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Out because of the social security program. even when we talk about the tax break for the middle class and the working class, they insist that we do it for the billionaires. more and more americans are seeing it's not the country and it's not the fiscal significance and not helping americans out who need it most and through no fault of their own, it's really the ideology and they are not going home until they do these things politically no matter what they think. >> earlier this week, we discussed that bill with jack kingston who likes the idea of drug testing people before they can claim unem...

Grecian formula to come up with a way to pay these senators (laughter) >> and that's a personal-- and at any rate, the math is not there and toby is right, and there's no way that you can let somebody work for 30 years and pay them for the rest of their life when they're living to be 85. the math is not there. they have to stop it there. congress notably who set the rules needs to get on the social security program, and needs to get their kid out of cushy private schools and kquit running away with everybody's money. >> brenda: gary b, what do you think? >> take the greatest hits from everyone...

Was concerned. i wasn't willing to go down that road. jon: senator kirk, we saw you nodding in agreement with what your fellow senator had to say. he says let's fix the big problems right now. congress doesn't seem to be able to come to agreement on the little problems? >> that's right. i think this legislation would have made it worse. this is a chart showing the hit that would be taken by social security contributions. seniors would be left out by $250 billion of tax revenue needed to support the social security program. we would have paid for this part not until 2018 with seniors basically ...

assessing the presidential field with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. and america's cities, our first installment today with los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. >> that's why we're here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal -- soon. that is not breaking news to panel members who have been spinning their wheels for nearly three months....

Recognizing that the best thing that you can do for medicare is make it responsible for being competitive with the kinds of plans that are offered in the private sector. >> governor, you've been in politics, out of politics a little bit, but still in politics for a very long time and very successful. >> 100 years. >> it's not that long. you know the politics of this. you mentioned entitlement reform. you mentioned medicare. these are things that democrats have fought tooth and nail and i would say after the 2004 election, with george w. bush and social security, have fought successfully. how, ...