the line for democrats, dubuque, iowa. caller: good morning. i want to agree with the last caller. i think it is very partisan that the republicans keep disagreeing with the president. these are some of the ideas they have had themselves. the republicans like to fight. republicans enjoyed hurting in killing people. i do not agree with that. what the president is doing is very good for our standing in the world to show that we want peace and love. i do not understand why the republicans only want to kill everybody. the caller who said we should just wipe iran off the face of the bearth -- however he said i, he is wrong. we should push for peace. israel should stop building. we should be friends with is true, but we should also help pakistan. host: 01 for independents, st. joseph, missouri. -- the line for independents. caller: i'm taking an ethics class. when i hear you talk, i'm personally proud of our nation for standing up to say that we will not strike first, not be the one to cause all that suffering. i do not believe the majority of people in the middle east or russia -- the a

you can call on anybody from monuments to chapel hill to dubuque and say hey what's wrong with our country and that is why these organizations sprang out, the tea party and these other things, the hostility. sprick but there are no new tax organizations. tater don't touch my social security organizations. sprick but they know something is desperately wrong in america. that is the key. and as long as they do that is what we are trying to tell people something is terribly wrong with this country, dysfunctional congress in that sense. weeper taught and trained by handlers to bring home the bacon. and now the pay is dead. [laughter] and the candy store is closed. >> he does the math. [laughter] if we can build the trust in this whole commission the two of us have we are going to get to the promised land. here is what i feel it could tell the students at chapel hill and the immediately get it and this is a fact, this is in the forecast, this is where we are today. if you take the revenue of the country today this year and put it against mant trey expenditures which are principally the and on it

you can talk to anybody in this country in laramie or charlotte or dubuque and they will say something is very wrong here. what do we have to do? we're going to try to tell them. >> chris: senator simpson, mr. bowles, thank you both so much for talking with us. we'll follow the commission's work and over the six months please come back, gentlemen. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. thanks very much. >> chris: up next, senator republican leader mitch mcconnell. will the g.o.p. make a deal on financial regulation? some answers when we come back. ♪ [ male announcer ] we call it the american renewal. because we believe in the strength of american businesses. ♪ ge capital understands what small businesses need to grow and create jobs. today, over 300,000 businesses rely on ge capital for the critical financing they need to help get our economy back on track. the american renewal is happening right now. ♪ appeasing the will of others and making no real decisions. i think the graph should be bigger. i agree. make it bigger. [ fly buzzing ] should be smaller, too, don't you think? yeah, als