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But we'll see how it goes forward at this 6:00 p.m. meeting. >> that meeting will be very telling tonight, but when we talk about budget deals between the obama white house and congressional republicans, i think back to the summer of 2011, obama walking up to the edge of the grand compromise and then it just completely fell apart. the basic terms, maybe the democratic base wouldn't like entitlement cuts, maybe the tea party base wouldn't like more spending. how sellable do you think this is? >> we'll really see after these two meetings later this evening. house republicans will be meeting, as ...

I do not believe the economy will be able to grow when the debt is twice what it has been historically. that's really throwing sand in the gears of the economy. what you brought up, we have a whole lot of regulatory pieces of the economy which if we were smarter about how to regulate, if we went through, got rid of a lot of outdated regulation, reformed those, thought from the cost benefit analysis, what is worth doing and what's not, i think we could promote growth and i think the big picture is there is a growth strategy out there to be had to bring politics into it. i think those on the lef...

Decisions that he makes. >> it's a testament that general dunford is somebody who doesn't just talk the talk but walks the walk. >> reporter: his approach could help the white house as it braces for a series of major policy decisions, including sequestration cuts to military spending and ambitions in russia and how to combat the spread of extremist groups from around the world. today, john kerry became the first u.s. secretary of state to visit somalia, hoping to send a strong signal to the al shabaab terror group. >> my brief visit confirm what is diplomats have been telling me. the people he...

Does tha by following a bipartisan principle we saw in the budget deal a few years, which increased spending on key investments for the middle class while reducing spending in the long run on entitlement programs through smart changes. we think we ought to take that bipartisan example and build on that. and create a new deal based on the precedent before. >> let me ask you specifically about sequestration, the president wants to end sequestration cuts americans are now familiar with because of the hassle we witnessed in washington with the wrangling over the last couple of years. the president...

Well. >> this in my view is the highest responsibility of the president of the united states, which is to maintain the safety of the american people. and i will not cut our military budget by $1 trillion, which is the combination of the budget cuts that the president has as well as a sequestration cuts. that in my view is making our future less certain and less secure. >> i think governor romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. b...