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The center on budget and policy, robert greenstein and columnist for the nation magazine. thank you for joining me tonight. george stephanopoulos did an interview with the speaker that will air tomorrow morning. this clip was just posted. >> there is no daylight between the tea party and me. >> none? >> none. they want us to deal with this crushing debt that will crush the future for our kids and grandkids. there is no deal out there. >> there seems to be some daylight between the speaker, maybe about $40 billion of daylight between them. are you sure they want to cut spending? >> the speaker ...

compromise agreement yet. president obama just finished a negotiating session with republicans at the white house. afterward, the president came to the briefing room and gave an update on the negotiations. >> we just had a productive meeting with speaker dinner as well as majority leader read. we discussed the impasse that we are currently at. i thought the meetings were frank and constructive. what they did was a narrow the issues and clarify the issues that are still outstanding. i remain confident that if we are serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a...

shutdown of the federal government, and there is no compromise agreement yet. president obama just finished a negotiating session with republicans at the white house. afterward, the president came to the briefing room and gave an update on the negotiations. >> we just had a productive meeting with speaker dinner as well as majority leader read. we discussed the impasse that we are currently at. i thought the meetings were frank and constructive. what they did was a narrow the issues and clarify the issues that are still outstanding. i remain confident that if we are serious about get...

dwropt to do it, but to me, i don't know if he doesn't get it or what it is, but of course you're in politics. they fight hard. do they inject politics? of course they do, but if you keep saying i want to look toward the future, so just give them whatever they want, they keep winning. politics is about policy ultimately. well, every one of these cuts is real. they're billions in cuts that wind up affecting you. look, i'm on his side, i want him to do better, but as he keeps constantly giving in and being proud of it is frustrating. you're going to see the rpg in a second, they're the...

That you depend on. aren't you playing into the democrats hand? >> we're giving them a political weapon to go against us. they'll have to lie and demagogue to make that a political weapon. the president has punted. we won't follow suit. we'll give our political adversaries things to use against us in the next election and shame on them if they do that. >> joining me now is robert greenstein. thank you for joining us tonight. >> happy to be here. >> you are always my guide to fairness in any budget plan. looking at what we know as of this time about what congressman ryan is proposing, how would...