opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america s finances for a decade, for 15 years or 20 years. if we re willing to seize the moment. what that would require would be some shared sacrifice and a balanced approach that says we re going to make significant cuts in domestic spending. and i have already said i m willing to take down domestic spending to the lowest percentage of our overall economy since dwight eisenhower. it also requires cuts in defense spending. and i ve said that in addition to the $400 billion that we ve already cut from defense spending we re willing to look for hundreds of billions more. it would require us taking on health care spending. and that includes looking at medicare and finding ways that we can stabilize the system so that it is available not just for this generation but for future generations. and it would require revenues. it would require, even as we re asking the person who needs a student loan or the senior citizen o
health me tell you the problem, the problem is one person s plan, that is the problem. mr. ryan is a smart guy, too smart for his own good. neil: did they poison the well? guest: what they have done, i hear people including on this network who say that ryan should be the republican nominee, that is a geld water election, this is, let me tell you something, right new there is a good chance republicans will win the national and lose the house. that is how much they screwed this up and i am telling you, this is a problem of bad, of not engaging in real leadership. the public on the debt, they have had it with the debt, that is the issue. but you have the republican leadership going out and saying we have to cave in own that, we have to cave on the phony budget cuts. they are always caving in as they did on health care and they will lose. the democrats love this. and the democrats are in the for solving anything. all they for is getting
on the individual mandate. yesterday he kind of defended it. today if he doesn t like it he s in trouble with his comments over the paul ryan plan. so, you know, he s running a terrible campaign his first few days out of the get a andate an too much baggage. he is not presidential and will never be president. what did you think of gingrich saying he thought the ryan plan was radical? it s radically nonsensical but radical means to the roots and it is to the roots of conservative ideology that continues to poison the well of common sense and also civic responsibility to those who are most vulnerable. to call paul ryan s plan anything but what it is, an attempt to up the ante for those who are rich, to give tax cuts to those who don t deserve them, and then those who are rich continue to get richer and those who are poor continue to be poorer. it sounds like a cliche but it s certainly real and i think here again i agree with joan. i think newt s personal life, the horrible choices
than s what i believe. i don t think he needs to do this. i think that the sad percentage of people who will not vote for a black president are already in the republican column. he s not widening his appeal. and look. today let s move away from the issue of race. today he had to flip flop again on the individual mandate. yesterday he kind of defended it. today if he doesn t like it he s in trouble with his comments over the paul ryan plan. so, you know, he s running a terrible campaign his first few days out of the get a and i ate he has too much baggage. he is not presidential and will never be president. what did you think of gingrich saying he thought the ryan plan was radical? it s radically nonsensical but radical means to the roots and it is to the roots of conservative ideology that continues to poison the well of common sense and also civic responsibility to those who are most vulnerable. to call paul ryan s plan anything but what it is, an attempt to up the ante for those
rumsfeld himself released, this why? because, one, it was so bizarre. and i think it was given to him like you said by saddam hussein. and it was meant to illustrate, according to rumsfeld, the syrian regime s barberrism, the al assaad. bill: the old allah sad is now dead. he wanted to poison the well. disam wanted to poison the syrian well give it to rumsfeld and say these are the kind of people you are dealing with. syria as an enemy of iraq at the time. iraq was at war with iran. the nation was trying to get syria out of lebanon. we had diplomatic relations with iraq. but it illustrates perfectly the morass that is the middle east. what would the video bill: very disturbing. what would the video look like of saddam hussein and his atrocities if we knew then what we know now. bill: i m not so bad. look at these women biting the snakes and killing the puppies.