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Was it medicaid? was it the ryan budget that turned a lot of people against the republican and tea party candidate? what was it? >> well, what it was, is kathy hochul, gifted public ser venlt, incredible person with a passion to go to congress to represent working families. the ryan budget played right into her hands in that they tried to pass a budget in the middle of this campaign that took health care away from senior citizens. kathy hochul jumped on that immediately, attacked it. her opponent embraced the ryan proposal. hochul chastised her, criticized her and said she would never do that ...

Ultimately, that this is formula how you deal with this. anybody who really believes it will be a substantive solution to the budget problem before the election is not thinking about what happens in washington. this is all politics and nobody wants to touch the really tough stuff, joe, you know, you've been there. it won't get touched until they see how the congress lays out. one of the scenarios is a democratic house and republican senate in the next congress and maybe republican or democratic president. i think the president will get re-elected. but anything can happen, i think they will all...

For having me. but, you know, we seem to forget that when we did the america -- the affordable care act, we did a $500 million fix on medicare. and we extended the life of medicare by eight years. and we got criticized for it in the elections last year. you may recall. the republicans used that $500 million cut against us saying that we were cutting medicare and we lost seniors by 21 votes. 21 points. so i would say we have demonstrated that we do consider medicare to be important and something we ought to be dealing with. now, we're dealing with four different proposals in this talks. one of ...

Want taxes raised on the wealthy and loopholes closed on the oil companies and other people who have been feeding off the trough. i think the president is right. but i think he does have to sit down with the republican leadership and put together some substantial cuts in our entitlement program. not the ryan proposal, the ryan proposal, nobody is in favor of. in fact, i think there are republican congressmen who voted for it, andrea, who are having terrible buyer's remorse as the polls roll out, as congressman ryan gets battered in a town meeting in his own district. i think they're jumping of...

Unfortunately the same debate we had with herbert hoover, that we see a budget that will be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor middle class to the rich. >> you're talking about the ryan proposal. >> yeah. it is going to cost us between 1.7 and 2.2 million jobs. >> it is a given you guys would be against the ryan proposal. what is not so self-evident is that you would have a problem with what the president doing. yeah, but the news out of the meeting wasn't the problem we had with the president. the news out of meeting was the problem we had with the budget. i know that people would l...