david walker, to david gergen's point about the president's veto threat. you view that as potentially a good thing. every one expects the congress, even though the law says do your job on this super committee or else cuts kick in. never mine, we won't touch that. you view the veto cut as the one good thing to happen? >> i agree. the president said he will make sure that $1.2 trillion in spending reductions happens. the congress may want to he said up deciding how to allocate that defensely but he is saying there has to be at least $1.2 trillion in spending reductions over ten years. and i think that's a good sign. lots of people want to do things that will increase the deficit. notal people want to do things that will bring it down. >> and yet gloria, when the $1.2, that was the floor. a lot of people wanted a ceiling of $4 trillion over ten years. saying that's the signal the markets wanted. a lot of people will ask, was this a waste of time? should they have let this go through the regular process and be create a super committee? >> right. i think you wo

david walker talk about that. i think if we want our politicians to represent our interests, they cannot be costly dialing for dollars and trying to get more money for their re- election campaign. they need to be indebted for us and not to special interests. the only to do that is to take the money out of politics. host: next call on the independent line. caller: c-span is the best reality programming on television. what role does educating the american citizens out there playing in raising awareness and the ability to appreciate what is going on? if we took the case of the super committee and show that on television, would that not show the inaction -? do you reach out to people to teach them more about what is going on? guest: we try to do our best to get the message out. that is why i'm here on c-span, so we can tell a large number of problems that we're seeing in washington. we're not alone in now. there are other groups who are doing the same thing. it is important to educate the american public so that peopl

and have them focus much more on substance rather than on rhetoric. >> host: we are tied with david walker, former comptroller general to discuss an of the super kameny to reach an agreement. angela joins us from akin, south carolina. good morning. welcome to the "washington journal." >> caller: good morning, mr. walker. i followed your career for years and i thank you for your service. .. >> caller: i can see the waste in medicare and medicaid from a firsthand knowledge. something as simp as diabetic shoes that if you buy them in the store, they are $250. you pay $15 for inserts, and the government is getting bills for $400 for one pair of shoes, and the law says i can receive a pair of shoes one pair per year. i have five. it's a waste. as far as the debt committee, it was never going to work because both sides went in entrenched in their own ideology. >> host: angela, thanks from the call from south carolina. to add to that, there's this from minnesota, essentially along the same lines, it's like congress to blame president for the failures. isn't the congress supposed to be our leaders

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host: we're talking with david walker, the former comptroller general and he is talking about the inabilityto reach agreement yesterday. angela joins us on the phone from south carolina. caller: good morning, mr. walker. i have followed your career for years. i thank you for your service. you are right when you talk about "we the people." this country is more about politics than a governing. the people seem to have forgotten how the system of government works. president cannot go in and make demands on the congress. the congress cannot make demands on the president. there's too much ideology in this. i'm a recipient of government help. i receive medicare and medicaid. i am a disabled. i am 57 years old. i can see the waste in medicare and medicaid for may 1 hand knowledge. -- from firsthand knowledge. something as simple as diabetic shoes. if you buy them in this store, they are $50 and you pay $15 for inserts. total costs, $65. the government is being billed $400 and $500 for one pair of shoes. the law says that i can receive one pair of shoes per year. i have stopped it. it is a waste. as

i'm going to hold you to that. >> i promise. >>> thanks to you, david walker. i will do it.ssante, always great to see you. on friday former white house budget director peter orszag will be joining us, to talk about the struggling economy, washington's failure and budget gridlock. >>> newt gingrich says he is not a lobbyist, but according to num "new york times" and former clients, he made millions offering advice. for instance -- he could direct us to the right places in washington and elsewhere. mark halperin is senior political analyst for "time" and msnbc. mark, it's a distinction without a difference. it sounds like it depends on what the definite acquisition of "is" is. if people of the tea party saw chapter and verse what he did in terms of what he got paid for, in terms of the limousine travel he took, they wouldn't like it one bit, but as chris cillizza said earlier, it may not be in the next 30 days there's any messenger out there in the media, "new york times," among the other republican candidates, who can break that message through as long as gingrich stays disc

. >> someone who's been warning of a big mess for a long time is david walker, the ceo of the come backt to show you a chart that was in the "washington post" that got our attention about how we got here. i want you to look at this. if you look at the top part of this chart, that orange and yellow, the yellow is the bush era tax cuts, that's how much of our national debt, the debt held by the public is from the tax cuts. then you can see wars in there and the economic downturn, you can see t.a.r.p., and fannie and freddie is the light blue and the gray is our debt. you've seen this coming for years, begging americans to take deficit reduction seriously long before it was a hot topic. what are these three things telling you about the priorities for the super committee? >> i never believed the super committee was going to go big, although we need for them to. it's not set up for success, four people voted against simpson bowles. i'm still cautiously optimistic that they will reach a deal. what they need to do is recognize that the big deal, meaning tax reform that will raise revenues and

host: we are talking to david walker. he inability of the super committed to reach an agreement yesterday. angela is joining us on the phone from south carolina. caller: good morning, mr. walker. i have followed your career for years. thank you for your service. you are right when you talk about a week, the people. this country has become more about politics than it has about governing. the people seem to have forgotten how our system of government works. the president cannot go in and make demands on the congress. the congress cannot make demands on the president. there is too much ideology in this. i am a recipient of government help. i receive medicare and medicaid. i am disabled, i am 57 years old. i can see the waste in medicare and medicaid. from firsthand knowledge. something as simple as diabetic shoes. if you buy them in the store, their $50. total cost $65. the government is getting bills four and $500 for one pair of shoes. the law says i can receive a pair of shoes one pair per year. as far as the dead committe

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joining me is david walker, former comptroller of the u.s. ng, david. >> good to be with you, alex. >> this may have terrible ramifications. how bad is it really in. >> well, i've never seen this much hyper partisanship, such a great divide and the power of special interests manifest themselves. this was a total leadership failure. probably about the worst in modern history. you had the wrong chairs. they appointed the wrong people. and frankly, the president was out of time when it came to crunch time. we have to learn from 1992. it's time to go to the people. washington is out of touch and out of control. we need to learn from what ross perot did in 1992. >>> $15 trillion in debt, david. can you put this into perspective and how bad it could get for america? >> we are now over 100% of our economy in debt and we're adding debt at record rates. to compare that, if you look, the highest we ever were was the end of world war ii at 122%. but we're adding debt at record rates. whereas, we were bringing down debt dramatically and rapidly after worl

. >> what we're seeing, though, i hope david walker is right in being optimistic, but what we're seeingpeople already trying to rationalize failure. which is the democrats essentially saying you know what? it's better to have these cuts take effect in a year in 2013 because they actually, we protected the poor in the cuts here and defense spending is going to take a big hit and the republicans saying you know what? we can get our national security credibility back by trying to restore some of the defense cuts because we've got to protect our troops, et cetera, et cetera. >> christine, two things. one they need to understand that if congress does nothing, if it takes a ten year vacation, then we have a deficit of 3.4 trillion over the next ten years. all right. they got to have the right benchmark. secondly let me tell you why you won't get a big deal now. neither simpson-bowles or this super committee has done zip outside of washington's beltway to engage the american people with the facts, the truth and the tough choices and to help them understand that what's happening in europe can h

walker's aggressive stance. earlier this year, he spoke to a prank caller, pretending to be tea party billionaire david koch. publican governors like himself and john kasich needed to stick to their plan. >> i talk to kasich every day. john's got to stand firm in ohio. i think we do the same thing with rick scott in florida. i think snyder who got a little more support probably cod do that in michigan. when you start going down the list, there's a lot of us new governors who got elected to do something big. >> you're the first domino. >> yep. this is our moment. >> joining me now is washington correspondent for "the nation" magazine, john nichols. why do i feel like an old-time deejay spinning the hits on these tapes that are so priceless? john, great to have you with us tonight. >> it's good to be with you, ed. >> you know, last week's result in ohio, i mean, does that motivate the folks of wisconsin that there's light at the end of the tunnel, that this stuff can actually happen? what impact is that going to have on the wisconsin recall campaign? >> it has a huge impact, ed. in fact, i was at an interfaith

humberto sanchez of "roll call," and then the former comptroller general david walker. and then melanie sloan of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington on the influence of money. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. a number of conservative birds will come together to talk about their support for not raising taxes. we'll hear from americans for prosperity, that tea party patriots, the family research council, and citizens united. live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> from the miami book fair international last weekend -- >> miami was the center stage where they came to recruit cuban exiles -- the cia came to recruit for the invasion of cuba. many of the people who did not like him very much, they fled right here in miami. >> race riots are still the devil of american life. the election of the first black president is a tremendous landmark that shows tremendous change in racial attitudes. if there had not been that change, he would of had no hope of prevailing. >> in a presidential debate, it is critical -- it is hard to

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yet back in january walker told a guy pretending to be david koch that going after unions was just oneasich every day. you know, john's got to stand firm in ohio. you start going down the list, a lot of us -- there's a lot of us new governors who got elected to do something big. >> you're the first domino. >> yep. this is our moment. >> mike, whatever happened to that moment? >> well, i think that what we've seen -- and you referenced just a little bit in your intro. we've seen there are fewer jobs in wisconsin today since walker took office. there has been incredible division in this state. over close to 60% of the people in this most recent poll want to see scott walker gone. he has -- if he had a moment he screwed it up pretty big by refusing to work with everyone in the legislature in dividing the state and really pushing a union-busting agenda that is hurting middle-class families. >> mother jones is reporting walker called for a special jobs-focused session of the legislature. now, first order of business was abstinence-only education in the schools. what does that have to do wit

notarized and whatnot and now they have this, i guess, stooge, david brandt, sorry, political stooge, is reportly a smalltime donor to walker'se table so walker could go get his money. how much money do you think will flow into the state? >> ed, they're talking in the range of $70 million to $80 million. this could well be the most expensive gubernatorial re-election race, even though it's a recall, that we've seen for any candidate who isn't self-funding. obviously you take out the meg whit nmans and jon corzines. walker will take in unbelievable amounts of kasich in ohio, tha survival politically is a very, very high priority for national, corporate and conservative groups. >> what does it say about scott walker in his future in the republican party, maybe on a bigger platform that that kind of money would pour into the state of wisconsin to save his gubernatorial seat? >> it's not just about scott walker. obviously he might have a future. he's pretty damaged goods. you don't see many of the conditions around the country, running for legislative or gubernatorial elections this fall inviting scott walker in. the big thing is

he was employed by david kirk's merican for prosperity running and setting up the organization and. that would have been to help scott walker get oh yes he is the man behind the walker campaign sean duffy the new congressman congressman who was elected. a lot of the people the new people in the most constant state legislature who you know brought us the anti collective bargaining i mean this is mark bart but he also is involved in voter caging and so in suppressing the man out minority vote yes well credible taxpayer subsidized macam the cain campaign while your so called can i call it so-called campaign because i don't believe he's right i think you are right i am exactly where you know i think that what herman cain i think it surprises them how well you started to do it. because i think herman cain's function was simply to sort of push the other candidates towards david cope's positions particularly on taxes and he's been succeeding in doing that and when you see what the other candidates have been pushing further toward a flat tax but in terms of the tax payer issue what you have is more black control these non-profits i

george herbert walker bush, the last through republican candidate, based on their positions could not be nominated by these republican voters given their positions on immigration. >> brown: david, does that sound right to you? and what of gingrich? >> i'm not sure huckabee could win the caucus. it's the position he has always held. it showed he was brave enough to say it. in the past, otherring have said we're not going to send home 11 million people who have been here for decades as mark said. to me it's a character test for mom. mom knows in his heart of hearts we're not going to send thee pease home. is he going to say the truth he believes or willing to say anything to be elected? i think gingrich is probably not going to be hurt all that much because i think a lot of people who want to restrict immigration rights basically know this reality as long as they can get the border enforced and controls on illegals as long as there can be enforcement on employeres, they understand the reality. but will mitt romney demonstrate that he understands the reality? will romney show that he's willing to say the honest truth, even if it may not be politically opportune at the moment? to

. >> and george herbert walker bush got elected with dan quayle on the ticket. >> no, no, i'm saying i'm with davidt the -- doesn't romney seem like an orderly guy, a 9:00 to 5:00 guy. not honorable does she look presidential, the running mate, but somebody who would give you their own state, which would be ohio, an essential state for republican candidates. >> look, david corn made my point. by talking about sarah palin. it's just -- you run a huge risk when you put someone on the ticket who causes voters to to mistrust your judgment by choosing someone who is not self-evidently from day one ready to be president. and as you say, chris, i think when it comes to mitt romney, you look at rob portman and you can see a sympaticoness. >> let's talk about your rule. when you pick that prn, it says who you are. let's talk, i want you to pick up here, john. if president obama, whatever he says when he does it, if he drops joe biden and brings in -- and brings in secretary of state clinton to replace him and even giving him the promise of the secretary of state job in her place, does that make him look str

second possession, david woodley looks right, finds jimmy sef low, who cuts back in side, and he is gone. 76 yards on the play, and a quick 7-0 miami lead. after a skins score, walkerin a kick-off in his own two, cuts left, finds a seam, turns on the jets, and 98 yards later it is super bowl history. miami leads, 17-10 at the half. >> if we had moved the ball we would have 12 first down, and then we're the best defense in the league and everything that had happened happened in their favor. so everybody here, we've been down by 11 points a game in philadelphia. this was no big panic situation. >> reporter: the second half and momentum reversed. midway through the third quarter, theseman hands to him to garrett. he sails 44 yards to the 94 yard line. that sets up a field goal. skins trail 17-13 before the play that defined a franchise. fourth and one at the miami 43. wriggle pulls way and into the history books. 43, 166 yards, his fourth consecutive 100-yard playoff game and a 20-17 skins lead. >> you know, like i said, when they hand out the rings, that's when the satisfaction will get me. >> i thought they were unbelievable. you know, you saw total dominance and a

george herbert walker bush, the last through republican candidate, based on their positions could not be nominated by these republican voters given their positions on immigration. >> brown: david, does that sound right to you? and what of gingrich? >> i'm not sure huckabee could win the caucus. it's the position he has always held. it showed he was brave enough to say it. in the past, otherring have said we're not going to send home 11 million people who have been here for decades as mark said. to me it's a character test for mom. mom knows in his heart of hearts we're not going to send thee pease home. is he going to say the truth he believes or willing to say anything to be elected? i think gingrich is probably not going to be hurt all that much because i think a lot of people who want to restrict immigration rights basically know this reality as long as they can get the border enforced and controls on illegals as long as there can be enforcement on employeres, they understand the reality. but will mitt romney demonstrate that he understands the reality? will romney show that he's willing to say the honest truth, even if it may not be politically opportune at the moment? to