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to be severe. welcome to "your money." i'm ali velshi. august 2nd is the day the treasury department says it will no longer be able to pay all of our nation's bills. and the united states will default on its debt. republicans are going to vote on their own plan this week, complete with spending cuts. but president obama says he won't support deep cuts without increases in taxes. >> if you're trying to get to $2.4 trillion without any revenue, then you are effectively gutting a whole bunch of domestic spending that is going to be too burdensome and is not going to be something that i ...

Make the math work for reporters. are they selling it well? >> i don't think so that's true in the eye of the beholder but i don't think anyone finds this stuff persuasive. but they are doing the best they can. they will have friendly help in the media about this and the rest. i was reading the transcript with gene sperling and it sounded like someone arguing with a flight attendant who didn't want to tell you that the plane is taking off. a very weird conversation. >> bret: up next, radical islamic attacks on americans and what the american is saying. or not saying. about them. for more on th...

Make the math work for reporters. are they selling it well? >> i don't think so that's true in the eye of the beholder but i don't think anyone finds this stuff persuasive. but they are doing the best they can. they will have friendly help in the media about this and the rest. i was reading the transcript with gene sperling and it sounded like someone arguing with a flight attendant who didn't want to tell you that the plane is taking off. a very weird conversation. >> bret: up next, radical islamic attacks on americans and what the american is saying. or not saying. about them. for more on th...

Disapprove the gop tax plan as it currently stands. perhaps more damaging, 16% of the voters say they believe this tax plan will reduce their taxes and 65% say only the wealthy will benefit from the plan. would plan. would you say to that? >> at some length and surprise they are worth when you consider the hysteria coming from the left. vote, and in 1886 reagan tax bill had only an 18% favorability that they had passed. the difficulty for many of us on the ways and means committee as we've been grinding out making the math work, the left has been campaigning against a serial make-believe numbe...

Are in part, cheerleaders and they're-- >> i'm trying get you embarrassed. >> you get me embarrassed all the time, neil, you know this stuff so well that i get caught up in-- >> hardly. hardly. let me ask you, this is a victory that republicans sorely needed and you mentioned a good point at the outset how this could improve their prospects in the midterms, but not if they're delayed. i think that people forget that. >> that's true, if you delay the tax cuts, you delay the recovery. in fact, you'll make the delay worse because everyone will postpone income until 2019. neil: and the senate must...