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You can go after energy subsidies. can you go after farm subsidies. look, can you go after all of this stuff, but it's irresponsible to say we can't reform social security, medicare and medicaid because we all know right now those are the principal drivers that have us on a path that's not sustainable. to save those programs for future generations, we have to be adults and reform them now. >> okay. congressman joe walsh of illinois, congressman raul grijalva of arizona, thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. >> i'll stipulate that social security is not a problem in the budgetary long run...

Principal drivers that have us on a path that's not sustainable. to save those programs for future generations, we have to be adults and reform them now. >> okay. congressman joe walsh of illinois, congressman ruehl grijalva of arizona, thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. >> i'll stipulate that social security is not a problem in the budgetary long run. medicaid and medicare are. when the president and republicans agreed to keep the government open for business on friday, they made a deal to cut $40 billion. that's with a "b," dollars from this year's but. today we finally learned ho...

The baseline budget by $1 trillion. the president has set us on a path of higher spending and the budget that he laid out there, which i don't think was meant to be taken seriously, continues on the same path. if you are talking about the fiscal health of the country, you have to do something in the outyears, years ahead, to restrain the growth of entitlement spending. the president's attitude, i think, is that, i don't want anybody to pay attention to my budget after a serious document. i want them to focus on the house republicans and what they're doing to cut spending. megyn: now speaker bo...

They helped direct mubarak. but suddenly and in a way that if things turned out differently, they would have been okay. republicans are looking at the outcome and also recognize at a time like this it's good to support the president. >> we'll get back to this, but the president of course sends his 2012 budget to congress today, about two-thirds of the savings expected to be from a five-year spending freeze. other proposed cuts include pell grants, defense spending, energy assistance for the poor, water treatment plants and airport grants. joining us from the white house, jack lew. you say, sir...

Administration and the democrats in the congress did what was right. to set us on a path to providing comprehensive health care for all of our citizens and we cannot go back. we've come too far. >> i wanted to also ask you about education nation. our msnbc focus on education. you appeared with secretary of education arne duncan yesterday and spike lee and other very prominent leaders talking about the need for african-american men to go into teaching. and when you look at the statistics, it's pretty extraordinary. fewer than 2% of our teachers are african-american. 3 million teachers, only 2% ...