david addington is also the former chief of staff to vice president richard cheney, the same richard cheney who infamously remarked, deficits don't matter. and several new polls were released today, a pew research poll found 68% say lawmakers should compromise in the reduction should be a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases. and, a "washington post" abc news poll asked respondents what changes support to raising the debt. 72% raising taxes on incomes over $250,000 a year. 66% raise social security taxes on people with incomes over $107,000 a year. 64% support raising taxes on hedge fund managers. 61% support raising medicare premiums were wealthy retirees. 59% support raising taxes on oil and gas companies. joining me now is msnbc political analyst howard fineman, editorial director for the huffington post media group. thanks for joining me tonight. howard, what's the latest reporting on what's breaking here on the boehnor plan. they went into the afternoon thinking they had a plan that was what it said it was and the question was how do we get everyone to coalesce aro

heritage fellow david addington writes "the second step in the plan is a set of recommendations from a new dozen member joint select committee of congress while the second step of the boehner plan may produce some useful spending cuts. the second step also alous the committee to propose raising taxes as part of its unamendable fast track legislative package." david addington is also the former chief of staff to vice president richard cheney, the same richard cheney who infamously marked, deficits don't matter. and several new polls were released today. a pupresearch poll shows 68% lawmakers should compromise in the debt debate. just 23% say lawmakers should stoic their principles even if it leads to default. a reuters/ipsos poll was taken overnight shows 83% are concerned about the potential of a debt default on august 2nd. and 53% say deficit reduction should be a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases. and a "washington post/"abc news poll asked respondents what changes support to raising the debt. 72% raising taxes on incomes over $250,000 a year. 66% raise social secu