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This wasn't going to work. the structure, the payment structure that nina described was never actually going to be seen. you weren't going to be able to see it implemented. but that, liberals thought the government could come in and pick up the slack and then it becomes another add-on to medicare. it could be, some people call it medicare part "b." conservatives and others thought this is unworkable. we will never be able to finance it that way. so let's not make the attempt. most important thing to understand about all of this, this latest study that hhs did that found this was unworkable was...

>> sure. and let's not kid ourselves, they're not going to pass this plan. they're going to move off of it. this is a starting point of the negotiations. go back to august when it was just the president and house speaker boehner. you got the sense that obama desperately wanted the house speaker to take that grand bargain which included raising eligibility age of medicare, which included reforming payment structure of social security in part because we needed a vehicle to get the debt ceiling raised. nowadays when you're looking at the supercommittee and its legislations there's a different ton...

into the pier. eventually punching a giant hole into the hull. you see guys trying to save it. they are okay. you are in the cnn newsroom this saturday. i'm in for don lemon. good to see you. we are following a massive storm stalled off the coast of new orleans. this ireport sent to us by andrew caylee from a suburb of new orleans. doesn't look too bad now. already power has been knocked out to about 30,000 people in louisiana. the governors of louisiana and mississippi have drayeclared sts of emergency for areas, parishes are under mandatory evacuation orders because of the threat...

opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america's finances for a decade, for 15 years or 20 years. if we're willing to seize the moment. what that would require would be some shared sacrifice and a balanced approach that says we're going to make significant cuts in domestic spending. and i have already said i'm willing to take down domestic spending to the lowest percentage of our overall economy since dwight eisenhower. it also requires cuts in defense spending. and i've said that in addition to the $400 billion that we've already cut from defense spending we'...

Mattis arguing that the u.s. should be more conciliatory and prop up the alliance. you have the mid-level bureaucrats who are really the place where the actual diplomacy work gets done and they just don't know who to listen to. they don't know if the information they are getting is correct and promises will be followed through on. that's a significant problem in terms of getting the nitty-gritty work of diplomacy done. >> our nation turns their lonely eyes to you. here's what i mean. you get the task of explaining finally what the president is talking about with the balance of payments to nato...