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Shannon: a lot of folks raising questions. thank you very much. we are getting word that president obama is planning a public push for his deficit reduction plan that included spending cuts. the president's senior strategist david axlerod and lindsey graham discussed the plan on cbs's "face the nation." >> it's obvious we can't resolve the challenge simply by cutting the budget. we have cut by $1.1 trillion. but you need new revenues. every objective person who looked at this agrees on that. the question is where is that revenue going to come from? >> no republican will vote for higher tax rat...

The simpson-bowles commission which simpson and bowles wrote a plan that included taking taxes up to 21% over 10 years with spending cuts that were really written in out line form. the challenge is the president has not put any real spending cuts on the table. when he talks about his budget, it includes $800 billion in savings from not continuing the iraq war for the next century which no one was planning to do. and he counts between $1 trillion and $2 trillion in spending cuts that have been passed into law. the spenting cuts from the budget control act. he wants to count a second time. he ha...

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Place but said they wanted to see the outcome of the election, could they lead some of the reluctant governors? >> we'll see them moving for it. there are some bumps in the road. not all of this bill -- there's a lot of moving pieces. but the main elements, the medicaid expansion, for instance, will begin to proceed because the states have real cash crisis when it comes to medicaid. so huge result of the election. if the ryan plan had been enacted, which would have likely happened if romney had won, you would have seen 40% reductions in medicaid. the poor and the elderly who depend on it reall...

An issue, and the way in which the ryan plan has resonated despite the fact that the obama people haven't really pushed it like the way that you mute think they would have pushed it as a potential negative, medicare still -- has become a substantial advantage for the democrats in all three of the swing states according to the polling data. look at florida which i think is much closer than you would have anticipated at this stage and you have to wonder whether medicare and the ryan plan has reed downed against the romney ticket there and look at wisconsin which certainly is closer than you woul...