the president missed an opportunity. his budget doesn t address long term issues that face the country where most of the spending is in the entitlement programs, social security, medicare, medicaid. we are not going to get a deal on think of those issues absence the president s leadership. the debt commission he appointed made recommendations on reforming those entitle programs and he has not embraced any of those. greta: except the debt commission the reason why is three republicanss and three democrats and one other person was one of president obama s appointees didn t like it. that s why. the republicans have a perfect chance to adopt everything in the debt commission when you come up with your idea. my guess is you will see the republicans adopt some get growth why not adopt all of them? erskine bowles and senator simpson, nobody is happy with
the president missed an opportunity. his budget doesn t address long term issues that face the country where most of the spending is in the entitlement programs, social security, medicare, medicaid. we are not going to get a deal on think of those issues absence the president s leadership. the debt commission he appointed made recommendations on reforming those entitle programs and he has not embraced any of those. greta: except the debt commission the reason why is three republicanss and three democrats and one other person was one of president obama s appointees didn t like it. that s why. the republicans have a perfect chance to adopt everything in the debt commission when you come up with your idea. my guess is you will see the republicans adopt some get growth why not adopt all of them? erskine bowles and senator simpson, nobody is happy with
$1 trillion expense here when it comes to health care reform. they say do it smaller, piecemeal or start all over. we ve already heard from mitch mcconnell and here is how he put it. americans don t know how else to say it. they don t want the massive bill. it s perfectly clear. they want common sense, bipartisan reforms that lower costs and they want us to refocus our energy on creating jobs and the economy. they have had enough of this year-long effort to get a win for the democratic party at any price to the american people. reporter: so that, of course, coming from the senate minority leader. is it the white house surprised by this? no, they re not surprised by this. the main message here is not so much to the republicanss, it s to those moderate democrats. it s to those who are getting a little queasy, a little nervous about supporting this legislation. the president essentially trying to give them some political cover, if you will, and say,
and good ooempk. evening. better late than never. two top republicans today getting up the nerve to debunk trump s thry now initially, only republicanss to stand up. they met with top fbi ab presidd evhing right and now paul ryan, who saw that same classified material, was at the briefing is king his silence togowdy is right. do you agree with him? normally, i don t like to comment on classified briefle i think his initial assessmentu. and the speaker of the hois the republican chairman of the burr, who by the way, isinvesti
one of the reasons they don t believe us is because of the way the last election was covered,pl which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. that is not surprising given that there is no political diversity in the press corps. politico did a study on this. how many registered republicanss in the white house press corps? zero. that s a huge problem, don t you think? i m a registered independent. i think it is important to be independent neutral when you are covering and neutral politics in the white house. as a reporter whenn you are covering politics and the white house. tucker: i agree with you. do you think that the people covering the white house are objective? i do. tucker: do you read their twitter feeds? i can t speak for every member of the association. i think it is very important to tucker: let s be real. let me answer the question. i think it is very important to be neutral. i think it is important to report the facts, it is important to repo