advising the democrats, how do you tell them to play their hand. >> ron made the essential point that the republicans have to cave. you put the heat on the republicans. the one thing i would urge the president to do that he hasn't done is use the opportunity that he has to talk about the payr...

Obama administration's position seems to be we can ignore the big problem so we can, you know, not have a tax reform, not have a big fiscal consolidation and we'll be fine if we buy a bunch of clunkers, going into four years. got to get off that bandwagon and start addressing our real problems. >> well, you know, kevin, bob just stay tuned for one sec is. i want to address the long-term fiscal problems, but, come on, the gop will not acknowledge the mathematical and demographic reality that if we're going to double the number of seen injuries on social security and medicare as the baby boomers...

powerful allegations about murray's actions and inaction. let's go to ted rollins in los angeles. what's the latest, ted? >> well, joe, it was a compelling day in court so far. it continues this afternoon here in los angeles. all day, it has been alberto alvarez, the director of lodgistics for michael jackson and he has taken the jury inside the jackson house during those critical moments of chaos while jackson was lying on his bed. he describes the scenario where he gets a call, rushes in, sees murray in the room. sees jackson laying there with his mouth open. he also testified that...