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Says 88% of the budget we're not going to touch, reform or fix, and we're still going to solve our problems is an absolute falsehood. the fact is, you can't have medicare out of the equation, you can't have medicaid out of the equation, and we can't borrow the money, $2.6 trillion that we've stolen from social security and the international financial market without making social security sustainable. >> well, let me get on that point -- >> to lead on this -- let me finish my point, david. to lead on this issue and to create a false predicate that says we can solve our problems without addressi...

Constructive talks but the two sides are very far apart and you heard in that sound bite there's the president was talking about pain. there's going to be a lot of pain felt on the democratic side if they go through with these social security, these adjustments to social xushly. loathed to call it anything more than that. certainly not a restructuring. you mention the fact they're talking about adjusting possibly, at least reportedly, the cost of living adjustments. also talking about changing the retirement age and social security. the white house says none of this should be any surprise, at ...