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Something you can't do through this process, because it is nondiscretionary spending. do you believe that is a reasonable, historically sort of feasible proposition? >> yeah. i mean, i would tell you this. no one wants to see the debt ceiling breached. every major spending reduction legislation of the last 30 years has been in conjunction with the debt ceiling. >> we're not talking about spending reductions now. we're talking about the affordable care act, a policy that has nothing to do with spending reductions. do you think that as a sound policy, a threat to breach the debt ceiling over the...

Middle class is why he got into politics, bill. bill: what has been the republican response on this, wendell? >> reporter: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell accuses president of doing endless political road shows when he wants to change the subject. he says the president should be working with republicans instead of talking at them. mcconnell says he will push to keep the spending cuts forced by the so-called sequester. >> i know the administration is anxious to undo the commitment to the bill the president signed. i'm sure they will want to talk about sequester relief. i think it's impor...

Spending this amount of money this year. we would be happy to talk to them about reconfiguring the way the spending reduction is achieved but we are not going to cut a penny less than we said we would. >> are you expecting he will propose some more revenue razors? >> that's what he has been a advocating on the campaign trail. >> your response will be with all due respect no. >> the answer is no. he will not get all of the taxes he wants. this big bloated federal government will spend 3.6 trillion this year to reduce its spending 2.4 percent over the next six months people hai have discussed th...

That's why he will not work with republicans and not put up any numbers except for budgets that have been so absurd they couldn't get democrats to vote for it. >> megyn: kirsten, i went back and trying to look at 2.5 trillion dollars in deficit reductions and what i gather, only 1.4 trillion of true spending reduction, the rest is like tax hikes and so on, okay? so true spending reductions and of that 1.4 trillion in spending reductions that he's agreed to, they take place over the next several years through 2022 and it's-- it remains to be seen whether the cuts will be implemented and whether...

Way the spending reduction is achieved, but we're not going to cut a penny less than we said we would. >> john: are you expecting that he will propose tomorrow some more revenue raisers? >> that's what he's been advocating out on the campaign trail. >> john: so your response to him will be, mr. president, with all due respect, no? >> the answer is no, he's already gotten all the taxes he's going to get. he got it two months ago. we're asking this big bloated government that's going to spend 6.3 trillion, to reduce spending 2.4% over the next six months and people i've discussed that with think...