trying to hint at it saying i m not wedded to every part of my plan. you talk to republicans and they say, if he is willing to do structural changes to social security and medicare, and the structural changes they all point to, the first one has to do with age, they simply that the president goes along with raising the age on social security, which won t will he ll lose half of democrats, 100 democrats in the house, he ll get almost all the revenues he wants. assuming that minimum floor is $800 billion, the president would have almost took with boehner and that deal on july 11. that s going to be the dance here. right? what s the most the president s willing to do on entitlements and how many democrats does he lose and how many republicans can boehner keep if he gets something on entitlements as he moves up the revenue number. now, while we ve all been sitting here and talking about the fiscal cliff and all of that urgency, another story that is brewing in washington, brian and
bill mcinturff, fred yang, i ve got to leave it there. gentlemen, always good, i always wish i had more time. this is a great poll. people spending all their time reading before the debate. the market rebound from today s drop. plenty corporate earnings come out today. c nbls s becky quick with the market rundown. i can t overdo the cross talk or bower is going kill me. we ll go through quickly, i m fascinated by the poll numbers too. this morning, a struggle for wall street, looking at mixed markets. but the dow and s&p are lower after we got earnings from caterpillar this morning. caterpillar, we knew, was going to be weak. they warned us about that as recently as a month ago. this morning, the revenue number came in light and they lowered their guidance for 2013 once again. that s the big concern. we spoke with the ceo, doug observ observ observ observer hom. when you start looking at what s happening in the rest of in europe, that s the biggest concern. he does say that europ
growth rate in 48 which helped him get elected. he was doing pretty well economically. but you re dead right. you go back over the steps. why didn t he back simpson bowles and say, look, i hate it, it does stuff i don t like, but we have to start somewhere. i had 11 votes. i wish i had 14. but i don t care, you got my vote. he could have done that. he could have found some way of not screwing around last august trying to up the revenue number from $800 billion to $1.2 trillion bol oxing up the deal he had with boehner. i know it was flragile. i talked to a moderate democrat and he said the number one thing we could do for the market for confidence for the consumer, for the investor, for the retiree or about to retire, is a long-term debt reduction plaqn agreed to y this government, meaning the house and the senate and the president, agree to a deal to stick to reduce the debt. it seems to me that would just
the who stuck with us through the process, a truly wild ride and absolutely, despite the experiences over the years, i could have never predicted either the low points or the high points. it was sort of amazing. some key elected officials i want to thank. linda upmeyer in iowa who stayed with us through the whole process from the period when we were supposedly dead to rebounding to the massive weight of advertising. linda was spectacular in campaigning across the state of iowa. and speaker paulson of iowa was a tremendous help and speaker bill o brian in new hampshire, a model of balancing the budget the right way. in new hampshire they get the revenue number and they then appropriate up to the revenue number. and so they don t start with a
around who stuck with us through the whole process which was a truly wild ride and absolutely despite all of these experiences i had over the years i could never predict either the low points offer or the high points. it was amazing and astonishing. key elected officials i want to thank. i talked to ma jort leader linda in iowa courageous and stayed with us through the whole process from the period when we were supposedly dead to when we rebounded to the massive weight of advertising and linda was just spectacular and solidly campaigning all across the state of iowa. i also want to thank speaker paulson, a tremendous help, and speaker bill o brien in new hampshire who worked very hard and by the way is a model of balancing the budget the right way in new hampshire. they first get the revenue number and they then appropriate up to the revenue number. so they don t start with a