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>> there he is. the president with the head of the office of management of -- the office of management and budget walking back into the oval office from the rose garden. the president making his proposals public now. and there's a detailed budget that the white house is releasing. hundreds if not thousands of pages going through point by point by point all domestic, all national security, all social security medicare, all spending for the fiscal year 2014 budget. once again, that fiscal year begins october 1st of this year. white house correspondent jessica yellin is there. jessica, so the hou...

>> well, i thought it very intriguing in that the budget really lays out kind of a shocking attack on seniors, if you will. we haven't seen all the detail yet, we'll look at it, but i'll tell you when you're going after seniors the way he's already done on obama care, taken $700 billion out of medicare to put into obama care and now coming back at seniors again, i think you're crossing that line very quickly here in terms of denying access to seniors for health care in districts like mine certainly and around the country. i think he's going to have a lot of pushback from some of the major seni...

Budget that balances. we've said here's how you fundamentally restructure medicaid, medicare. we republicans have done things to move to the middle to get to common ground that have not been entirely popular. we have not seen resipry cal moves. >> is there ryan playing fast and loose with the truth again much as he did with his marathon time, ezra? >> that is a particular definition of the middle. it would be a bit like democrats saying here's -- let me make a call here. a quick defense of the status quo a little bit. one of the conceits, particularly of the ryan budget but other budgets that ...

Product, conservative wish list. turned medicare into a voucher program and make medicaid a block program. the murray budget by contrast is a much more cautious proposal. one to one ratio of spending cuts and new tax revenue. with the coverage focusing on these plans, there is a third proposal, one that constitutes a much stronger liberal weight to the unbending conservatism of the ryan budget. that is the budget propose bid the congressional progressive caucus which would add $2 trillion in new spending to create jobs and pay for it by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. the entire...

Medicare this way. we are talking in terms of medicare, talking about a program that even a majority of tea partiers do not want touched. that is if a are more notion than the idea that somehow we are going to go back to traditional that we had in this country for the vast majority. >> let me interject. not just traditional tax base. there is a bunch of new taxes. carbon tax and financial transaction tax. >> we are never going to get close to the marginal tax rates we had 30 years ago. the question as to whether or not these budgets are fantastical is also, i think, look, we have the sequester...