we ll get the democrat side of the debate when debbie wasserman schultz joins us live 15 minutes from now. the search for a missing new hampshire girl, police have received hundreds of leads, so why haven t they issued an amber alert? we ll hear from a criminal profiler about that. also the battle of the dna in the amanda knox appeal. we ll tell you what one expert is expected to say. but first, a look at the plan put forward by harry reid. i love that my daughter s part fish.
panel, that was his idea with mcconnell. so this is this is the compromise. these two that boehner and reid did a lot of negotiating on this bill. yes. that s right. and that s why he s not being honest when he says that we don t want to negotiate. the truth is, harry reid agreed to that plan until the president of the united states, president obama, called him and said, absolutely not. and that s when reid came up with that other plan that he s going to propose. let s look at that plan. you know what that plan cuts? it cuts moneys that we never intended to expend on the drawdown in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. that s not a cut. it s more of kabuki theater or more of these budgetary tricks that the american people are disgusted with. and that s the reason we re in this problem in the first place. it s about debt. that s the problem. can i ask you, then, in terms of what s going on behind the scenes, if you re accurate in telling us you ve got harry reid and john boehner ta
ceiling. the latest plan includes a debt limit increase of $2.4 trillion, matched equally in budget cuts. he uses senator mcconnell s plan to raise the debt limit in steps and adds no new revenues. joining me now, pat buchanan, also joining us democratic strategist and cnbc contributor morris reid. gentlemen, good morning. looking at this plan, isn t it nearly everything republicans have wanted? and if so, why is it expected to be doa in the house? it hasn t come over back over to the house yet. the house passed a bill last night, which the senate killed. one of the problems with harry reid s deal is the same one the representative just mentioned who was on the show, mr. grimm of new york, and that is that harry reid s bill contains a lot of fraud. if we get $1 trillion in cuts by not having war in iraq and afghanistan beyond when we re
been willing to allow for ending medicare as we know it, to be a part of in hany plan, increasin costs anywhere, piling all the pain on the backs of the middle class and working families. we recognize that we have to address our deficit and we know we can t allow our nation to default on our obligations. if you ve listened to people like congressman grimm and other tea party republican extremists like him, they have repeatedly said they don t seem to care whether the nation defaults. they don t understand that every major economist has said there will be dire consequences. we have obligations that we have already made. and raising the debt ceiling is imperative so that we don t default on those obligations. a grasp of that is imperative, but because they have the right wing and the extreme right wing in the republican party controlling things right now, it is not allowing what should
happen, which is compromise. do you see that extreme right wing stance, though, eroding in erm terms of ability to put through what they want, pat buchanan said there s only about ten tea party members of the house that really are digging in their heels. well, they were only able to get to 218 last night, and so they lost at least 20 of them members on a plan that was already extreme, to begin with. they have a battle going on in their own party right now between the right, the extreme right and the few remaining moderates that isn t allowing them to let their leaders lead and get this job done. and what they re doing is that they are leaving seniors who depend on social security payments twisting in the wind, they re causing our rank and file military to ask the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff whether they re going to