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All line in the sand. then he can be the compromiser from there, if you will, go to the right of nancy pelosi on some of these issues. so no. i mean, there is a split there. and i think that there's a reality that the politics of this is dangerous for democrats. if they mess around too much, the interest groups that care about medicare and social security the most that would spend the most money, super pacs, all of that business. they've kept quiet. they've given the president running room on this stuff. if he moves too much, then you could see, you know, all of the angst you see on the republ...

Due to an advanced age are no longer suited to the exercise of ministry." much more on that coming up in just a moment. for now, we go down to d.c., chief white house correspondent for "politico," mr. mike allen. good morning, mike. you guys are taking a look at the new voices in the effort to reform america's gun laws. there's also a new ad from gabby giffords and mark kelly's super pac which will air tomorrow night during the state of the union. let's watch it. >> we have a problem where we shop, where we pray, where our children go to school. but there are solutions we can agree on, even gu...

The way through. but at the end of the day, you just have to look at a budget pie chart. the money is on the entitlements side, that we've got an aging society. we've got a lot of problems in terms of health care costs. if you don't deal with those things, there's not enough discretionary spending to ever balance the budget. you have to recognize the problem before you can solve it. in this case, i think she's just not seeing it. >> hey, chuck, is nancy pelosi's position on entitlements is the position of the democratic party and the house certainly. is that the position of the senate and the ...

Focused on deficits, spending and how to head off the looming sequestration cuts poised to kick in early next month. in separate interviews on sunday, house minority leader nancy pelosi and majority leader eric cantor laid out the economic dividing lines. >> what we need is growth. we need growth with jobs. and if you have spending cuts, education of our children and other investments like the national institutes of health where you are hindering growth, you're not going to reduce the deficit. so it is almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem. we have a budget deficit problem ...

Weren't they? all right. >> well, i thought the way chris christie dealt with the letterman issue was troubling. because i felt like he felt like he had to do it. i know for a fact that all those jokes that david letterman cracked and others were not funny to him. and he gets daily tweets that are really, really mean. and i guess this was the only way to deal with it, but i think it's a sign of a bigger problem that we really ought to be able to have a conversation about weight that is serious and not funny. at all. because it's a huge health crisis. >> we have hit extremely fit politicians no...