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social security. and one more point, bernie sanders while joe biden was on the floor of the senate pushing, bernie sanders was pushing to block the cuts. >> and so joe biden was on "morning joe" on january 22 and he said that he would not make cuts to social security if he were president despite his past comments. and he calls for putting social security on a path to long term sole venls civency by asking am with higher wages to pay the same tx taxes on their earning. so does the new joe biden move you at all? >> well, the problem is that mitch mcconnell has told reporter that's he wants to work with the next democratic president to cut social security. that is what he told bloomberg news. and so the question for voters is whether you think a person who has spent 30 or 40 years pushing for social security cuts, wanting to work with republicans to cut social security, whether you think that person as president all of a sudden when the senate republicans come to them as president and say they want to cu

nancy altman is an expert in social security, and the president of the social security works organisationme. talk us throuthoe biden in the past, what has he said on social security plans? has his comments in the past been unfairly characterised by the bernie sanders campaign?” don't think they have been unfairly characterised, the so—called very serious people, the conventional thinking for the 19905 and 2000 was that social security was unaffordable and had to be cut. there was literally a leaner funded campaign that convinced the elites, the media and mainstream politicians that social security had to be cut joe biden was one of those convinced. bernie sanders, like with the iraq war, was always correct and social security. he understood whether we expand social security or cut it, it is a matter of values, not affordability. he has been right all along. joe biden now is also for expand, but he did go for many years he was open to cutting the programme. i take your point about values, but while it may not be fashionable at the moment to talk about deficits that much, that question of a

social security goes from 1092 to 1906 within the budget window. so i think that is built in is some savings as a result of the economy doing better and getting rid of some fraud, but in no way are we looking to cut social security benefits. >> let me recognize the gentleman from nebraska, mr. smith to inquire. >> thank you, mr. chairman. certainly thank you, mr. secretary for being here and sharing your expertise and for your service to our country. i want to briefly touch on an issue of concern which i am sure you're aware of and the proposed regulations implementing section 199-ag, the grain glitch fix. a number of us on this committee wrote to you recently about the need to ensure legislative intent as treasury finalists implementing it provision. i hope you'll take the appropriate time finalizing this regulation and work with us to ensure the producer members of co-opes are not harmed by this provision. also on the topic of regulations there's a fair bit of reporting how treasury has actually implemented the tcja. i was hoping you'd clarify a

the social security programs is already at one trillion dollars. medicare and medicaid is expected to hit a trillion dollars each by 2026 which include state money for medicaid. and the interest on the debt will hit a trillion dollars by 2032 so right now, our total federal budget is 4.5 trillion dollars. those four programs are active with these alone will be four chilean dollars relatively soon. that will crash out a lot of other opportunities for spending and ranging from the fence to the whole panoply of discretionary programs to the country. so we need a plan, to deal with this. i recognize that we need to deal with short term student prior to national priorities and make sure we have strong economic growth, but we also need a plan to put us on a better path. i was very pleased, mister chairman, to see the bipartisan bill that was passed out in this committee that would set the debt to gdp targets and with also dealing with another trouble scenario that i pointed out in the past setting the debt limit approach it does not control the deck, it

i'm wondering if social security people get anything. also i would like to comment on one of the governors the other day said they had a deal with a company to get all the ppe's for the nurses and doctors, and the company called back later and said we cannot do the deal with you anymore because we've got somebody who is going to pay a higher price. i worry about that. i certainly hope that the doctors and the governors that have to do with these companies remember that. host: go ahead and respond. guest: i do not see anything in this plan regarding social security beneficiaries. ♪ >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you, mr. president, for comfortre today as prepares to set sail for new york. on behalf of the men and women of the department of defense, i want to thank

to expand social security.nother candidate has been on the floor of the senate calling for cuts to social security, medicare, medicaid, and veterans' programs. one of us led the opposition to disastrous trade agreements, which cost millions of good paying jobs. [cheers and applause] and that is me. [laughter] and another candidate voted for disastrous trade agreements. one of us stood up for consumers and said we will not support a disastrous bankruptcy bill. [cheers and applause] and another candidate represented the credit card companies and voted for that disastrous bill. [booing ] so here we are, we have two major goals in front of us, and they are directly related. first, we must beat a president who has apparently never ready the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause] a president who thinks we should be an autocracy, not a democracy. [booing] but second of all, we need a movement, and are developing a movement of black, white, latino, native american, asian american, gay and straight. [c

joe biden has repeatedly advocated for cuts to social security.h, a bit of a twitter beef as the kids would say before eventually calling it a night. >> let's bring in the cnn political analyst and, you know, the third rail of politics, social security, the president vowed he would not touch entitlements and then we heard him when he was at davos and he said i'm open to doing that and then he said it again last night. will the democrats seize on this, because this is powerful election year message. >> they're definitely going to seize on this especially because you're talking about social security affecting a reliable voting bloc of people. you'll see democrats seizing on this, holding to what trump said even if he switches his message again. and it's going to be a politically charged battling on the campaign trail and once they get to d.c. and various spending and then we'll see what actually happens as people actually deal with what's been a really big problem for a long time. >> the banner says national debt over 18% in this administration. do

social security will exhaust by 2034 and we'll be paying a heck of a lot less in social security benefits if we don't do something about that. so i want to get to health care spending. i have a bill with senator wyden to reduce health care costs and we can't allow them to go faster than the economy grows. if we are serious about reducing our debt, my question to you is, don't we have to control the growth in federal spending on health care and entitlements? >> absolutely. congress needs to do that. the fastest growing costs in the federal government are health care costs on interest on the debt. the health care cost, as you point out, senator, are growing faster than the economy and are projected to continue to do so in the future. so, there has to be some changes. by 2026, there will only be enough money in the medicare hospital trust fund to pay 89 cents on the dollar of benefits so that's right around the corner, that would affect millions of americans that rely on the medicare hospital trust fund costs. and put enormous pressure on the federal government. the suggestions that you make

millions of americans are about to receive checks from the government, including recipients of social security. $1200 under the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package. an additional $500 will be paid out for independence. securitywho get social payments will also get money. those with supplemental security income and those who have little or no income. that answers that question. let's go to michael, calling from michigan. good morning. hello. thank you very much. host: go ahead. caller: i have a couple of questions. is sent to the markets when politicians sell off millions of dollars in stocks? how would americans be benefited if our government was not paying over $600 billion a day in interest on our debt? thank you. host: go ahead and respond. guest: i share your distaste on dumpeditician that that stock. that is disgusting. clearly had some insight into what was coming down the pipe. i suspect there will be a day of reckoning for those politicians once things settle down. that story is not going anywhere. that is not the right thing for you to be doing when you are a lawmaker. households,

he can't hide 40 years of working with republicans to cut social security.so things are clearly heating up here, partly because the sanders campaign has a lot to prove. super tuesday did not go the way that they wanted it to. and they are hoping to turn things around as they head into this, the next set of states on tuesday and we're here in chicago, illinois, a state that votes on march 17, so they're looking even further out and what you're hearing is this midwestern part of the country from sanders is criticizing joe biden over his record on social security, but also his record on trade. talking a lot about these trade deals that were a big deal for auto workers, and for industrial midwestern workers, in decades past, and in the same way that sanders used that argument against hillary clinton in 2016. that's going to be a really important one, sanders who wants to have a repeat of what happened in michigan in 2016, he beat hillary clinton, in a surprise win, and the sanders campaign hoping to really have a repeat of that kind of performance and not lose a

i don't think congress or the american public would accept the 23% cut in the social security benefits for a lot of people whose sole reliance of income is the so security system. as i testified before the senate aging committee people aren't saving much on their own some people in high incomes are doing well but a lot of people are not. and so, there's not a savings. the federal reserve -- >> social security was what percentage of benefits? >> you only pay 77%. that's for the old age survivors. the disability part is different but the old age survivor and the main one that people rely on for income, millions, tens of millions of americans rely on that system so you have these inflection points that will force congress to act. the message i've been trying to convey is the longer you wait the more draconian the changes will have to be made. you can't phase them in overtime paid one of the things with social security there are a lot of proposals and bills that have been introduced in the congress to solve that and that -- i won't say it's easy to solve but compared to healthcare i think

social security you pay in every paycheck, unless you're really rich then pu pay in for a -- then you pay in for a few months. it's insurance, it's social insurance. you pay in, when you retire or get disabled or you die, your children get the survivor's benefits. you pay in paycheck after paycheck after paycheck and then when you need it, that's the whole point of insurance, when you need it for disability, when you need it for survivor's benefits if the breadwinner in the family dies, or you need it for retirement, then you get it. it's one more -- it's one more broken promise to workers by president trump, one more betrayal. remember at the beginning of the year president trump went to davos. while he was hobnobbing with the global elite, he let slip his plan. he changed his mind, but it was clear what he wanted. president trump said he wants to pay for tax cuts. remember, 70% of the trump tax cuts went to the richest 1%. that's why you saw the lobbyists going out -- in and out of the leader's office saying i want this tax cut for this company and that company. he wants to pay for

social security and medicare. you had joe biden saying i'm protecting social security, even though in the past he is proposed various cuts to social security as part of deficit reduction proposals. that is another issue that's playing out in the campaign, but i do think mcconnell will go to biden and say we will cut the deficit together. that's what he's wanted to do and it was his biggest disappointment saying congress was not being cut a deal that would cut entitlements with barack obama. host: how concerned should mitch mcconnell be about the majority? guest: i think it's very much in the mix. there are a handful of seats whether democrats have a real shot of taking the >> we're going to leave this segment of "washington journal" but you can watch all of our c-span.org. the house is about to gavel in. this is part of c-span's 40-year you tment of bringing gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. today they are working on two reunify korean americans with relatives in north korea. coverage here on c-span. the

one of us has spent his entire life fighting against cuts in social security, exploiting to expand social security. another candidate has been on the floor of the senate calling for cuts to social security, med care, medicaid and one of us led the opposition to disastrous trade agreements, which cost us millions of good-paying jobs, and that's me. and another candidate voted for disastrous trade agreements. one of us stood up for consumers and said we will not support a disastrous bankruptcy bill. and another candidate represented the credit card companies and voted for that disastrous bill. >> after a disappointing breakout, michael bloomberg is reassessing whether or not to stay in the presidential race. senior campaign officials telling nbc news that bloomberg will meet with top advisers in new york this morning to make a decision after pouring more than $500 million of his own money into the campaign. the former new york city mayor failed to meet the 15% threshold required to win delegates in most super tuesday states. but according to the data, bloomberg has already invest eda $7 mil

this is a man who wants to cut social security, cut medicare.ot bernie, the president of the united states. so this is much bigger than whether or not i'm the nominee or bernie is the nominee. we must defeat donald trump. he is the -- four more years of donald trump will fundamentally change the nature of who we are as a nation. we've got to restore this country's soul, that's essential. as long as this president is there, we're not going to be able to that. mr. tapper: senator sanders -- sen. sanders: can i just say a word, then i'll respond to you? mr. tapper: well, it's just a quick question. which is, if he is the nominee, vice-president bidenyou've already said you would support him. but will you campaign for him? will you urge your supporters to -- sen. sanders: on day one, when i announced my candidacy, what i said isthis country cannot deal with a president who is a pathological liar, was running a corrupt administration or obviously doesn't know the constitution of the united states, who believes he's above law, was a racist and a sexis

that could lead to cuts to social security and medicare. you had joe biden saying i'm protecting social security, even though in the past he is proposed various cuts to social security as part of deficit reduction proposals. that is another issue that's playing out in the campaign, but i do think mcconnell will go to biden and say we will cut the deficit together. that's what he's wanted to do and it was his biggest disappointment saying congress was not being cut a deal that would cut entitlements with barack obama. host: how concerned should mitch mcconnell be about the majority? guest: i think it's very much in the mix. there are a handful of seats whether democrats have a real shot of taking the >> we're going to leave this segment of "washington journal" but you can watch all of our c-span.org. the house is about to gavel in. this is part of c-span's 40-year you tment of bringing gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. today they are working

so biden has called for raising the social security retirement age and also cuts to social security inrder to balance the budget. but later on in his career as you saw during his debate with paul ryan, he told a much different story. so some folks on social media calling him out on this big flip-flop. one twitter user says yeah, but now he's running for the big seat at the table and is willing to say anything for a vote. sounds like a politician to me, doesn't it. this twitter user says if he is lying to us now, he will lie to us in the white house. we can't trust him. lastly, another twitter user says shouldn't moderators call those obvious lies out. well, that was in the past. we are talking about the present and joe biden's current policy is to increase social security. heather: okay. >> to be clear on that. heather: it changes. >> he's been in politics for -- heather: for his whole life. let's talk about this group of ladies who are helping senior citizen neighbors with groceries and other essentials. this is a great idea. >> we've seen videos go viral for people scrambling for the

www.joebiden.com and read his plan for social security. it expands social security, not cuts it.t's on social security, whether it's on vice president biden and how he fought and helped -- how he fought and helped save, you know, autoworkers and folks with the recovery act, so on and so forth, i think these attacks have fell flat, lawrence, honestly. was a regurgitation of things he has said, attacks he has lobbed at vice president biden throughout this entire campaign. and they fell flat tonight because the american people aren't listening to it. they know joe biden. and they know it's not true. >> when did joe biden decide that tonight's debate would be when he announced that he would choose a woman as his vice presidential candidate? >> well, you know, this is something he's thought about long and hard, obviously. and he chose tonight because it was a big commitment and he wanted a big stage to say it on. and, frankly, i think that exchange was -- was one of the best moments of the debate. when asked about women in government and in leadership, vice president biden doubled dow

and the advocacy group social security works tweeted -- "this is a trojan horse attack on our social security system, which will do nothing to meaningfully address the #covid19 crisis." meanwhile, "the washington post" reports the white house is strongly considering pushing federal assistance for oil and natural gas producers hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak and a price war between russia and saudi arabia. former vice president joe biden scored decisive primary victories tuesday night in michigan, missouri, mississippi and idaho. meanwhile, bernie sanders is leading in washington state and north dakota, where votes are still being counted. he is not can with biden. while biden is less than halfway to the delegates he would need to secure the democratic nomination, he declared victory during a speech in philadelphia. >> i want to think bernie sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and their passion. we share a c common goal and together we will defeat donald trump. we will defeat him together. amy: joe biden was speaking in philadelphia. he had canceled his rally in o

or raising the retirement age, i formed along with people like barbara boxer is defending social securityaucus to say no when 20% of our seniors are trying to get by on $13,000 a year or more, we are not going to cut social >> yesterday you endorse an elizabeth warren plan that would undo departs of the health bankruptcy law you helped pass in 2005. a few hours ago you announced support for making public college tuition free for families who make less than $125,000 a year. something senator sanders has supported. what changed? >> two things. number one, let's talk about the bankruptcy bill. the bankruptcy bill is passing overwhelmedly and i approved it. i had a choice, it was going to pass, republican president, republican congress, and i offered two amendments to make sure people under $50,000 would not be affected and women and children would go to the front of the line onn alimony and support payments. i did not like the rest of the bill but i approved it, number one. number two, i talked with senator warren about her proposal. this is the first opportunity we've had to make substantia

then i get $89 from social security. i can't afford to buy groceries, and i can't afford to get sick. and believe me, i can't afford to die. >> there are 25 million americans over 65. they are mothers and wives. they are people who wants to -- people who once belonged to somebody. and now they belong to nobody, not even the nation their husbands and sons died for. no country in the world treats its old as cruelly as america, and there has never been a crueler policy toward old people than in the last four years. they are the victims of a policy of official neglect. >> 8:00 in the morning and you don't come home until 5:00 at night. and by the time they come in here and take you, you are ready to blow your top. you get so nervous and so sick, and so hungry. my god. when you get through there, you know what is wrong with you, but then the thing of going back and waiting and going back and waiting, you can't do this when you are old. >> hello. can i help you? >> yes. i would like my refill. >> it will be just a minute. >> a

he would not cut medicaid, medicare or social security. he lied. his budget calls for massive cuts to medicaid, medicare and social security. now let me tell you why we are going to win the democratic nomination. [applause] sen. sanders: why we are going to win here in california. [applause] sen. sanders: and why we are going to defeat and defeat badly donald trump. [applause] sen. sanders: we are going to win because we have the strongest grassroots movement, multiracial, multigenerational -- [applause] sen. sanders: in the history of this country. [applause] sen. sanders: right here in california, our volunteers have knocked on more than one million doors. [applause] sen. sanders: and they have done the same in iowa, in new hampshire, in nevada, in south carolina. our campaign does not have a super pac. [applause] sen. sanders: we do not wondered a super pac. we do not want a super pac. we do not need a super pac because this campaign gets its financial support from the working families of this country. [applause] sen. sanders: this campaign has

but in no way are we looking to ut social security benefits. mr. thompson: let me recognize the gentleman from nebraska -- mr. neal: let me recognize the gentleman from nebraska to inquire. mr. smith: thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr. secretary, for being here, for sharing your expertise and service to our country. i want to touch on an issue of concern which i'm sure you're aware of, the proposed regulations implementing section 199-ag, the fix. a number of us on this committee wrote to you recently about the need to ensure legislative intent as treasury finalizes regulations implementing this provision. i hope you'll take the appropriate time finalizing this regulation and work with us to ensure the producer members of coops are not harmed by this bipartisan provision. also on the topic of regulations, there has been a fair bit of reporting on how treasury has actually implemented the tcja. i was hoping you could clarify a couple of things. how would you say treasury decides who to meet with about proposed rules? and can you reflect a l

here's the deal, joe biden has rerepeatedly advocated for cuts to social security. democratic contenders kept the twitter beat going for a bit and then called it a night. he was in davos in an interview with cnbc, he floated cutting entitlements and walked it back and said it's democrats cutting entitlements. >>> all right, a federal judge is sharply criticizing attorney general bill barr's candor and credibility in his handling of last year's mueller report. judge reggie walton ordering the justice department to let him review the un-redacted mueller report in response to a freedom of information lawsuit filed by buzzfeed and a watchdog group. walt appointed by a republican president called barr's summary of mueller's main conclusions, quote, misleading. barr told congress and the public mueller found the trump campaign did not conspire with russia. barr also said the justice department determined the president had not obstructed justice. >> about 9 minutes past the hour. after a brief hour of hope an alabama man is executed for the deaths of three police officers

to expand social security.ther candidate has been on the floor of the senate calling for cuts to social security, medicare, medicaid, and veterans benefits. opposition tothe disastrous trade agreements which cost us millions of good paying jobs. me.that is voted forr candidate disastrous trade agreements. consumersstood up for and said we will not support a disastrous bankruptcy bill. and another candidate represented the credit card companies and voted for that disastrous bill. are.re we we have two major goals in front of us, and they are directly related. first, we must beat a president who apparently has never read the constitution of the united states. a president who thinks we should be an autocracy, not a democracy. but, second of all, we need a movement and a developing movement of black, white, latino, native american, asian american, gay, and straight. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: of people who are making it clear every day they will not tolerate the test level inequalitynd wealth we are experi

take a listen. >> my lord, bernie, you're saying i'm opposed to social security and it says it's a flatie and that the washington post says it's a flat lie. >> when joe and others who are enamored with the [inaudible] which included cuts to social security and raising the retirement age i formed defending social security caucus to say no. >> the simpson commission was back in 2010 and most voters don't even remember appeared shannon. shannon: okay, i want to bring you in here because this is down to these two final democrats at this point and the former vice president promised to do was that if he gets the opening on the sipping court to name an african-american female and a lot of people went directly to kamala harris and were looking at other folks but professor jonathan turley who we have on quite a bit, people know him and well respected said this, biden pledged to impose a threshold requirement for the race and gender of the next nominee is troubling. an absolute condiment would be unconstitutional use for the mission to a public college yet it would be used for admission to the co

how i will increase social security. >> that it is paid for. go to joebiden.com and look at my exchange with paul ryan object his desire to try to privatize and understand how he manipulated an ad. >> let me lrepeat it again. i want you to straight with the the american people. i am saying that you have been on the floor of the senate time and time again talking about the need to cut social security, medicare and veterans programs. how to deal with the deficit. everything was on the table. i didn't support any of those cu cuts. everything was on the table. including in your judgment cuts to social security. >> in order to get kinds of changes we need. you just contradicted yourself. one minute you said i'm on the floor. it was a reason why i was worried about the deficit. maybe that's good reason or not. you work to cut and advocate for the cuts of programs. >> i did not. i never voted to cut social security. >> not talking about voters. >> look, i voted to protect it. i was just going to look at the debate with paul ryan for the vice presidenc

to fix social security, one of the things we have to do is you can't live off social security. so we have to enhance the onefit to the poor person social security, activist the benefits for the more well-to-do. that is the first thing you have to do if you are going to keep the program that says, here is our goal to help and retirement for those to be able to subsist and live. ,ost: here's a recent headline tom coburn despises every candidate except marco rubio. guest: well, that is a headline. not sure that that is an accurate quote. heart, i know his speaking ability, his leadership capabilities. i have not endorsed him. i think carly fiorina -- there are a lot of wonderful people out there, but what we really need is somebody that is going to talk about what a real problems are, not play the game. had a kind of brings me to another point. the reason you had this whole discussion this morning about outsiders, and that is because they don't give a political answer. and people are sick and tired of hearing the political excuse. and that is why a balanced budget amendment is so

social security.cheers and applause) another candidate has been on the floor. senate calling for cuts to social security, medicare, medicaid, and veterans programs. >> trevor: that's right. one of us is a bi-- t-- and the other person is me. you know who i am talking about. spread the word. the gloves are officially off. the dentures are in. and things, things are about to get messy between these two. not just because there is vices viper rub everywhere,no, because this is the homestretch. to find out who will be the democratic nominee. and bernie, if you are going to attack joe biden, i wish you the best of luck. but remember not to get too close. because then you will have to deal with jill. we'll be right back. imagine yourself in a new toyota. ♪ yeah. ♪ yeah. with great deals, get ready to turn your dreams into reality. right now, save big with an incredible deal on the toyota of your dreams. offers end march 31st. to learn more about all our great deals, visit toyota.com. ready, set, go get your

who receive social security disability benefits, people who get pensions but not social security, low-income americans who don't file enough -- who don't make enough to file these returns. talk to me about these groups. >> definitely, ali, both of us have heard concerns about these issues. almost every adult american will receive one of these checks. that's the bottom line. now, those questions, on the social security, disability, will they get stimulus checks? yes, no matter what category you pull up on disability that has no impact whatsoever on whether you get one of these checks. will this disqualify me? no. there's confusion because the irs is involved and people are scared about the irs on a good day. here the irs is the mechanism for determining eligible and then sending out those checks. people, though, who do not have enough income to file for taxes normally they should probably go out and file taxes. you can declare zero income, you can send in a tax form that has zero income, you go to irs.gov, they got the forms there of course, there are community groups and a service called the

social security. (cheers and applause) another candidate has been on the floor. senate calling for cuts to social security, medicare, medicaid, and veterans programs. >> trevor: that's right. one of us is a bi-- t-- and the other person is me. you know who i am talking about. spread the word. the gloves are officially off. the dentures are in. and things, things are about to get messy between these two. not just because there is vices viper rub everywhere,no, because this is the homestretch. to find out who will be the democratic nominee. and bernie, if you are going to attack joe biden, i wish you the best of luck. but remember not to get too close. because then you will have to deal with jill. we'll be right back. [sfx: ding] ♪ ♪ i don't know about you ♪ ♪ but i got to get it out ♪ i don't know how soon ♪ [sfx: chime] how much? cinco pesos vale. oh ok, thanks. [sfx: ding] ♪ but if we die, ♪ i want to bring the whole thing too ♪ ♪ ooooooh ♪ just another world that i gotta ♪ ♪ get a grip of and hold o

and medicare and you had joe biden say and protecting social security and you've been in the past propose various cuts as part of deficit reduction proposals son that is an other issue that is playing outhe in e campaign and i think mcconnell would go to biden and say will be cut the deficit together and that is what he is wanted to do and that was the biggest disappointments in congress will not be able to cut a deal that would cut entitlements with barack obama. >> host: how concerned should mitch mcconnell be about the majority? >> guest: is very much in the mix. there are a handful of seats where the democrats have a real shot of taking the route house and the rolling and senators, susan collins of maine is facing the race of her life for her approval ratings have gone from 78-42 since trump showed up on the scene in 2015 and that's a stark decline. martha make sally in arizona lost her last race and she's on the ballot again. >> we break away from this back to detroit, michigan where joe biden, get out the vote rally, is about to get underway. heading to the stage right now, governor

we'll have to put more money into social security, and not just fund to the way it has been funded nowhings are going, i think it is ridiculous to think give up politics of it we'll ever cut social security back. or ever raise the age. but i was asked what do you do those are alternatives? liz: start with capri. is mayor bloomberg out of touch or smack on point? >> well, let's start with retail issue, i think first, he is absolutely correct. that there are a number of different factors related on line merchants about amazon, but resale sites, not just that we mentioned he is right, that is having a direct impact on the vacancies on main street as well as shopping centers. he is right. what is he doing about it? he did not see his solution, now in social security, he is right that politics is not with anyone trying to cut social security benefits, but i think there more options than just reducing benefits erin crossing age. >> -- or increasing age. >> picture of joe biden -- i mean of bloomberg. he does not bloc look presidentl that is important to people. >> donald trump does not eithe

take a listen. >> my lord, bernie, you're saying i'm opposed to social security and it says it's a flatie and that the washington post says it's a flat lie. >> when joe and others who are enamored with the [inaudible] which included cuts to social security and raising the retirement age i formed defending social security caucus to say no. >> the simpson commission was back in 2010 and most voters don't even remember appeared shannon. shannon: okay, i want to bring you in here because this is down to these two final democrats at this point and the former vice president promised to do was that if he gets the opening on the sipping court to name an african-american female and a lot of people went directly to kamala harris and were looking at other folks but professor jonathan turley who we have on quite a bit, people know him and well respected said this, biden pledged to impose a threshold requirement for the race and gender of the next nominee is troubling. an absolute condiment would be unconstitutional use for the mission to a public college yet it would be used for admission to the co

disability or social security retirement or veterans benefits, you're still going to get a stimulusou are on social security, it doesn't matter whether or not you file a tax return in 2019 or 2018, as you might imagine, the social security folks tell the tax folks how much money you've gotten, but if you're not getting social security payments, i really want to encourage you to file either your 2018 or 2019 tax returns, that's how they're going to determine who gets these stimulus checks. >> this is so helpful. all right, this is from an anonymous writer who asks will the people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits in prior months be able to reopen their claims since the limitation on business is hiring new employees? >> we have some good news. congress extended unemployment benefits for 13 weeks in every state in the country. and even if you have exhausted your benefits prior to the enantment of the bill, you should be able to get that 13-week extension. you should go back to your unemployment insurance office, let them know that you would like to get your additional bene

sanders tweeted biden has advocated for cuts to social security. in the 1990s then senator biden said he was open to social security cuts as a way to balance the budget. but now biden says he wants to expand the entitlement program. he tweeted back at sanders saying the only person who would cut social security if he is elected is crutch. maybe you should spend your time attacking him. sanders is trailing in the delegate race that forced the vermont senator to change his travel plans. sanders cancelled in mississippi and campaign instead in michigan. >> six states coming up, can't be in six states at the same time. so we have to go where we can do. >> his decision to skip mississippi is an indication that the sanders campaign is doubling down on states they think they can win. >> they don't call it super tuesday for nothing. >> largely out of the public eye since tuesday. focusing on fundraising, an area he is still trying to catch up to his rival. christina racini, cbs news, the white house. >>> coming up, prices for some essential products going