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Flight in florida. drivers on the road saw the plane and managed to get out of its way. talk about bad optics, war veterans in wheelchair breaking down barriers to visit the world war ii memorial, government shutdown or no. >> at first i didn't think i'd come, but i'm glad i did now. >> reporter: were you worried when you saw the barriers up? >> no, didn't bother me a bit. >> reporter: you're still going to enjoy this trip? >> yes. >> yes he did. catalyst though perhaps for government alacart in an effort to make sure america does not see this anymore, the house of representatives will attem...

Doing that. right now our republican friends, when you talk about want to do entilement reform, it's not entitlement reform. let's be clear. it's massive cuts in social security, medicare, veterans programs, medicaid. >> you know their argument is that you can't just raise taxes. you have to, at some point, you have to get your fiscal house in order and that means cuts to some of these entitlement programs. >> no it does not. when you talk about getting your fiscal house in order, that's correct, but our republican friends forget to mention that at 15.8%, revenue compared to gdp, that is the l...

good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, december 14th. i'm christine romans along with carol costello on this "american morning." good morning. >> good morning, good morning to all of you. good and bad news this morning for the gop front-runner newt gingrich. with less than thee weeks until the iowa caucuses his political director in the state stepped down after calling mormonism a cult. two gop candidates, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. gingrich is already working with a bare bones staff in this state and meantime, gingrich opened a commanding lead nationally over mitt ro...

>> so 30 million more people going under a program we already cannot pay for. and medicare and other entitlements are beginning to overwhelm the rest of government. president obama, who has obviously been thinking about it, pointed to that very dilemma, explaining the nation can't get close to balancing the budget if entitlements are off the table. >> you would have to cut non-discretionary defense spending by 60%. that's everything. student loans, nasa, veterans programs; you name it. >> the president also said one of the problems with trimming entitlement programs is that people like them. t...

More people going into a program we already cannot pay for. medicare and other entitlements are beginning to overwhelm the rest of government. president obama who has obviously been thinking about it pointed to that very dilemma explaining the nation can't get close to balancing the budget if entitlements are off the table. >> you'd have to cut non-discretionary defense spending by 60%. that's everything. student loans, nasa, veterans programs. you name it. we'd have to cut by 60%. 6-0. >> reporter: the president also said one of the problems with trimming entitlement programs is that people l...