chapter didn t mention me but it was still interesting. [ laughter ] chris: i had a very carefully framed question for you, brit, let me ask you a much simpler one. you heard what geithner and boehner said, what do you make of it. well, it is striking that the house has acted to pass the plan and the senate has basically refused to take it up and voted it down. what you see here is an interesting combination of events. because the president really hasn t stated a position horrible plan or any of that. and you know, these the house republicans have basically done that. and what you are seeing here is a very peculiar kind of double standard. because when the house acts, everybody says well, you know, that can t that can t pass. that won t pass.
standard. because when the house acts, everybody says well, you know, that can t that can t pass. that won t pass. but, you don t have the senate has done nothing. they haven t passed a budget. chris: they rejected the president s budget 97-0. they haven t done anything. but so every time this every time the house actuary says it can t pass anywhere else. isn t it time for somebody to step up with an alternative plan? and the thing that is striking about this is a very close parallel to what happened back in the clinton years we had we had the partial government shutdown and that and the pattern is very similar. and in that case the republicans got all the blame and i have a sense here that there is a sense of confidence among the democrats in the white house and congress that if we went up with
exactly what they ve done. megyn: let me ask you this, is this paternalistic, this attitude of, well, the african-american candidates can t pass. there s no test we can come up with that they re going to pass, so what we have to do is make their fs into ds. what you have here is a case in which certainly that test needs to be reassessed and recalibrated. based upon the test they have in front of them, if you meet the score only an 8-10% differential megyn: yeah, but you re not answering my question. i think i am. megyn: let s have a real discussion about this. let s do that. ask your question again. megyn: is it paternalistic for the doj to essentially say, you know, the african-americans, they can t pass it. so we have to take fs and make them into ds. if, indeed, the justice department was doing what you described, that would be a concern, but that s not what they re doing. in this case they re taking a look at a test, they recognize a history and challenge in the
we should make significant cuts, absolutely. we need to. but, we can t cut into our seed core. we can t cut into things that help america grow and create jobs like education or cancer research or food safety, things like that. and i think what you re finding, chuck, is you re going to find a turning point here. now that every democrat has rejected hr-1 and clearly doesn t have the votes to pass the senate, the ball shifts to speaker boehner. we ve put some cuts on the table. we re willing to put more. but they have not said a single place where they would move off hr-1 and now it can t pass. so actually the action in the next week or two will occur behind-the-scenes. speaker boehner will have to meet with this e78s freshman republicans. some said they won t bouj. if he won t he may have to make a coalition with the democrats in the house. hr-1 can t pass. we re willing to be reasonable and meet in the middle as long
absolutely. we need to. but, we can t cut into our seed core. we can t cut into things that help america grow and create jobs like education or cancer research or food safety, things like that. and i think what you re finding, chuck, is you re going to find a turning point here. now that every democrat has rejected hr-1 and clearly doesn t have the votes to pass the senate, the ball shifts to speaker boehner. we ve put some cuts on the table. we re willing to put more. but they have not said a single place where they would move off hr-1 and now it can t pass. so actually the action in the next week or two will occur behind-the-scenes. speaker boehner will have to meet with this e78s freshman republicans. some said they won t bouj. if he won t he may have to make a coalition with the democrats in the house. hr-1 can t pass. we re willing to be reasonable and meet in the middle as long as it doesn t cut the kinds of