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Carney when asked of him, what's going to happen with the cuts to the military? listen. >> we have a situation where defense cuts that the president believes are much too deep, that republicans and democrats believe are much too deep, as well as nondefense cuts. republicans would allow those to go into place rather than ask millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit more. that's unacceptable as far as this president is concerned. >> brian: because you don't want to ask rich people to pay more. >> they've always wanted more tax increases. in his own budget, people don't realize this, the...

Favors. it's a balanced approach. we have the discretionary spending cuts we have already put in place. we have to have nondefense cuts, defense cuts, we are going to have to look at entitlement programs. we have to reduce our healthcare costs. we are going to need additional revenue. when we are talking about revenue, we have to raise money it makes sense for us to start by asking the wealthyest among us to pay more before we start asking seniors for example to pay a lot more for mare medicare. this is the same presentation i made to speaker boehner back in august. it is the same balanced app...

trying to present a front agreement on moving forward and a common response there. but at the same time, not a lot of specifics showing that there is still some daylight between the two. a jovial atmosphere. it's certainly how do you sort of not have a smile on your face when this is the scenery around you but also touching on serious subjects here as well. >> brianna keilar, thank you very much. please stand by. also dan lothian stand by. we have to get to business for our viewers here in the united states. they expect us to deliver a full newscast and catch them up on news. we're g...

If they're so into cutting the deficit and they think spend issing the problem, show it off. let's see what you got. they don't want to do it. >> what i don't understand about this is why if you believe that ultimately they're going to have to cave, why don't we just let them cave? why do we need to create all of these other sort of -- as i said wack-a-do arrangements so this can happen? >> it's all leverage, right? if the sequester, that deal is not great for the republicans or that battle is not great for them because that disproportionately hurts republican industries, which is to say the d...