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>> yeah. i mean, i think that republicans on capitol hill this week, i was up there a lot, they do, i think -- they were heartened by the idea that the president was willing to make cuts to social security. and just to stephen's point, there are a bunch of concessions in the budget. you know, there's the social security cuts. the president undid a lot of the sequester cuts to defense. and he's interested in doing corporate tax reform, which is something the republicans want. yes, maybe it doesn't go far enough in terms of reforming medicare, but he has stepped forward on a number of things. >>...

Positivety of what he did put on the table. >> that's all fair, gloria. it's no news both sides in the political spectrum know how to demagogue an issue. >> right. >> whether or not this particular budget is a real and sincere move toward deficit deduction seems to be undercut by $1.2 trillion in sequester cuts annie points out, president obama would like to repeal those cuts. his $1.8 trillion would be offset by him cutting back the sequester cuts. doesn't seem like anything sincere as a bargain for taxes. >> annie pointed out, minus chance -- minus infinity as john berman pointed out, this b...

Start a tax reform refopolicy t will take years once they start it. i think there will be movings to replace the sequester cuts. some are bad. some prevents medicare patients with cancer from getting treatment. i think there might be movement there. but i don't think you'll see a bigger repeal because it's hard to find that much money. >> gloria, you know -- go ahead. >> all of this has to be seen in the context of everything else that's going on that we spoke about earlier. so, you have immigration reform. if some kind of deal can be cut with some -- you know, a group of republicans, a group ...

Defend himself. >> neil: he is watching? >> ben comes out here all the time and tells him to raise taxes but it's so much easier to raise taxes. if you start by raising taxes, will you never do any of the cuts. the only cuts that we had, if you think about it, is very marginal sequester cuts. >> neil: that is off the growth. we have never in this country had an experience where we have cut stuff first and then raise taxes. it's always raise taxes and maybe we might if i had well the potential growth. >> neil: what would you say? >> we should get back to the premise of the segment which is abou...

On the republican side that, hey, he hasn't taken a step forward, it's not a huge step forward, i know, butt it's a step forward. >> nancy, the last word on the budget. >> i mean, i think that republicans on capitol hill this week, i was up there a lot, they do, i think -- they were heartened by the idea that the president was willing to make cuts to social security. and just to stephen's point, there are a bunch of concessions in the budget. you know, there's the social security cuts. the president undid a lot of the sequester cuts to defense. and he's interested in doing corporate tax reform...