senator patty murray and congressman paul ryan may be close to a budget deal but minorities on both sides, house democrats and senate republicans, have some concerns. democrats are especially worried about what this deal might mean to the middle class. maryland democratic congressman chris van hollen is the top democrat on the house budget committee. always good to see you, congressman. good morning. good to see you, chris. good morning to you. i think you know the reports are the deal could include cuts to federal worker pensions. is that a line in the sand for you? well, first of all, there s no agreement. secondly, i would put the chances of an agreement right now at maybe 50-50. and there are lots of issues, and you ve just been reporting on some of them. part of it is the simple matter of equitiy. there s no reason that federal employees should take it on the chin as part of this agreement when federal employees have disproportionately contributed to the deficit reduction ef
reduction efforts over the last couple of years have come from federal employees. and you represent a lot thoefz federal employees, so is that a deal breaker for you? absolutely. you cannot be asking federal employees to bear the share of the burden that they re asking for here as part of an agreement when you re not asking, for example, agri businesses that get huge taxpayer subsidies to have a contribution toward the deal. so we should be replacing the sequester. i ve had a piece of legislation in to do that for three years. we ve tried to get a vote on it and have been denied. but as we do that, you can t take this out on just one segment of individuals. you ve got to have equitiy in this. so there are lots of things that are still up in the air as part of this negotiation. including unemployment benefits. and i want to play the republican argument from senator rand paul against an extension. here it is. a do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they re paid f
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memorial day is the unofficial start of the summer. the presidential race is just entering its second stage. it s the time when campaigns try to hammer home negative attacks, now reinforced by super pac ads. we re living in a time when spin outweighs substance. when narratives can unfortunately matter much more than facts. and summer is the time when we see the campaigns try to make these attacks stick. now, on this show we try to play it straight, criticizing, for example, the democrats claims that republicans are conducting a war on women. while at the same time calling out conservatives for saying that president obama is waging a war on religion. the problem is when we demonize people we disagree with, using fear and hate instead of reason. well, tonight we want to tell you exactly what doesn t add up. the biggest three myths of the political season as we head into the summer campaign stretch. outfront tonight, errol lewis and cnn contributor, and my bride, margaret hoove