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Major question. and in the speech i gave at duke university last night, i suggested very strongly that the president has a remarkable opportunity to provide national unity and national strength by inviting republicans around the table and spending a lot of time with them. maybe some democrats likewise. in other words, it's not just schmoozing of these people. it's substantive conversation again and again. this is a very different nature than the president has exercised thus far. but i think tremendously important. because i believe the president did offer some avenues last night. h ta he talke...

Deciding to save general motors and the auto he industry. >> chris: wait, i think, without speaking for him i think he is speaking about things like solyndra. >> in the case of solyndra, it is citing that the lead investor was an obama supporter. the second investor was a mccain supporter. so the argument that we should go back to the stimulus from three years ago and have an argument about each and every line in the stimulus rather than ask starting from right now what does the economy need. does it need giant tax cuts for high income people and crushing of social security and medicare or do ...

You telling knee president obama endorsed the boles simpson commission? >> the central idea was a bald plan that you would have three dollars of cuts for every one dollar of new revenue. the reason that congressman ryan and republicans. congressman ryan voted against the boles simpson plan and mitt romney raised his hand when they asked him would you accept a deal for $10 of spending cuts for every one dollar of revenue. mitt romney said absolutely not because they had any new revenue they would not support it. the president's budget which is before the congressional budget office and is not i...

Term. that is one of the biggest congress breaks he made. the congressional budget office did look at the president's budget and it has $400 billion of deficit reduction over years.aturten it absolutely. that is quoted as cbo. $1.5 million in net spending increases. [ overlapping speakers ] for $400 billion of deficit reduction. doesn't even come close to fixing the problem. more to the point, chris, the president has had four years to deal with this. $4 trillion deficits. four times he decided to do nothing about the debt crisis. the reason i didn't vote for bowles simpson is it didn't deal w...

Term. that is one of the biggest congress breaks he made. the congressional budget office did look at the president's budget and it has $400 billion of deficit reduction over years.aturten it absolutely. that is quoted as cbo. $1.5 million in net spending increases. [ overlapping speakers ] for $400 billion of deficit reduction. doesn't even come close to fixing the problem. more to the point, chris, the president has had four years to deal with this. $4 trillion deficits. four times he decided to do nothing about the debt crisis. the reason i didn't vote for bowles simpson is it didn't deal w...