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Street journal" writing about sim sons bowles and i'm hearing more and more on both sides of the aisle the need to embrace simpson-bowles and revive it. is the president prepared to do that either in the speech this week or before the end of the term? >> the president laid out a framework which is very similar to simpson-bowles. the problem with getting simpson-bowles moving forward is that the republicans signed a pledge committing that they wouldn't add a single penny of revenue. there isn't an economist that we know on any side of the political spectrum that thinks that we can bring our hou...

Citizens ought to pay more for their medicare benefits. i think it's ridiculous we subsidize medicare for wealthy people. >> why not just endorse simps simpson-bowl simpson-bowles? a bipartisan agreement including a number of republican senators -- >> you may recall i was the guy on the super committee that put together a framework that was parallel and many ways consistent with simpson-bowles. i got no cooperation from the other side. >> senator pat toomey, thank you very much. david walker, thank you as well. our next guest was once viewed as a rising star on the democratic party, speaking a...

which appears to hope that syria's president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth the size of libya, but with three times as many people. perhaps for this reason the syrian rebels ha...

a witness claims to have seen the actual shooting. let's go "outfront." well, good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight superfailed take two. the house of representatives passes paul ryan's 2013 budget plan. >> i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. >> the problem is we already know how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it's dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president's budget, it's a no-go too. according t...

We ought to go ahead and make sure that for people in their 20s and 30s there will be social security. there's a series of ideas that were laid out in the simps simpson/bowls plan. we need to get their social security guaranteed. i think there's a way we can find common ground but recognize everything has been taos to be table. we have to deal with defense and discretionary spending. we have the makings of a grand bargain. if we can start with that bipartisan basis, i believe we'll get it done and surprise the pundits. >> how much would you proposal cutting out of the defense budget? >> we hav...