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Puts his country before everything else. and so he and i stand shoulder to shoulder with the same goal and e desire and that is to unite this party and take the fight to the president, to the senate and the american people. i really do believe it is time for a fresh start. that was the whole genesis of my campaign. we need to have a lot more family discussion because we need to find somebody that our whole body can unite behind and do what we were elected to do. so i was absolutely stunned, shocked and surprised that this happened. but our conference is going to have to do a lot of deep soul s...

A lot of them emerging from school with big debt. they are struggling in this economy. no conversations about that. governors on the stage have slashed higher education budgets in their states, and that causes more tuition increases to fall on students and parents. there's a little bit of a gap in reality versus aspiration. i think it's one thing to talk about things. i think what they do about things is very different. i would agree with jonathan that, if you predicate everything on unrealistic economic growth, but also you heard everybody on stage basically doubling down on increasing the si...

Cost that is would add. >> well, i think the point we're missing here is that we're -- christian used which is the fix. because remember, if there's 20 million union members who woke up one day and even the president of one of the largest unions came out and said by the way, the math doesn't work and our expenses and cost would go up and we would get less care. when he caves in on them, hes to have a fix. guess what, brenda, who else wants a fix? there are other guys and the other people and all of a sudden a $200 million fix because a $500 billion fix and all of a sudden the fixes become -- i...

>> that's basically what bill clinton was saying, the math doesn't work. ken conrad can do that every day and other democrats are well versed in that, and the republicans, i get the feeling they realize that argument is working. >> i think that's right. one of the arguments about mitt romney, the math doesn't add up is because they weren't saying what was in the math. that was a big problem for the republicans throughout the campaign. we are now past that point. we're going to have to say it. mitt romney's argument was we'll tell you once we're elected what this plan looks like. now what you'r...

But that presents some very difficult challenges in terms of the so-called tax expenditures, because if you don't go up on the top rate, you have to go deeper into tax expenditures. that means you start affecting very popular things like home mortgage deduction, the health care deduction. >> that's basically what bill clinton was saying, the math doesn't work. ken conrad can do that every day and other democrats are well versed in that, and the republicans, i get the feeling they realize that argument is working. >> i think that's right. one of the arguments about mitt romney, the math doesn't...