host: rep nan hayworth, a representative from new york and she is also a doctor hayworth, an ophthalmologist and a physician. she graduated from cornell medical college, graduated at the top for class, undergraduate from princeton university, married to dr. scott hayworth with two kids and a freshman. who did you begin what was the percentage? guest: john hall and it was 53%- 47%. host: was a republican democratic seats? guest: my predecessor had served for six terms and john will serve for two terms. it has been a republican seat for most of the past century. i will say that the model has changed among republicans as well. we are more fiscally conservative in this freshman class than has been the case for previous generations of republicans, even this is because of the circumstances that we face in terms of deficit and desperate host: we will take some calls, omaha, neb., you are first. caller: i wanted to comment on the economic impact that you guys were talking about with medicare and all the other things like unemployment. the republicans and democrats are going after each other and ever

host: rep nan hayworth, a representative from new york and she is also a doctor hayworth, an ophthalmologist and a physician. she graduated from cornell medical college, graduated at the top for class, undergraduate from princeton university, married to dr. scott hayworth with two kids and a freshman. who did you begin what was the percentage? guest: john hall and it was 53%- 47%. host: was a republican democratic seats? guest: my predecessor had served for six terms and john will serve for two terms. it has been a republican seat for most of the past century. i will say that the model has changed among republicans as well. we are more fiscally conservative in this freshman class than has been the case for previous generations of republicans, even this is because of the circumstances that we face in terms of deficit and desperate host: we will take some calls, omaha, neb., you are first. caller: i wanted to comment on the economic impact that you guys were talking about with medicare and all the other things like unemployment. the republicans and democrats are going after each other and ever

representative nan hayworth on the debt ceiling. and sohini chowdhury. the house republican conference met with president obama at the white house yesterday to discuss u.s. debt and deficit reduction. following their meeting, they spoke to reporters. on tuesday, the u.s. house rejected a bill that would raise the federal debt limit without cutting spending. >> afternoon, everyone. we had what i think is a very productive meeting with the president today. discussions about jobs and the deficit facing our country. this morning i released a letter signed by 150 economists who agreed that if we're going to get serious about creating jobs in america, we have got to reduce some of then uncertainty. some of that is caused by the giant debt that is facing our country. we had a very fronk conversation. i thought it was productive. i'm looking for serious conversations about how we reduced the deficit and the debt and get our economy going and our jobs. >> today's meeting gave us an opportunity to express some concerns that we have surrounding the current situatio