billionaire john paul dejoria, the ceo of paul mitchell.his already. >> what do you make of this? they're calling it another pivot to things like the middle class and jobs. is it the right thing to pay attention to right now? >> they should have been paying attention to it five and six and seven years ago when all of t economic unrest happened at paul mitchell and petrone we made sure our own people were okay, never missed a bonus, never missed a profit sharing and made sure they had a good life and then we, the private sector, helped others out. i will give you a quick example. appalachia, 150,000 families unemployed and on food starps. we immediately went in and got it back into farming to feed themselves and then the following year having extra produce to sell at farmers markets and grocery stores so they could get right back into the middle class from being on unemployment and from being on food stamps. we started that already so it is my feeling it is something they should have addressed all along. >> this is president obama's point wh

beenar bernard project, whea paul mitchell school, or any other company i'm involved with, take carepend on the government which will goof up everyone, and ruin us. >> john always good to see you, we're still heading him up there are more of us than him. anyway, you still think we -- no matter what that gentlemen said, get ready for backdoor bailout that might already be on automatic pilot. people think i'm trash. but they're wrong. today i'm just an aluminum can. but one day, i could be a stadium. neil: we won't bail you out, but that does not mean we can't help you out, the near 20,000 pen pensioners underwater, they are plopped into health care exchanges, detroit is off the hook, and you america get the bill. is that right? >> you are right, talk about unintended consequences detroit poised to push $5.6 billion to federal budget my concern is to the domino effect. we talk about detroit 5.6 billion, but 61 of largest cities, across the country, have you retiree health benefits that total $126 billion, 96 of which unfunded right now, we could be talking about 10 times what we're see

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mitchell and sam stein back as well. what does kirsten gillibrand, ted cruz and rand paul have in common?ing to the victims. >> peace breaks out. i mean, ways goihat's going on? we got them hugging each other. you've got chuck schumer saying john mccain -- >> the senate works swimmingly. >> everybody's saying the senate's working now. >> when you look at different things. this didn't surprise me at the rand paul front. end of the day, he's a civil libertarian, sort of his ideology of protecting somebody's -- >> what about cruz? >> about softening his own image? i assume he reads his own press clips. if he really does want to run for president seriously, these are the things you do. you go find some ways to not look like you're a stereotype. >> congratulations, that's fantastic news. how did it happen? >> well, i spoke to each of them individually about the issues they had been focused on. ted came to the committee hearing undecided when we were debating this issue as a committee to decide the defense authorization bill. i made an impassioned plea about the 26,000 cases and the fact that o

mitchell. so this is an ongoing conversation by leaders that care very deeply about these issues and are deeply emersed. chris jenning, steve lieberman, paul ginsberg and i were privileged to staff the effort along with bill hoagland, katherine hayes and brian collins and lauren adler of the bipartisan policy center. brian is here and the wizard behind much of the work that we did. if anything gets tough i'm looking at brian. with regard to our proposal really, trish did a terrific job i think of explaining what the goals are of any of these initiatives. certainly to modernize and simplify the benefit, to promote predictability in materials of what beneficiaries can expect and increase support for low-income beneficiaries who might be exposed and be discouraged from seeing out appropriate care. so our goal was to address all of those issues. i will walk through sort of the keel elements of that proposal and i would also note that one element which is meant to help finance the cost of this is a reduction in the subsidies to higher-income beneficiaries. as trish pointed out and as you've seen in the materials that you have in your packet and