Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130114:17:40:00
Republicans. republicans just had to vote for a tax increase, so they're dealing with all the internal dissent over that. there is a kind of symmetry, if you go to the last battles much the budget control act. there were spending cuts to now revenue being increased, but the reality is that nobody is really dealing with entitlement programs. the big drivers of the overall debt. the president, you know, offering an opening today. republicans would certainly like to discuss that and talk about modifying medicare. the question is how far along can they get to try to decouple that from this idea of...