i can be a democrat, a foreign democrat, or passionate democrat. the truth is inside the republican party you have a passion that group of people, the tea party, that want representation in washington as well as in state capitals across the country, and they are fighting the establishment. these individuals say we do not want your luggage ticket, we do not want -- i think it is healthy. it is healthy to have people who are passionate at the grass-roots level try to dictate and determine the future of the party and the vision of the party. but it is going on. >> as the party failed to harness the energy and enthusiasm of people who identify with the tea party? >> i do not think so. we control the house today because of the tea party. we gained because we had these new voters. i came into the republican party in 1984 from the democratic party. i was a reagan democrat. i changed, and at that time there was a lot of friction inside the party from these conservative democrats from the south and ethnic democrats in the northeast and midwest coming into t

and house democrats?> no, in conversations with the senate democrats. they are putting together the votes among the senate budget committee and we will be doing that in our house democratic caucus. but i think they will be close, on the same page. >> how should -- you know, help -- let's cut through a little bit of the bs on how budgets are drawn up. they are political documents, okay. and as you were stating before, you lay out your principle it is you were in charge of the world. paul ryan, that's why there's repeal obama care in there which has no chance of happening. are there going to be similar parts of the senate democratic and house democratic budgets things in there no chance of becoming law but you put them in there anyway? >> these are things we think do have a chance of becoming law. the difference between the house republican budget and the budgets we would be presenting is our blints all take a balanced approach. we will call for additional cuts, all know a targeted way but which also think

and that's a fact. >> democrats are not purging gun-owning democrats and pro gun rights democrats froms. they are counting on them to do the work of gun reform. former congresswoman gabby giffords, proud gun owner, proud supporter of the second amendment. democrats are not purging her either. and not just because she's a victim herself of gun violence. she and her husband mark kelly are touting their status as gun owners every single time they make their case that congress must take action to reform our gun laws. what's happening now in democratic politics is fascinating because it is a republican-style purge. debbie halvorson just got purged in illinois. but this is not a purge of pro gun democrats. debbie halvorson did not get purged because she supports the right to own a gun or because she owns a gun. she got purged because she used to position her as a candidate allied with the national rifle association specifically. she tried to move away from that position this year and it was too late. this fascinating democratic purge is not about guns in general. it is about the nra specific

the democrats tripled the budget. it is not true that it was reagan's tax cuts that led to the deficit. the problem was for every additional dollar that came in to the internal revenue service, the democrats were spending another $3. then reagan's knuckle head of a vice president, the first george bush, unable to learn from the first kick of a mule, made the exact same deal with democrats. he raised taxes in exchange for promised cuts in spending. hikell gladly take a tax today for a cut in spending on tuesday." once again, democrats raised spending. it would be like journalists going to tribal chiefs circa 1890 and saying sarcastically, "are you telling me you would not give of 1 acre of land for a guaranteed promise of 10 acres of land?" and then 10 years later, "we are going to be needing nebraska and south dakota, too." obama claims he wants to keep taxes low for the middle class. let me tell you for the 400 people still left in the middle class, they could not be happier. obama also said he had to shut down white

it doesn't bother democrats or democratic women. and also, when it comes to something like social media, the republicans that i saw, they are more influenced by the opinion of the men in the party. the word feminist is a no-no, but democrats don't have that kind of problem. if they're caught with a drink in their hand, they say, so? you show it, there is a lot more guts when it comes to taking a chance in the democratic party. i went to republican convention in fort worth, and they had votes on era and the equal rights amendment for young people. and abortion. they both failed. i thought, what am i doing here? i can see these vast differences. for years, republicans did not speak ill about other republicans. democrats don't have a problem with that either. out a republican primary, and i would say maybe republican women won't have this problem anymore. have things changed? >> i am doing a project the compares legislatures over 50 years, how changes have happened over time. one thing i have noticed is around the time you see this spl

the democratic party. they don't get book contracts or radio gigs or tv gigs for harming the democratic party. here is howard dean's tv show? if we focused on what is really causing problems, they are going to say that the problem with the republican party is the conservative principles. conservativism is the only thing that the republicans have going for them. [applause] in gallop polls over the last 20 years, about twice as many americans call themselves conservative over liberal or republicans. conservativism is a winning feature, which brings me to a final point. that is the scapegoating of a fake republican establishment. that allows that the real republican establishment to plot and scheme undetected. what will public policy will harm average americans, drive up unemployment, change america permanently in negative ways and on the other hand will be supported by businessmen who will never vote for a republican anyway? s far as i can tell you that republican talk radio and tv shows will vote for it. th

comes in office scream about the debt and force that bad democrat to shoot the democratic santa clause in this case social security it sure looks to me like jude when he's political strategies being played out and barack obama is walking right into it most media has never even heard that story tom i'm a little bit familiar with most media who look at this as you have never even heard of that the other thing the media for good when they talk about obama is that they're what leadership is what l.b.j. did in the civil rights era when he had to go office to office and he had to stand for something this president is unwilling to stand for anything now look we've got we've got four years ahead of us we can either sit here and we can say gee he's a democrat and therefore we're going to stand behind him whatever comes just like the republicans did with the little shrub in the look what it did for the republicans it was a disaster so we have to say mr president you know you're great on the speech stop and we believe you when you're talking on the speech stump but just when we look behind the ca

and former five-term democrat in the primary. on to beat francisco canseco in a tough general election, focusing on his roots during the campaign. here's a clip. >> as a young latino, he wasn't even allowed to start school until he was 10 years old, but he graduated from college and he won a small business and he pushed his family into the middle class. his sacrifices made sure that my life would be better than his. >> well, joining me now is texas democratic congressman, pete guy y gallego from the only swing district in the state of texas. the only one that is a truly 50/50 district. >> it is the only swing district. >> so coming from a swing district, that means to get 50% plus one, you have to win over more than just democrats. what does that mean on these budget issues? >> as an example, ted cruz carried the $23rd by about six points, i carried it by five. >> there were voters who voted cruz and then voted for you. >> governor romney carried it. you know, what it means, i think, is that i have to work very hard to kind of fi

the republican party is bending over backwards for the democrats. the democrats are not swaying. i agree with governor perry implicitly that in texas we need the right to protect ourselves. some people don't get it. obama has broken the law and .umerous times congress should bring him to committee to find out why he is allowed not to do the budget. and to release budget those are the questions i have. host: robert is joining us from colorado, independent line. we are talking about cpac, the senate democrats' budget, and politics in general in the nation's capital. caller: good morning. i would like to point out that so many automatic weapons between rifles and pistols is actually no different. we just band of 30-round trip but -- clip in colorado. what will happen next time if somebody brings in four pistols or six pistols with 15 rounds each in them? clip reloading. i just pull them out of my person and fire 15 rounds, than 15 rounds, then 15 rounds. i have my 90 rounds off. are they going to ban pistols? i would like to know. att: later in the program 8:15 eastern time we will

from former president bill clinton, now you have swing state democrats, red state democrat right therethis seems to be on the democratic side, you better get onboard right now or the train's going to leave the station and leave you behind. >> a year ago, president obama was still not in favor completely. he was for civil unions. hillary clinton recently coming out in support of same-sex marriage. you cannot be a democrat running in 2016 and not be for same-sex marriage. that's the way it is. >> interesting retirement. senator tim johnson announced he's going to retire. it makes a tough line of "d" that democrats have to put forward. west virginia's red, south dakota as we said, it's red. and the republican side only georgia and nebraska not great news with democrats with johnson retiring. most thought to have -- he would have the best chance of winning that seat. >> well, i think democrats expected tim johnson to probably retire. i think this moves right to the top of the republican potential takeover list. but republicans need six seats to take over the senate because president biden,

it was a fight between democrats and republicans. democrats cut spending. how they arrived at savings in their bument and republicans said those numbers aren't realistic. host: trnt republicans say thrg have been increases in spending by the obama administration at pushed the debt from five or six years ago guest: how much debt there was when president obama came to office and how much debt there is now. that is the consistent argument it's getting worse. when you compare the ryan budget to the senate democrats budget there is a different pace of spending, both of them increase spending over time but the democrats by a lot more. host: go ahead bob. caller: we won't really know what's in this thing until the cover is pulled off. we can't trust the media to tell us the truth. and you should really when you have politico on, you should mention if you have a conservative on you will say they are a conservative outfit but never with politico which s a very left out fit based on msnbc that pew research says it's 85% biased. thank you and have a wonderful day. gue

you got any democrats who might go along with you, such as democrats i'm thinking of begich and priory are up for re-election in 2014. it's amazing to me. obamacare, even now, after the supreme court ruling, after obama wins the election, what, we're in the third year of ob a obamacare. even now it is virtually the most unpopular political policy issue in america. you got any ds who will come around with you? >> we don't have any indication now. we have a dozen co sponsors that are all republicans. we'll see when the vote comes up and there may be a couple who decide to vote for political convenience so they can go to the voters and pretend that they opposed obamacare. but i think at the end of the day harry reed is likely going to hold his democrats. >> he's going to go nuts on this. he hates the fact that tom coburn is stopping it. we just had senator coburn on. can you co sponsor hr-1? i just want to put this out there. this is going to be the tax reform bill. this is dave camp, head of the ways and means committee. paul ryan talked to me about it. particularly -- particularly corp

our democrat line. caller: i think the biggest problem with obamacare, enough people don't know what is going on with that yet. because i have epilepsy and it has been hard for me me to get insurance so far. the more people realize the benefits of it, the more positive it will get. host: what is it about it right now that you don't understand or would like to see more information about? -- don't lot of people know a month -- enough about the individual mandate and how it affects people's lives. i just think it is father -- farther along, people will realize how beneficial it is to them. host: we have another tweet, this one writes -- john in north dakota, our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: good morning. .y name is john lewis [indiscernible] i love it. , i lefteft my job everything. so when i come back to north dakota, i have a new job. [indiscernible] then you have nothing -- the second thought is, people in i am only 26 years old. the last time i voted, i voted democrat. [indiscernible] this i

you needed to vote the democrats out of office because clearly lbj and his party, the democrats and the democratic party, hubert humphry had no idea how to end the war. when you needed was total change at the white house. the democrats had to go to nixon could come in and end vietnam. but then less than a week before the election, it all went horribly wrong for richard nixon, because less than a week before election, on halloween night, 1968, the democratic president, lbj, went on tv in a surprise nationally televised address. he made a surprise announcement that peace was at hand. the communist side, the vietnamese side was going to be make concessions at peace talks. the south vietnamese were going to agree to a deal. peace was at hand. the terms were all set. peace was at hand. in recognition of the fact that peace was about to be declared, the united states would step back right away and stop all military operations in vehement. lbj said that on thursday night. the election was going to be tuesday. turns out the democrats know how to end this war. that was bad news for richard nixon

democrats, house democrats to more the president.t from their using is that there are -- the budget balance is in principle. do you know what that means? it gets better. it means that they don't count the interest payments. that is like saying to a family to my family budget balances. i just don't count my credit card interest payment, home mortgage interest payments. can you believe? of course you can't receive all the time. lou: every night, congressman. every night. >> of a trillion dollar coin would solve the problem. on not making this stuff up. lou: congressman, we are way over time. you are making me laugh. i appreciate it. thank you so much, congressman. all the best. a great meeting tomorrow. up next, dueling budget proposals unveiled in the house and senate in the chalk talk next. i show you just how far apart an interesting these two proposals are. in the new fiscal year, the national football league taking off, well, just hours ago. casualties already mounting. you know, this is our way upper tending football is back in s

they preferred more senate democrats over senate republicans. senate democrats are in control. the public also preferred house democrats over house republicans and yet house republicans remain in control. why? because in 2010 when they redrew the district seeds, they created for themselves very safe and often very skewed districts. so i think when they go home, particularly in the far right, in fact, are hearing from constituents the same echo chamber cut spending, cut spending, cut spending. because they are relatively they can have this fight with relatively little cost to themselves in the 2014 midterm. >> when you poll republicans, when you break the republicans out of the poll and ask them do you think we should raise taxes as part of a reducing the budget, do you think we should raise taxes on the wealthy or cut medicare or social security, they say raise taxes. something is going to me house republicans are further to the right of their constituents. second, they seem unafraid. of these polls. typically, politicians are afraid of having a lot of people disagree with them

the other part is democrats want to raise taxes big time.ate proposal, a trillion and a half over the next decade. gates may be enthusiastic about that but that would tank the economy, period. >> bill: here is my problem with gates. i was defending him but i don't think if he would say if george w. bush. you know president bush needs more power. at this think he is liberal partisan. i don't know him. i think that is where he coming from. share the wealth and income redistribution? >> there is no better example of ee leetsd in this country, gates equals microsoft, $61 billion net worth on the part of bill gates. >> bill: he gives a lot of money away. he is not a hypocrite like al gore? >> not even close but we should discuss what he is doing. these powerful companies hold the gate way to the digital world. microsoft, facebook, google these are huge companies, big power and then to align it with statist president like barack obama that would have a crushing influence on our society. >> bill: in the g.o.p. budget put forth by congressman ryan t

they want to see a democrat get skin in the game. >> the democratic party, we will hear more from republicanse months ahead? >> i sat down with the republican party chairman and h traditional marriage between a man and a woman, but with rob portman, they are not going to toss them out because they have a different tradition. it's a different view and the principals remain the same. >> i should ask you, do democrats enjoy that they are ahead on the issue? this is not a constituency that has been divided, but are they enjoying that they are out in front? >> a lot don't want to be on the wrong side of historiful the tide is turning and it may not thb year or next year, but we are getting there. >> stick around. we have to take a break. trivia time. which ncaa tournament coach's wife once worked for a u.s. vice president and who was that vp? it has to be miami. the head coach of the miami hurricanes. his wife liz was director of scheduling for dick cheney while her husband coached at george mason university. congratulations to billy fleming. if you have a trivia question for us, e-mail us at dail

he brought the republican and democratic leadership in on friday.u for a if he can yesterday, saturday afternoon, the president was working the phone talking to both democrats and republicans who he thought were willing to be part of the type of bipartisan compromise that we need to get out of this. >> tell me who the president is speaking to. it's clear he's not speaking to people on the leadership, republican side. >> i can tell you this. he's reaching out to democrats who understand we have to make serious progress on long-term entitlement reform and republicans who realize if we had that type of entitlement reform they would be willing to have tax reform that raises revenues to lower the deficit. >> talking about lindsey graham on the republican side, because it sounds like he's not talking to the leadership? >> he just had the leadership in on friday. what's most important we're not trying to make those calls to read out the names. he's making those calls to see where there might be a coalition of willing, a caucus for common sense and trying t

caller: i'm a democrat and a lifelong committed democrat. in my view, every single democrat senators who criticize president bush for all grades -- for abu graib should have been rushing to support rand paul. there's a right to due process in the 14th amendment. it is what provided the foundation for giving african- americans the right to vote, to ensuring that people have access to government. and this administration has such disdain for it. it is shocking. i have to say that this is more than just the issue of drones used domestically. due process rights throughout our country's history have followed american citizens wherever they go around the globe. this issue about whether one is an enemy combatants, that is something that should be determined in an adversarial proceeding. the executive branch should not get the right to make a unilateral decision about whether one is an enemy combatants and then acting on the evidence they have gathered and acting along their determination of who is an enemy of the united states, go out and kill that

i was a staunch liberal democrat. i truly was, until i started doing my own research and finding my own facts. even my mom and dad were staunch liberals. they're both dead now. t like my mom always thought jack kennedy could do nothing wrong. the biggest thing that converted necessity to being a republican is when i watched the democratic convention, and on the floor, they had the vote to put god and israel back on the platform. why on earth did they ever take it out? that was like the beginning, the wake-up call for me. and then the other day, you guys were talking about chuck hagel and the new missile sites and everything. i listened to all the callers that were calling in, and they failed to mention that they're not very detail-oriented. one of the things chuck said was, we had to get an impact constituted friday the e.p.a. i thought to myself, my god, the e.p.a. is going to be able to roll with the defense department can or cannot do for the good of this nation? not one caller picked up on that. to me, it's just i

i can be a bland democrat, a boring democrat, or passionate democrat.he truth is inside the republican party you have a passion that group of people, the tea party, that want representation in washington as well as in state capitals across the country, and they are fighting the establishment. these individuals say we do not want you on our ticket, we do not want -- i think it is healthy. it is healthy to have people who are passionate at the grass- roots level try to dictate and determine the future of the party and the vision of the party. but it is going on. >> has the party failed to harness the energy and enthusiasm of people who identify with the tea party? >> i do not think so. we control the house today because of the tea party. we gained because we had these new voters. i came into the republican party in 1984 from the democratic party. i was a reagan democrat. i changed, and at that time there was a lot of friction inside the party from these conservative democrats from the south and ethnic democrats in the northeast and midwest coming into the

the democrats aren't a lot better on this issue.ry reid withdrew the assault weapon bill from a vote because he didn't want his democrats to take, quote, a hard vote on guns, because his democrats in red states and more rural areas consider a background check for criminals to be a hard vote never mind military-style weapons. >> michael: and those democrats that bloomberg is argue getting -- targeting, do you think they can be brought over? >> i absolutely think there's hope of bringing them over if the american people stand up for their rights. their rights to live safely in their homes and in their schools and in their communities, and call their members of congress and told them accountable, and what bloomberg and the white house are also counting on is if the democrats and republicans in the house and the senate don't take those, quote, hard votes, they are going to lose their seats in 2014 and i think we can change the congress over this issue. i mean, what is killing 87 americans a day? not the debt ceiling? it's gun violence,

, that's oregon democrat ron widen. but he's ban voice on these issues for a fairly long time. senator richard durbin, the number-two democrat in the senate did say that he is going to hold hearings at his judiciary subcommit sfwe the constitutionality of the drone program and its particular use presumably for u.s. citizens, both on domestic land and as was in the case that was just referenced overseas. and so i think we'll see more of that as the time goes on and there will be more questions asked probably from a broader array of senators than we saw last night. >> brown: scott shane, with john brennan in now, the senate intelligence committee report on enhanced interrogation program, it's not public yet, you wrote about this. it's not public yet but we're certainly learning more about it and it sounds like it will be very damning of the c.i.a. program. so he's got to face that right off, right? >> that's right. this is a 6,000 page study of the interrogation program in the years after 9/11 for at the c.i.a.'s so-calle

at least in among national democrats, probably even among democrats here in the south, however many we's just a decided issue now. it's done. and anybody who runs for president, as a democrat is going to have this position. and the republicans are now officially uncomfortable with the whole thing. they don't want to talk about it. and that's just the way it is. it's been i think everybody on the panel agrees this thing has moved faster than anybody would have anticipated. but moving, it is. >> moving, it is indeed. james carville, a joy, a pleasure and a delight to have you on the show. thanks for joining us. james' book is "it's the middle class, stupid" is out now. more than 30,000 u.s. troops have returned home from iraq with serious combat wounds, but much of the long-term damage is not visible. we'll discuss the toll on veterans when the "huffington post's" dave woods joins us next. max and penny kept our bookstore exciting and would always come to my rescue. but as time passed, i started to notice max just wasn't himself. and i knew he'd feel better if he lost a little weight. so

i mean, many democrats were criticizing the bush administration--almost all democrats were criticizing bush administration 2005-2007 when bush was unpopular. but many of them were doing it just for political reasons. and obama inherited that legal architecture. many of those democrats have become silent. so now what you see in the senate is that it takes someone like rand paul, it takes someone like a ted cruz to criticize the president on executive power. >> cenk: yeah, i mean, we're left with mr. holmes to stand up for the constitution. sad day in america. i have a technical question here. rand paul is doing the filibuster. the other seven senators who have joined in a sense in the conversation are not technically doing a filibuster. they just happen to be helping him pass the time. is that roughly right? >> yeah, that's roughly right. i think that this is rand paul, and he's yielding the floor to them without giving up his full rights. so someone like marco rubio didn't fully join in. he didn't even say what the president was doing was problematic. surely harry reid did not join in

the long-delayed democrats plan on wednesday. right now our massive debt is slowing the economy and depressing wages. we have a moral duty to balance the federal budget. we need to bring the deficit down to zero. this is the great challenge of our time. you may be surprised to learn that we can achieve this goal if we simply hold the annual growth of spending to 3.4% each year. i fear that the democrats proposal will affect -- fail this test and will never achieve balance. it will crush american workers and our economy with trillions of new taxes, spending, and that. i fear chairman murray will fall the -- follow the president' lead and raise taxes at the expense of the people. we need to grow the economy and not the government. people are eating hurt every single day by the washington establishment come of the democrats are determined to shield from accountability. government has never been bigger or out of control. they say there is no problem with braced, --waste, fraud, or abuse oh stop they say the problem is -- waste, fraud

a democrat a democratic president is putting forward a republican plan essentially the democratic presidents putting forward and they're about i think preparing to take it and claim it is a victory and for them frankly and unfortunately it would be a republican party a conservative victory and if all of the added revenues as a consequence of closing tax loopholes and god knows there's enough of them out there so that there are no actual increases in marginal tax rates they can continue to make the claim that they have been loyal to god grover and. now they've got a deal with the president and meanwhile they succeeded in getting getting the first first democratic president in a long long time may i suppose you can argue that bill clinton did it somewhere what with you know destroying welfare as we know it to shoot the traditional democratic santa clause of of social security and look this is the same week the president obama went on record saying topic anomic advisor that he prefers cuts to social security to the so-called chain c.p.i. those would those would be big cuts so now we have a demo

democratic dogma. aren't they saying, there can be an agreement as long as everybody agrees with me? >> yes, he is. but he's trying to do other things with these kinds of press conferences and op-eds. by the way, you spent plenty of time with the president. i have, too. saying he's not a leadership is going to get under your skin. that's a cheap shot. he doesn't care. he knows who he is and he's the president of the united states. john boehner knows very well indeed and all of the republican leaders know very well that this president has put entitlement reformed on the table. they may think that they are not enough. i'm sure they feel very sincere about that. but there are plenty of democrats who think that even the entitlement cuts, even change cpi are too much and they know very well that there's only one democratic leader right now pushing hard for that and that's the president of the united states. so there's a bargain on the table. if they want to drop the cheap shots and take what's on the table,

north carolina democrats are urging the governor to do away with it. are two of the faith heards who are spear heading one of the protests rabbi john friedman, and reverend jill edens. welcome both of you inside "the war room." reverend i want to start with you, why is a distinct license for these young immigrants discriminatory? >> no other state in the union has decided to do this. so when this went to the department of transportation this was a unique response in having this pink stripe put on the license, and then the confusing words no lawful status. since these are young people, and they do have a legal presence in north carolina. they can get work permits, they can have a social security number, they are allowed to have driver's licenses. so it doesn't seem to serve any important legal purpose. we went to speak with the congregation about this, and they were quite upset. they felt like it was going to target a vulnerable community in north carolina, and they mentioned that the color pink was especially offensive. apparently there is a sheriff in

because lots of conservative democrats or democrats in conservative leaning states wouldn't vote forhasn't really been a story since it expired in '04. probably won't come up for a while. thank you for joining us. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." i'm luke russert. andrea is back tomorrow from jerusalem traveling with president obama and secretary ari. richard is in for tamron hall today. rid of, my friend, tate away. >> luke russert, always good to sigh. seven marines killed and seven others injured during a training exercise in nevada. we'll look at what went wrong as details continue to come in this hour. >>> plus ten years after the u.s. led the invasion in iraq and the impact is still being felt. we'll examine what our first read team calls the most consequential political event of the last decade. >>> big a win today for anyone interested in reselling books, music or any other copy written material. the supreme court decision that just came down. next on "news nation." (dog) larry,larry,larrryyy. why take exercise so seriously,when it can be fun? push-

democrats are going to follow with their budget. how do we make sense of these competing budget proposals that we're going to see in the president reaching out to capitol hill more? is that link the groundwork for some kind of budget deal? >> i think you have lots to write about. when i came to the congress four years later i joined the ways and means committee. it was quite different. there is much camaraderie. we knew each other better. the republicans on the ways and means committee were not radicalized like is true today among so many republicans. to be able to sit down and talk about health issues and tax issues, at tax reform record in 1986 in part because you had an ability of both sides to have some give. it is is going to be very difficult when the republicans essentially say "when it comes to revenues there is no give, it is only spending cuts." it is hard to know how that will be resolved. by having more severity it goes forward. the republicans are going to have to move off of the dead center. i am worried. we said the s

host: color on the democrat line, go ahead. on the democrat line.aller: i do not want you to think that you are not appreciated. i will tell you that i am absolutely behind you 100%. i agree with your views. i am just wondering how come they don't tie the debt and the sequester to the wealth gap. it looks like to me that we work and we get paid twice a month. but i am thinking about how many checks these people are getting. they get a check from offshore banking, from tax cuts, a check from the loopholes, a check from corporate subsidies. that is on top of personal because the supreme court made corporations people too. so i do not get all of that. i am wondering what is wrong with mr. ryan where he is looking at little people who are getting one check from a job and five and six checks for these corporations in the 1%. and how much money is offshore in total? they have been doing this for over 50 years. host: let's get a response from senator sanders. guest: let me give you the simple answer, the bottom line. i will tell you what very few senators

i'm a democrat. i want democrats to be in a majority. but there comes a time when politics must not supersede that which is right. the majority of us in this country believes the direction we're going in terms of universal background checks is the right thing to do. if some democrats fall or stand in the way, so be it. i want to be in the majority. it's not fun in the minority. but i also would like to have a society where we're not scheduling almost some kind of tragedy every other month. >> no problem with that at all with me. i agree with you, because the majority is a wonderful thing to have but if we cannot stand up when babies are shot in newtown and children are shot in the streets of chicago, over 500 last year, then what are we in the majority for if we're not standing up for the american people? congressman emanuel cleaver and maria teresa kumar, thank you. >> thank you. >>> ahead, the president pushes for his agenda. >>> plus, has president obama really been disrespecting former president bush? give me a break. i'm going to ge

and democratic strategist penny lee is here as well. lee, he said we can't open the white house, the president says we can't afford to pay for it, i'd love to play golf with tiger woods, $180,000 an hour, air force one, but we're paying for this crap? help me out. >> as they say, the old saying goes, all politics is local. this is what you're seeing is exactly what happens often times when the congressmen write these bills. all of them need to put their little thing here, little dollar there and dollar there and you're right after that it adds up to millions of dollars wasted on such crazy projects as the ones that you just highlighted. so, you saw it on the floor last week, or earlier this week with jerry moran. everybody talks a big game wanting to cut, cut, cut. but then when it becomes local and affects people in their own districts, jerry moran, republican senator from kansas held up the continuing resolution bill because he want today make sure that. >> sean: baloney, baloney. >> air traffic contollers-- >> it's not happening, the

brad on the democrats' line.aller: i just wanted to say -- this kind of goes to what the representative was talking about. i think it all wrong cuts might actually be a good thing because we obviously cannot come to an agreement. i am a democrat right outside of annapolis, small business owner. i did not understand why republicans and democrats cannot come to agreement on what to cut. if they can't come to agreement, let's scare everybody and cut across the board and hopefully it produces some results and gets something done. guest: unfortunately i think the scare everybody is certainly working as a strategy, but i do not think it is very responsible. we need to be in town. you can't come to any kind of deal if you leave town. and we just leave town way too much. i had already seen already this year we have only worked about 17 days out of the entire year. how in the world, we figure out how to work as democrats and republicans if you are always leaving the job site? that is what is happening now. the speaker nee

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senate democrats have done nothing. it's time for them to vote. it's time for us to get back to regular order here in congress. whether the house passes a bill, the senate passes a bill, if we disagree we go to conference to resolve the differences. i made this point at the white house today. it's time for us to do this via regular order. later on this month, the house is going to move its budget. senator reid acknowledged that the senate expects to move their budget later on this month. hopefully out of this process, we can go to conference with the senate and maybe come to some agreement. >> what goes on in these meetings? you talk about a nice conversation and talk about your relationship being pretty good with the president. it's hard for any of us to believe that given how personal it seems, how pointed the language seems to be, and that you're just at such a basic philosophical, ideological, practical disagreement here. i mean, you've got congress left town. both sides don't have a deal. and it's going forward. >> we had a pleasant but frank

senate democrats have not adopted a budget in nearly four years. they'll do one this year because of the no budget, no pay act that was passed earlier this year. they continue to say we need more taxes, but they cannot -- but the truth is they cannot tax american people enough to pay for the spending that they want. the next test will be whether they can pass a budget that they introduced. below in a senate democrats be willing to endorse a plan that taxes more so that washington can spend more? that is not working. american people are sick in tired of the games. our plan, the house republican budget, puts a stop to that. that way they use tax care dollars in an accountable way. will the white house and senate democrats be able to say the same thing about their budgets? will we see more gimmicks and wasteful spending? this path to prosperity, this budget, will create a healthier economy or job creators are hiring, job seekers are finding more jobs, and more american families and entrepreneurs are realizing their dreams. this path to prosperity ensu