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Our nation, a son or a daughter, a father or mother, a husband or wife. a brother or a sister. everyone a patriot. every single one of these american families deserves the everlasting gratitude and support of our entire nation. today after two major ground wars, our armed forces have drawn down. that is natural and it is necessary. after reckless budget cuts of sequeste sequester, we need to keep improve the training and modernizing of our forces. let me take this opportunity while i still have it to appeal to our friends from congress that are here. we cannot go back to

About. >> and this is the part, let's -- this is a quote from harry reid, so the deal was struck on wednesday, it went to effect and now on the budget talks and this is harry reid setting the stage talking about, would you give ground on, like, social security, talking about, like, this chain cpi for social security, would you give ground on that, and in exchange for getting rid of the sequester? he said, that's no trade. we're not going to affect entitlement so we can decrease defense spending. if revenue ends up being off the table, and you're going start getting resistance from harry reid o...

Takes shape here. chris coun chris kuntz joins us from wilmington. thank you for being on the show. we were just getting into this in the last segment, if the goal here for democrats, if the goal is to address the sequester, to get that turned off or get a big part of that turned off at least and the sort of contours of these discussions as reported are sort of -- they're small in scope, maybe not talking about revenue like we were before, not talking about the concessions that president obama was talking about before, how are you going to find the money to actually get the sequester turned of...

Have just enough time to put in place a new budget that replaces the sequester, so that really is the goal. this is quite different than the not so super super committee you were talking about. we don't have the expedited path to the floor, the special legislative way of taking whatever deal we work out and getting it right to the floor without a filibuster, which the super committee had. so the scope of our total goal is a little bit more constrained. the other thing that i think, steve, makes it more likely we're going to get to some deal is that the very real pain of sequeste sequester, the...

Entitlement reform. that's the bottom line. i take the same oath of office as the president of the united states. i've got the same responsibilities as the president of the united states. and i think that's for both of us to do what's in the best interest of our country. >> and so that set the stage for the super committee. remember that? the last second deal to avoid a default in 2011, called for, a special bipartisan committee to come up with a blueprint to strike the deal that obama and boehner couldn't strike and to end the cycle of crisis governing. but guess what? republicans were just a...