energy. that don t yield too much. i think one of the issues for president trump is he s had one solo press conference. he s had a couple with international leaders. but only one by himself, which is a historically low amount. he hasn t given a big address to the nation, aside from his joint speech to congress. not doing a lot to sort of move people outside of his base. so, i think talking more to those people could prove a benefit to getting the national attention on it. you re sort of laughing, mack, but isn t this exactly what you would recommend for the president? to a point. i was not laughing, i was kind of in a respectful way. but i think you make an excellent point. i think it s fine. president reagan and mike really invented the photo-op and the message of the day. that s how all of this is now moving forward in a very different age of communication. but it s a little bit like mike tyso tyson. you get hit by the first punch. you have to get hit by some
security. fixing entitlements and balancing our budgets, not our issues, but through polling, these are the big issues that the american people want done. so choose one of those issues. we should include in that group. one was governor o malley, running for the democratic president. what do you think it is that stops these guys? what is it that stops these guys? the base that says don t compromise? don t yield, don t talk? what? it s because we ve gotten out of the habit of governing by goals. remember we used to govern by goals when ronald reagan and tip o neill used to run things? they did tax reform and medicare and social security. we both remember that, neil. i know that you remember that well. and bill clinton and speaker begin grish, they balance the budget. they set a goal, they govern through different pathways to get there. but they ultimately got to that goal. we don t set goals any more. so the six candidates basically
that s been proven wrong. where you have low inflation and historically low interest rates. right now our problem is jobs, and there is no question cutting that sort of spending is going to hurt jobs. michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield.
michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks ofor being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield. we need good jobs now. pay your tax. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view
right now our problem is jobs, and there is no question cutting that sort of spending is going to hurt jobs. michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield. we need good jobs now. pay your tax. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view and katrina vanden heuvel,