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To him a year from now trying to make a deal. >> well, you know, anderson, i look at life a little bit differently needless to say than the president does. i think one of the reasons this legislation went down today is that all over this country we had hundreds of thousands of people coming out to rallies, cnn covered town meetings where instead of having 20 or 30 people agreeing with the republican member of congress, let's cut social security and medicare, you had a thousand people showing up saying you know what? you're not going to triple the rates that i pay for health insurance. you're n...

What are you and the senate leadership looking to do about that? >> well, we've got legislation in that i hope that gets to the floor, which deals with the absurd reality that when we have a $17 trillion national debt, one out of four corporations in this country pays zero in federal taxes. >> wow. >> because so many of them are stashing their money in the cayman islands, bermuda, and other tax havens. so the idea that many of my republican colleagues say gee we have to balance the budget. let's cut social security, medicare, medicaid, education, nutrition, oh, but by the way, it is okay that ...

Elections, is at the very top of their list. in terms of what they want to accomplish. >> yeah. senator, on the other hand, with cruz gaining in notoriety, popularity and with the fringe right, does it make the democrats' job a little bit easier making the case to america about what are our priorities? >> well, the answer is yes and no, ed. in one sense, obviously, he is such an extremist that once you talk about his agenda, it becomes easy to defeat him. but on the other, what he and others have managed to do is move the democratic party further to the right. you and i have talked about this ...

Touched or addressed is in fact, the majority of the budget that is in the large so-called mandatory spending programs. the medicare, medicaid, farm subsidies. that has to be the focus of a budget negotiation. and i think conservatives on the whole would be quite pleased to trade a dollar of sequester cuts for a dollar of reforms. that deal has never actually been put on the table, and if it would just -- >> there have been deals put on the table at basically three or four different junctures, in which the white house has desperately wanted to do something. i think the problems should be dealt...

Dealt with through changes in health care and inflation. let's say you think it is a good idea. the white house has time and time again said please, work with us here. let's cut social security and the house republican caucus particularly has run away from the deal. >> i think that is not a fair reading of the recent history. the group that has been most opposed to that has been democrats. harry reid and nancy pelosi, in particular, said any change in policy is dead on arrival. so there is no chance for that kind of deal to happen. and indeed, the president himself, ignored --