for the wealthiest americans. if you're serious about debt reduction, you should do what every bi-partisan commission has recommended and couple those things together. >> every time i here talk about -- hear talk about handling the deficit, the first thing i think of is everyone, republicans and democrats, i realize your party doesn't run the house right now, but everybody has gone off and is looking towards lame duck to handle things like the deficit ceiling, all the bush tax cuts, all those sort of issues lame duck after election. if everyone is so serious about handling those problems, why isn't everyone right here, right now working 24/7 on the problem? >> well, what the president is proposing is we could actually get this done right now. >> all of it. it can't just be cherry pick what you want or what somebody else wants. it's got to be in easternest, e. >> the first is to provide some revenue by asking folks at the top to pay more.