in washington now in the growing office. this is a way for them to connect with both parties, someone that is both skilled in working the capitol and also a great communicator. susan malinari has been an anchor woman. happy weekend. you, too. coming up, the knicks all right, they re going to south beach. they head to south beach for a showdown with the miami heat. we ll have highlights. in the works package, we change the oil we change the filter. tire rotation, suspension, we make suspension checks. what we have here is the multi-point inspection. every time a vehicle comes into a ford dealership you ll be presented with one of these. we check the belts, hoses.
cutting benefits of the recipients right now. what they re talking about is changing programs in the future. in the end doesn t that do the same thing? i think the republicans are going to take that chance. look, john boehner just said it. the speaker went out there and said it. eric cantor has said it. paul ryan said when he unveils his budget there s going to be entitlement change. governor christie stood up and staked his claim. you re starting to see, look it s easy for christie. he s not doing it. he s telling them to do it. it s a different world now. this is a different world. susan malinari, i respect your judgment. here s the latest usa today gallup poll. 61% oppose cutting medicare spends. 64% oppose cutting social security spending. these are two-thirds votes. the american people when they elected him in the majority they wanted this deficit to come under control and wanted a little sanity and some validity. we re starting to see this with the cr, we re startin
think the american people are going to present them with re-election at the polls for showing that kind of leadership. i think what the last election about was leadership. every time, susan, or jeanne, every time we poll people. i did this back in i think 1971 working for a senator from utah. you poll people and ask them, what if they would like to see government cut? they say foreign aid and general government expenses. they want to see more money on education. they don t want any cuts in social security, anything like it. if you ask them, do they want to see government waste cut? they don t want real cuts. for example, i was just out doing something for alzheimer s this past week in las vegas trying to raise awareness with a big group out there working on research. imagine telling people who have an alzheimer s victim in their house and they re a caregiver, oh by the way, we re cutting spending on research that you re going to face another 20 or 30 years of alzheimer s hell in this
forward would be an economic and moral failure. wow. an economic and moral failure. not to go after social security and medicare. wait until we see what happens when they do go after it? welcome back to hardball. it appears there may be a deal coming to keep the united states government funded for another two weeks and open for business avoids voivoids a shutdown, the remains will they curb the big grows cost of programs like social security and medicare? susan is a former new york congresswoman. jean cummings, assistant manager at politico. jean, in analytical terms, watching these folks, i wonder if anybody who wants to get elected again in congress is willing to put their hand up and say, i want to cut the benefits going to people on social security. i want to cut the health benefits. you re not going to get dialysis for more than x many months. you re not going to get the artificial limb reworked after
ser seven years. you re not going to get the following. when it comes to the realities of cutting these programs, will any politician actually do it? i don t think we re going to see that any time soon, without a great deal of change here in washington, chris. for the reasons that you make clear. it s politically very, very difficult. you have down in florida representative adam west who has actually talked, he s a republican, a freshman, and he s talked more than many of them about some of the changes that would have to come to those programs. and the democrats are immediately targeting him and those are the very issues they re using against him. so it s going to take sea change i m sorry. remember paula hawkins was a senator from down there. never did anything wrong. she came out in public support of cutting for social security, got blown away. jeremiah denton. it was the only issue, susan, you were in the house, that you could be beaten for. vote to cut social security, vote t