Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette Journal

Guests:
US Senator Harry Reid – Democratic Majority Leader
Pundits:
Thursdays special pundit panel Randi Thompson, political analyst and MarleneLockard, Capital Strategies

"(We wanted) to see if the President would be willing to sit down and talk about how to solve these problems putting everything on the table. We need to put all entitlements on the table. We have to make sure we look at all domestic discretionary spending, defense spending, what their tax plans are for the future of this country. Revenues. Put everything on the table and talk about it. But at this stage the President has been unwilling to do that. "

- US Senator Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, on what the Democratic Leadership wants to do to solve the huge looming fiscal crisis of Medicare and Medicaid.