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Krauthammer. for secondly day we're getting into it. this is tough to swallow but those two statements from the budget director, one a couple weeks ago and one when he worked with president clinton are very different? >> what lew said ten years ago is true. the social security trust fund is a fiction. it's a fraud. it doesn't exist. it's a box in west virginia with a bunch of pieces of paper. when you have fica have taken out of paychecks it doesn't end up in the box. it goes to the treasury which spends it. it's been spent for the last 50 years. it no longer exists and when you and i retire i...

steve brown with today's developments. good evening, steve. >> reporter: good evening, brett. governor walker has been telegraphing the move reiteratelogy, revamping union rules or layoffs. >> i don't want anybody laid off and 1500 state workers. >> they returned after two week continuous occupation last night around 10:00 p.m. dane county judge ordered protestors can be inside during regular hours, but may not bring in cooking gear, bed rolls and no new signs may be posted. >> coming back during the day. >> we will come in. >> 1500 state workers will be laid off. notices were be to ...

dealing with entitlements. carl cameron reports on what republican lawmakers plan to do about the entitlement issue but we begin with white house correspondent mike emanuel on the sales pitch. >> the morning after his $3.7 trillion budget was released he held a news conference to defend it. >> the first step is to make sure we are stabilizing the current situation. >> he has taken a great deal of heat by not offering plans for bloated entitlements and medicare and medicaid. he is not trying to wait out the republicans. >> this is not a matter of you go first or i go first but everybo...

We can't afford to wait until markets collapse. >> reporter: conrad, a fiscal hawk says he saw no effort to tackle the long term debt crisis. jack luce says they are trying to move gradually to avoid a shock to the system. >> we have to stop adding to it and this budget would get us there. >> before the committee the reception was more chilly. >> he punted. he said confronting our debt head-on, president has presented us with a budget, spends too much and borrows too much and taxes too much and that costs jobs and opportunity. >> paul ryan said, it's going to include real entitlement reforms s...