if you're going to constrain the growth in federal spending? one of the most overlooked pieces, if you are rich, you're going to pay more for your medicare. weapon we're willing to consider raising the rear tirmt age, two months we have put these difficult things on the table. we got nowhere. i shouldn't say we got nowhere. we got five democrats yesterday. we overlooked that. it was a bipartisan vote yesterday. you're a good guest on our show. you know your stuff. you can now call me by my name. >> mr. matthews, i'm a big fan. i'm happy to be here. >> can you call me chris. the other day did. matching the record of 61 times. coming up, by the way, what would ronald reagan make of this fight? he signed 18 debt ceiling hikes, agreed to multiple increases in taxes. would reagan even be a republican today? you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc.