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That's exactly what he said before he was elected president. let me ask you this question. was yesterday a speech or a plan? >> the president put out a very comprehensive plan. it was $4 trillion of debt reduction over 12 years. he put forward all the areas and categories of spending over a trillion dollars in domestic and security spending. $500 million in health, medicare, medicaid savings. he put forward an automatic back stop that would make sure that under any circumstance, no matter what congress did, whatever projections that we'll see our debt starting to fall as a percentage of our in...

Deal that nobody loves and some people hate, and a last minute breakthrough of the compromise, and the details came out more than 72 hours after the house and the senate leaders and president obama announced they had a deal. so before we jump in, let me show you what was never on the table. that's most of the federal budget. here is our pi chart there. and 56%, give or take goes for mandatory spending such as social security, medicare and medicaid. another 7% is interest on the $14 trillion debt. most everything else is considered discretionary and subject to the lawmakers' whims, but most of ...

Wanted to and now the freshmen feel closer to boehner and canter than they did before. >> the point you make is the right one. the math is all wrong on this. to go after this tiny slice of what's called discretionary spending with -- >> 12%. >> which is education, it's science, it's technology, it's energy. this is all wrong when the big things are military. $800 billion of security spending. we're wasting $100 billion in afghanistan. nobody is going after that right now. we're wasting hundreds of billions of dollars in -- in military procurements, in contracting, scandal after scandal. no one...

Am n am nimity. in taehran tens of thousands tok part in the demonstration. as we told you earlier, it's a big day for the budget. he sends it up to capitol hill. let's take a look at some of the issues here. if you look here, green is revenue. gold is spending. orange is the deficits. here is where we start out here and it's the first few years you want to worry the most about because politics and debate will containing. you see spending is up here. government revenues down there, which means the government will run more red ink. all deficits throughout the presidency pick right there. what i...

Created this tremendous political dysfunction, this polarization so that the republicans have now made poisoned the environment on revenue raising, even if you have to pay your bills. the democrats have been dema georgie i demagoging the budget. here's an administration proposing 900 million in its upcoming budget for defense and security spending, it's more than i was fighting against with the runaway defense budget during the reagan days when we had star wars and an enemy with 8,000 war heads pointed against us. >> democrats feel like the only way to protect themselves politically and show t...