>> don't get me wrong. they want to cut entitlement programs. they are very clear that the trajectory, you know, forget about the deficit today it goes like that in the out years. and the republican party has staked its claim to dealing with that problem and to a certain extent they deserve some credit for that. what they don't want to do is get specific about how they would handle it other than this ryan voucher medicare thing which is way far away and we can explain that. what you got now is, yes we want to deal with the problem. but we have no idea -- i mean the republican party is in complete disarray right now because they don't know how to respond. they don't know what to do other than these vague platitudes about tax reform. >> they also have been all over the place in the past ten years. think back to the republican party in 2003 which had a huge expansion of medicare when it was popular. remember who the base of the republican party is. it's the people who are drawing on medicare and social security.