simpson/bowles had a goal of $4 trillion. we can get that additional $1 trillion by passing comprehensive immigration reform. which has stalled in the house of representatives. what the president is saying in his budget, we need to get america back to work. we need to make sure that the people who get up every day go to work and work hard can make it. they re living paycheck to paycheck. we ve got to be more sensitive to the fact that more americans working, paying taxes, is going to expand our economy and reduce our deficit. we re going to have to leave it there. to be continued. the budget doesn t even come out until a week from tuesday. senator durbin, senator ayotte, thank you both. thanks for joining us today. we want to ask the obama administration about the crisis in ukraine. but they decided to put national security adviser susan rice on only one show today. in her first sunday appearance since 2012 when she blamed the benghazi terror attack on an an. of course, fox has led
missed, and on the republican side they say we re not going to annoy or base or divide it by taking up an issue like immigration. right. i m not sure i ll use the word rubbish, congresswoman harman, but it s the same question. isn t this really all about politics to help democrats win in november, and in terms of policy, isn t this proposal dead on alooifl? well, i think it s about politics on both sides, and i think it s extremely unfortunate. i am still an unabashed supporter of simpson/bowles. i think they got it right. we didn t go there. let me just quickly say the bipartisan commission that came up with a serious, what, $3 trillion or $4 trillion in deficit reform. right. cutting entitlement reform, tax reform and spending cuts, responsible spending cuts. instead we went to sequestration which hasn t served us well in my view. that s why we have a decrease in debt and deficit. but that wasn t the right way to do it. i think this is a missed opportunity on both sides. i
missed, and on the republican side they say we re not going to annoy or base or divide it by taking up an issue like immigration. right. i m not sure i ll use the word rubbish, congresswoman harman, but it s the same question. isn t this really all about politics to help democrats win in november, and in terms of policy, isn t this proposal dead on alooifl? well, i think it s about politics on both sides, and i think it s extremely unfortunate. i am still an unabashed supporter of simpson/bowles. i think they got it right. we didn t go there. let me just quickly say the bipartisan commission that came up with a serious, what, $3 trillion or $4 trillion in deficit reform. right. cutting entitlement reform, tax reform and spending cuts, responsible spending cuts. instead we went to sequestration which hasn t served us well in my view. that s why we have a decrease in debt and deficit. but that wasn t the right way to do it. i think this is a missed opportunity on both sides. i
way. message to the republicans, you guys had your chance when i was talking deal over entitlements, you said no to tax. now i m saying no. the president s political message could be not hardly any sharper. this is going to be one tough election year. he is saying november is going to turn on who brings out their base. now hear this. president obama is going to do nothing between now and then, meaning november, that causes anything but joy for the democratic base. he is going to try to juice the base. social security, you ve never had a better friend than me, he is saying. higher minimum wage? same deal. well, tonight we take a bold new look at a bold new president. richard wolffe is an msnbc political analyst and executive editor of msnbc.com. and joy reid is the host of the reid report debuting this monday, three days hence at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. i want to start with you, joy, in this, the new look at the president. no more simpson/bowles. we re going down, meet down the
debt. he thinks the debt is coming down quite nicely, thank you. he believes the government can help create demand. he is a keynesian. he has probably said to himself, i don t believe in cutting debt. in the current situation of recovery. i don t think republicans want to do it either. so why am i pretending anymore that i believe in debt reduction and i believe that they might go along with it. so ending the pretense, along with what joy said and i said before, it looks like he is now saying okay, you know what? i m a progressive. and i basically think we could use a little more stimulus. we re going to get through a little more spending. and by the way, i m not touching social security. no more chained cpi or that stuff. your thoughts. shea progressive, but he is also a realist. and the realistic view of the government finance and the economy has changed. that s to say the economy has bounced back better than people thought it would at a time of simpson/bowles. the deficit is looki