in other sports, controlling the ball. is that what he s going to do? no attempts to score? doing it as long as he can. i think if rick perry gets in, the calculation changes. he ll have to fight for it. yeah. and he s being called the front-runner by his own team acting the front-runner, he won t talk? because he is the front-runner, a but don t leaders have to lead? yes, eventually they do, if not being challenged directly. irregardless, respond to this, mitt romney asked how he d solve the country s deficit problems. here he was, and his answer. let s listen. the answer for the country is for the president to cut federal spending, cap federal spending and put in place a balanced budget amendment. it s win, in my view, the president s power to say, to his leadership and to the house and the senate, i will cut spending. i will cap the amount of spending.
differences and come up with a plan that the president too can support. jenna: you say the president believes the senate majority leader s plan is a much better approach. as we mention that approach does not include any tax increases or revenue coming into the government. we ve talked about this balanced approach that the president has said over and over again, when i think of a balanced approach it s easy to think about scales where it s equal on both sides. you have equal tax increases with equal spending cuts. how do you see the break down, when you talk about a balanced approach? is it equal like that? let s be clear, the president was going back over the discussions that have been now taking place over many weeks and he was describing where we should go to solve our deficit problems. and in that kind of approach we have to be talking about revenues as well as spending, because when you look at how we got into the deficit problem that we are in, the cause of it was tax cuts we co
and the unc days, in sports, you hold the ball. in football. in other sports, controlling the ball. is that what he s going to do? no attempts to score? doing it as long as he can. rick perry gets in, the calculation changes. he ll have to fight for t. yeah. and called 9 front-runner by his own team acting the front-runner, he won t talk? because she the front-runner and probably, you know almost the only electable candidate. don t lead verse to lead? yes, eventually they do, if not being challenged directly. irregardless, respond to this, mitt romney asked how he d solve the country s deficit problems. here he was, and his answer. let s listen. the answer for the country is for the president to cut federal spending, cap federal spending and put in place a balanced budget amendment. it s with my view the
in other sports, controlling the ball. is that what he s going to do? no attempts to score? doing it as long as he can. i think if rick perry gets in, the calculation changes. he ll have to fight for it. yeah. and he s being called the front-runner by his own team acting the front-runner, he won t talk? because he is the front-runner, a but don t leaders have to lead? yes, eventually they do, if not being challenged directly. irregardless, respond to this, mitt romney asked how he d solve the country s deficit problems. here he was, and his answer. let s listen. the answer for the country is for the president to cut federal spending, cap federal spending and put in place a balanced budget amendment. it s win, in my view, the president s power to say, to his leadership and to the house and the senate, i will cut spending. i will cap the amount of spending.
so we can t solve the problem all on the spending side. i think there is a slightly different question that you re asking me today, which is that in order to get over this deadlock that the congress is now in over the extension of our authority to pay our bills by raising the national debt, what the different approach for that would be. i think senator reid in that case has put together something that frankly appears designed to be acceptable to the house, because it doesn t raise that issue. jenna: so, he would support senator reid s plan as a temporary fix, but as a longtime debt reduction plan the president would want to see something different? just to be clear. senator reid s bill would do serious deficit reduction but not solve our long term deficit problems. the president was speaking to a real structural solution. the tragedy is that the president and speaker were engaged in detailed negotiations where offers were going back and forth for weeks where we were tackling the big