mike: one of the republican congressmen who met with the president last week was oklahoma s james langford who joint us now. congressman, thanks for joining us. great to talk to you again. great to see you again, governor. mike: when you met with the president you were one of the congressmen and specifically pressed him about a balanced budget. he didn t seem that interested, did he? he did not. i asked if we could find some common ground and sade one of the key areas would be on a balanced budget. we may disagree on the method but at least agree on the principal of our budget should balance. it was the crown jewel of the clinton administration they could work with a republican house to finally come to a balanced put it an budget. he reiterated he doesn t feel like a balanced budget is a goal and i can t imagine simply saying as a nation we will spend what we have and not try to overspend. mike: listen to a clip from the president during 2008 back in the campaign when seemed
sake of balance. mike: one of the republican congressmen who met with the president last week was oklahoma s james langford who joint us now. congressman, thanks for joining us. great to talk to you again. great to see you again, governor. mike: when you met with the president you were one of the congressmen and specifically pressed him about a balanced budget. he didn t seem that interested, did he? he did not. i asked if we could find some common ground and sade one of the key areas would be on a balanced budget. we may disagree on the method but at least agree on the principal of our budget should balance. it was the crown jewel of the clinton administration they could work with a republican house to finally come to a balanced put it an budget. he reiterated he doesn t feel like a balanced budget is a goal and i can t imagine simply saying as a nation we will spend what we have and not try to overspend. mike: listen to a clip from the president during 2008 back in the camp
we had just taken down particular building complex and set it up strong point clear the area. joint u.s. afghan patrol. they went out there and like i said it was 116. the united states guys start doing the normal stuff and establishing strong points, building up defensive positions doing deliberate cleaning to make sure there are no more iudu s exhausting work when you are carrying all that body armor et cetera. the u.s. guys started their work. afghan guys went to bailing and went to sleep and stayed there the entire day. that was the first day i had been out there with them. i said is this typical or unusual? and they said, almost the same story everywhere in afghanistan i went. they said absolutely this is what they do every day. they don t any of the hard work. they let us do everything. they don t take part in the risk. we have to do that for them.
after nearly five hour, the teenager turned the gun on himself, just as police were breaking into the classroom. the gunman and five hostages were taken to a local hospital. no word on their condition. word coming in that a senior north korean official has begun a five-day visit to china. discussions with chinese leaders are expected to focus on the shelling of a south korean island and its nuclear program. joint u.s. and south korea military drills are on the agend a. the north saying the maneuvers could trigger an all-out war. washington wants china to help ease tension. for business news, tune to the fox news be network. i m ainsley earhardt. we turn to on the record with greta. thanks for watching. title of tw book says it all. kardashian konfidential. moments ago, kim, khloe and kourtney kardashian went on the record. okay, i have to introduce you but it seems silly. who doesn t know kim,
allies in asia on the crisis in the korean peninsula and consider a proposal by china to hold emergency talks and, condemning joint u.s. and south korean naval exercises, north korea calling the war games a pretext for aggression. reporter: china launches a bid to cool rising tensions between north korea and south korea calling for emergency talks but all eyes are on the north as it puts surface-to-surface missiles on the launch pad and a calling for 6 party talks north korea walked out of two years ago, in washington, john mccain, the top republican on the senate armed services committee says he doesn t give much weight to china s latest diplomatic move. i m only encouraged by action, which would bring north korea to a point where they would abandon their aggressive behavior and that can only really be done now by china, and