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A long drawn out debate of whether to reform the government. but it is irresponsible to raise the debt ceiling and the spending caps. we went exactly the wrong direction and i have been traveling the country and i have not met a republican yet who wants to raise the debt ceiling and the spending at the same time. >> and 24 million people saw the last republican debate on cnn and 25 million saw the first republican debate, and the 21 million who saw the viral tape is not the same. >> we are still going. >> and maybe after this interview more people will take a closer look at that as well. >> ye...

Issue. what was the argument that it would make season to get this done? reporter: john mccain wanted more money for the mitt. avoiding a debt crisis. the budget agreement is through two years and will ray the debt ceiling through march 2017. it will rate the spending caps by 80 bi. it august of some long-term entitlement reforms to the social security disability program. president obama said this agreement i a reminder that washington can still choose to help rather than hinder america' progress and he look forward to signing it into law as soon as it reaches his desk. martha: it's hard to ma...

Colleagues. >> republicans released that lousy at political battles? the four years the president would shed the government down, blame us and we would collapse because we fought for internet tax freedom? holy cow. if we had that bad this why we doing it? >> reporter: this is what the two year budget plan will do, lift the debt ceiling for march of 2017, the spending caps by $80 billion split between defense and domestic priorities, 20% cut to social security benefits and limit the premium spike to medicare recipients lose the senate majority leader acknowledged the agreement isn't perfect but...

$80 billion more in spending. they busted the spending caps. it's a cheap way of having to make a difficult decision. here we are. >> this is just to say we're not going to do much on anything until the next demonstration. >> the debt keeps going up. they don't touch entitlement reform. >> these actually were small adjustments compared to an $18 trillion economy. what they're saying is let's put aside big issues, this is the end of the administration. we'll have a new president and we'll talk about new things

Fateit accompli, doesn't it? >> it does and you'll recall, when john boehner stepped down i said the consequence is that boehner has cut a deal with nancy pelosi to raise the debt ceiling and to fund all of obama's big-government priorities for the next two years. some of the media blasted me and said you don't know that. and i know exactly what it meant. you look at what happened in the house of representatives. every single democrat in the house voted for this, because it is a blank credit card for barack obama. only a handful of republicans voted for it. and now mitch mcconnell, who is alle...