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Send up the transcripts of the morning shows and evening shows, we have had the repeaters all week, panic, big scoops of sequester panic ripple. and the "washington post" says they check out claims and it's not true, there's layoffs in west virginia already. >> neil: obviously enough self-respecting press corps is going to start exploring the other ones, and then start saying, wait a minute. right? >> right. and i think part of the problem with this whole thing is, this is one of those things where they do look like they have been instructed to go out and build panic, and they're very welling ...

Solving this debt crisis, you can't do it with revenue. he wants to even the score of the so-called wealthy and you can't raise enough taxes to put a dent in this debt and he refused to reform entitlement. i'm incredulous that people in america are permitting this. it's never going to be reversible if we don't stop this and i can't believe he's not for simpson-bowles, he's he not for anything to do with-- >> lanny, as a liberal democrat, are you-- and this is a moral issue, are you going to demand that this president how that he's got a spending increase, is he going to have to deal with his d...

About what they are doing here. >> i think the reason simon doesn't like it is because it gives the republicans leverage to force the president to deal with the debt. the president has as much chance of succeeding as you have of getting john bolton to cry on your show. megyn: i think i can do it. a challenge? >> i bet you can. in the last 27 years, every significant debt reduction bill that passed starting with graham rosen has been linked to a debt limit increase. this is the only tool in washington that forces both sides to do something about the debt and spendersing. so republicans aren't g...

College students now get some kind of pell grant at least in 2009 and 2010 and it cost 36 billion dollars that year this program started to help the poor it has become a vast entitlement now for -- >> i think is right. a lot of our viewers think of pell grant as probably something for under privileged kids. but it has become this huge middle class entitlement, similar to the stimulus spending blowout that collin was referring to. the obama spending binge ran up some of these costs so high that any pull-back from that is seen as some kind of draconian cuts. he has doubled it. >> this is the pro...

Up some of these costs so high that any pull-back from that is seen as some kind of draconian cuts. he has doubled it. >> this is the problem with the beltway definition of cut. it is not a cut, it is just a slower level of spending increase that they define as a cut. >> if this is money thrown out to everyone, it doesn't make college more affordable, because colleges over time are very efficient at pocketing that extra money that comes from the federal government, tuition rises accordingly. >> as collin pointed out performance levels are flat, the tea party is asking why are we spending more ...