makes more sense to talk to a republican than a democrat since republicans have had to right the book and democrats for a long time now have not had to worry about that. steve schmidt joins us now. steve, does it make you happy to see fist yelling at democrats? make t me a little bit happy. makes me happy that the president s put a budget forward where we re going to have some reality when we talk about what we re going to do with these entitlement programs so they re around in the next generation and when you see the congressman from wisconsin speaking tr, i think he s engaging in almost sheer demagoguery. let s see what the president s proposal is and hopefully, there s an ability to work across party lines to come up with a solution to strengthen these programs in the face of the democratic challenges and pressures they re under. i understand you are sympathetic to cutting entitlements.
like this split? i think republicans would like to see agreement that gets the country on to a sound, fiscal footing. which includes many, many problems that we have to deal with. but part of those problems, the package of problems that we have to deal with are the cost of these entitlement programs, medicare, social security. republicans don t want to see these programs go away. we don t want there to be a country without a social safety net. but we have to change these programs that were founded in the middle of the last century and update them so they can be solvent and applicable through the 21st century. if republicans want that aim, they rejected the president s budget out of hand without even seeing it, knowing that the left is giving the president grief on this. if the prosecutor is offering that, are republicans shouldn t
assassinations. no employee should engage in political assassination. so wean the church committee expose and the president s direct order, the instructions seemed to be kind of clear, right? the cia s an organization for spying in other countries, not killing people in other countries. how is is that working out the national security correspondent for the new york times just today published an account of the ways our government has been killing people since 9/11 without always admitting to it. because mark is a real on the ground reporter not just a blow hard like me who pontificates about things like me in print, one of the things we get from his account is a ton of new detail like we ve never had before and some has big political implications. some doesn t and it s just amazing stuff to know. for for example, the first early model predator drones. not just to do surveillance, but
magazines and the capacity and if that limit had still been in place, more children would be alive at sandy hook elementary today. i mean, i absolutely agree. if there weren t assault weapons the nra likes to use the excuse that people will hurt people, whether they have a gun or not. and even at the hearing that i went to in hartford, they said if they don t have a gun they ll use something like a hammer. and my reply to them is i ve never seen 26 people die by hammer before. susan ludwig, it thank you very much for joining us tonight. and thank you for sharing with us what you ve had to go through there. okay. thank you. coming up, the evolution of the president of the united states, and america on marriage equality. and in the rewrite, a tribute to who was right about the defense of marriage act in 1996. [ male] you know that guy that drives that limousine.
place, more children would be alive at sandy hook elementary today. i mean, i absolutely agree. if there weren t assault weapons the nra likes to use the excuse that people will hurt people, whether they have a gun or not. and even at the hearing that i went to in hartford, they said if they don t have a gun they ll use something like a hammer. and my reply to them is i ve never seen 26 people die by hammer before. susan ludwig, it thank you very much for joining us tonight. and thank you for sharing with us what you ve had to go through there. okay. thank you. coming up, the evolution of the president of the united states, and america on marriage equality. and in the rewrite, a tribute to who was right about the defense of marriage act in 1996. th the e to show google users what they ve been missing on bing. let s bing it on. [fight bell: ding, ding] how many here are google users?