>> they're saying pass the senate bill that extend tax rates for 9% of the americans. let the top two tax pace expire and this will go a long way to for a balanced approach and solve the problem. if you pass the senate bill. $800 billion in revenue. that is $80 billion a year. to put in context the president ran a deficit of $1.1 trillion. $80 billion of tax revenue, reduced that from 1.1 trillion to 1.02 trillion. that is the problem. spending is the issue. there is reticence among democrats to do big, hard reforms that will be necessary to really drop the numbers down by the trillions. that we're not making any progress. jon: seems to me and maybe you disagree with this the president is winning the pr