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Questions about his stance on the debt ceiling and leverage. let's take a look. >> what i'm willing to say is if the president won't lead us here in the direction of reducing this massive spending addiction that we have, then we have to use whatever leverage we have. and there are some examples of leverage coming along. the debt ceiling is one of them, that hopefully would get the president engaged, even though he seems unwilling to do it on his own. >> john, what about that? this is leverage just because they can. your thoughts. >> well, they're playing with fire. let's be clear about that. a...

The debt ceiling and leverage. let's take a look. >> what i'm willing to say is if the president won't lead us here in the direction of reducing this massive spending addiction that we have, then we have to use whatever leverage we have. and there are some examples of leverage coming along. the debt ceiling is one of them, that hopefully would get the president engaged, even though he seems unwilling to do it on his own. >> john, what about that? this is leverage just because they can. your thoughts. >> well, they're playing with fire. let's be clear about that. and the president and democrats...

out a plan palatable to both sides, and there's a separate push for the balanced budget amendment. the president suggested this morning that the u.s. doesn't have time have for any proposals. >> we don't need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs. the constitution already tells us to do our jobs and to make sure that the government is living within its means and making responsible choices. so it this notion that we're going to go through a multi-year process instead of seizing the moment now and taking care of our problems is a typical washington response. we don't need more stud...