like we currently have. chris: i underand it but you are not go willing to say you support the ryan plan. i m willing to say we have to change medicare and it will happen soon. it will happen in connection with the talks with the vice president that are going on right now and in connection with raising the debt ceiling which the president has asked us to do and all of these budgets are interesting to discuss and debate. none are going to pace. what is going to pass is something related to medicare or medicaid in connection with raising the debt ceiling this summer. the country has a little over two months until according to pressry greetinger in we will have reached the final point at which we go into dehe fault. the gang of six, six bipartisan senators is dead locked. in fact, it is now the game of five because tom coburn dropped
israelis seem the least bit interested in a peace negotiation right now. i think the question is whether or not you are going to respond to what we have seen happen in terms of the agreement with hamas in terms of the palestinians saying unilaterally they are going to go to the u.n. whether we as the united states respond to that by saying okay we will give you preemptive concessions here and force the israelis into a situation where they have got to accept indefensible boshedders or whether you approach it by saying we are going to go to the palestinians and say you got to choose. if you are going to alie with a mass, we the united states cannot back your hopes. chris: the president did make that point. he said the palestinians have to explain. he didn t say the palestinians need to say they stand for peace and will not ally themselves with hamas. we need to make clear we won t stand for a palestinian state built on terror. what the president did was the furtherrist thing from t
elements in the government and the military. as a mixed bag but it is a country with nuclear weapons. specifically would you support any cut in the $4 billion in aid? i haven t decided that yet but i don t think disengagement from pakistan is in america s best interest. chris: u.s. operations in libya passed the 60 days mark on friday. under the war powers act the president has to get a renewal of support from congress or has to start pulling out troops. are you going to do anything about that? i don t know what we are going to do on the war powers act. the administration is going to have to decide whether it thinks it was triggered and we will have to respond to that. nor mccain has been to beed nghazi and is keeping us informed what he thinks ought to be done. we would like the administration cheered up. chris: senate democratic leader are harry reed says he
question, is president obama wrong? well, he certainly i think made a mistake in this comprehensive speech about the middle east. i mean everybody knows that the 67 lines are just not tenable. there have been a lot of movement around in the last 44 years. everybody knows the palestinians are not in the end going to have a right to return and it wouldn t even be a jewish state if that happened and everybody knows that jerusalem in the end is not going to be divided. i think the old max up that the parties to the conflict need to be the parties to the settlement still holds. the u.s. ought not to be trying to push israel into a deal that is not good for israel and i think the president made a mistake and has been sort of trying to back track since then as well, he should. chris: some senate republicans say they will introduce a plan, a resolution on the senate floor opposing the obama plan. will you push that for a vote in the senate and if this isn t
we don t pay that on time. here is the corner quite frangly that representative boehner and others have painted themselves into. you need to have done this at the beginning of this crisis before getting this close. what has happened now is that they have allowed the timing to get so close to the end they may not be able to do the cain plan or the four things that i talked about. they may have allowed themselves to get into a corner where they may be forced to and i still call that they should have seen this coming which they did but it didn t move fast enough. chris: but even your plan yes. chris: and let s say even if they had been able to take care of this sooner the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says that your are idea and you are not the only one that offered it, is too dangerous. even if the debt is paid there is the issue of market confidence and how the market would respond to the risk of default or even the default on nondebt obligation.