House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan sounds off on debt battle, the Boehner plan and the key to an agreement.

"Every year under the Boehner bill we will spend more and we will borrow more and debt will grow. We're at $14 trillion for national debt now, Boehner plan in 10 years we'll be at $21 trillion," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) tells President Obama to use the "constitutional option" and raise the debt ceiling on his own.

"I talked to one of John Boehner's staff people a little while ago, I said 'what's going to happen?' He said 'you know, we're going to get the score we want and we're going to pass the thing.' But if you talk to the White House people as I was also doing, they don't think the bill will get out of the House," Howard Fineman told MSNBC.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: "The fact of the matter is the president has spoken in platitudes about this, thrown numbers out there. But we have not seen a plan in writing from the president. Now, that doesn't give an excuse to Republicans or Democrats in Congress not to come to an agreement. But I've seen here in New Jersey that there is no

"We just come from different world views," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) summed up.

The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman joins "The Last Word" to parse through the latest exchanges between the White House and Speaker Boehner.

"Nobody believes that the Boehner proposal is anything but a big wet kiss to the right-wing -- and I mean the tea party. That's what I mean. "It's too bad his caucus is being run by such a small number of people," Harry Reid said at a press conference on Wednesday.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney accuses FOX News reporter Ed Henry of "creating a thing for Fox" when he asks why the president hasn't released a debt ceiling plan.

Bill O'Reilly: "America is bankrupting itself with an entitlement philosophy that does little."

CNN's Jessica Yellin talks to White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer about what is next in the debt debate.

Charles Krauthammer: "The president has portrayed himself as the grown-up in the room, and all these children are squabbling. He summons the leaders of Congress to the White House on the tantrum he gave on Friday night very imperiously as if he's the only one who's acting in the national interest. And yet through all of this, through months and

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