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The economy and everybody knows this doesn t work, the biggest let me ask, jobs aside, chris, we know this is the number one thing on the minds of so many americans, is they want to get back to work or at least work up to what their capacity is and take care of their families and live within their means or even improve their means, the great american dream, remember? let me ask you a prediction quickly before we go. matt, what s going it happen and when are we going to see a deal? will we see a deal? you re at polar opposite sides right here and a whole bunch of people in washington have to agree. matt, will it happen? i think the politicians are going to cut a deal and we re going to find out the world is not going to care and we re going to be downgraded anyway because we continue to live beyond our means. jamie: thanks, matt. chris? first, i think you put me and hath in a room and banged it out three weeks ago and playing golf by now. agreed. second, there will be a ....
Aria, and created a boom in the economy and everybody knows this doesn t work, the biggest let me ask, jobs aside, chris, we know this is the number one thing on the minds of so many americans, is they want to get back to work or at least work up to what their capacity is and take care of their families and live within their means or even improve their means, the great american dream, remember? let me ask you a prediction quickly before we go. matt, what s going it happen and when are we going to see a deal? will we see a deal? you re at polar opposite sides right here and a whole bunch of people in washington have to agree. matt, will it happen? i think the politicians are going to cut a deal and we re going to find out the world is not going to care and we re going to be downgraded anyway because we continue to live beyond our means. jamie: thanks, matt. chris? first, i think you put me and hath in a room and banged it out three weeks ago and ....
We ve heard about in various forms don t provide for any new taxes and this is something that republicans wanted very much and this is something that democrats came up with, yet, are we closer to coming up with something everybody can agree with or are we right back where we started? well, first, let me just say that the democrats and the white house have moved so 910th 9/10s of the way, there s no new revenues in the plan. the cuts in the plan are going to hurt a lot of people who i care about and the democrats care about. so, the republicans to say that the white house and democrats don t want to make a deal is farce. it s time for the republicans to take yes for an answer and move on. what they want to do, they want to tie a debt limit increase to amending the united states constitution. they want to say, if you don t amend the united states constitution, we re going to drive the economy off a cliff. jamie: chris, what s the ....
They re looking for. at this point, is that possible when we re looking at the august 2nd deadline? joining us to talk about, consultant for the republican national senatorial committee and chris conn and former aide to chuck schumer. great to have you along. let me start first with you, matt. i want to ask about the august 2nd deadline. how real do you think that is? people sitting at home, if they knew the procedural mechanisms that go on to get anything debate or passed, we re there already. i think that august 2nd deadline is the the date we have to your ducks in a row and we have to be on a way to a deal. i m worried that we re dealing with a white house that doesn t really want a deal because this is their opening in their reelection campaign. jamie: chris, at this point, both of the proposal ....