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Conversation. but what we shouldn't do is to hold the nation hostage because a small group of people. i want to make one point. i think it's very, very important to note. if the shutdown in '95 -- because this is underlying. let's be clear the issue here. shutdown in '95 was $270 billion in a cut to medicare. $270 billion in a tax cut for the wealthy. fast forward 2013. it is about the affordable care act and shutting the government down. what this is all about underlying everything -- and this is really fundamental in terms of the republican party -- it is roll back social insurance that bene...

Benefits, the $100 k that goes to the family for travel and everything, they knew they were kissing good-bye to that and they did it. i don't get that part. >> i don't get, really, any of it, when they talk about that there's been no compromise. because this clean cr they keep talking about is sequester-level cuts. and so, i feel like they don't know anything they've cut. and they haven't paid attention. and you have a whole bunch of people who try to fool the american people by saying, you know, the president hasn't compromised at all, when the cr they want to pass is practically as austere a...

Shutdown and debt be debt ceiling. it just happens they align unfortunately. in my view we ought to pass the debt ceiling and move on. the shutdown i don't like. >> we did ask him for his view. that's why he's here. >> just a little reality check on that. >> but do the negotiation around the budget. that's where you negotiate these kinds of things. >> the senate hasn't -- i know you haven't been here for all that long, but the senate until this year had gone many years without doing a budget. >> right. >> you have a bill that says if the senate doesn't introduce a budget, senators don't get pa...

Down with a senate minority leader a month ago. he always wanted entitlement reform and you look at paul ryan's op-ed in the "wall street journal" tomorrow morning that just posted online. he's asking for entitle reform with chain cpi. that's what republican leadership has always been moving toward, entitle reform and budget talks whereas the tea party reform has been focused on became care. >> joining me now is a democrat from michigan. i am seeing the conversation turn from the discretionary budget, funding levels at sequester levels, et cetera, somehow the conversation is moving to entitlea...

Leader a month ago. he always wanted entitlement reform and you look at paul ryan's op-ed in the "wall street journal" tomorrow morning that just posted online. he's asking for entitle reform with chain cpi. that's what republican leadership has always been moving toward, entitle reform and budget talks whereas the tea party reform has been focused on became care. >> joining me now is a democrat from michigan. i am seeing the conversation turn from the discretionary budget, funding levels at sequester levels, et cetera, somehow the conversation is moving to entitlement reform and kbugt cuts. >...