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In the beltway right now, all they ever talk about is the deficit. that's true for a long time. so is -- part of the reason democrats don't get kridt for having passed health care reform, they haven't sold it to the beltway chattering class as antideficit policy making? >> the deficit is an important issue. why would anybody care about the deficit as a republican? go look for the deficit. it's no reason we need to concede that as i recall the last time the budge was in surplus was under a democratic president. if you start from the vantage point up, how do we rebuild the middle class and went ...

Election in november, if the election is about the disappearance of the middle class and the challenges of the middle class, what does that mean the specific issues are that these candidates will be running ads on and competing on right down to the wire in november? >> well, two things that come to mind are rising health care costs and education, or what the middle class says are the two things that matter most to them, that they see. then, how do we become more competitive? they're completely into that. they're not -- it's not like that -- but what they want is, they want somebody to come up ...

Of who was looking out for the middle class, who was looking out for the american dream of getting ahead by working hard, the american treme that you can get a college education if you are smart enough and you work hard enough. if big national elections in america turned on isues like that, this dumb student loan issue would be issue a. it's not. at least it's not yet, but james carville, the political strategist who got bill clinton elected president, has a plan, and these figure prominently in the plan. james carville joins us for the interview right here next. introd

Is a good issue. a good political issue. i think it will resonate with people and i think they'll understand it. i really do. >> one of the things you write about in the new book is this idea that democrats have to take themselves -- take the issue of programs like social security and medicare very, very seriously. they need to be seen as uncompromising defenders of the programs that the middle class defend depends on. how did we end up, democrats willing to question those programs. some democrats are willing to trade away security on those programs? >> because we make -- i think we make a fun...

Be a good americans and we're going to cut the social security you paid into so we can pay for the garbage we did, and people say we don't want to do that. then the conclusion is they're selfish, no, they're just not stupid. they'll pay for social security if it's to strengthen social security for their retirement. they won't pay for mistakes washington made in the past. > the biggest problem we have in our country is the deficit. so if you look at that, and you say, let's cut entitlements. because that's the biggest problem. if you say the biggest problem we have in the country is the middle ...