Corker Won't Rule Out 2016 Prez Bid (Video)

Monday, February 18, 2013

Republican Senator Bob Corker, appearing on What America Thinks, was asked about his interest in seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. Corker left the door open to a run by responding: "We'll see what happens. I really feel like right now making a difference in the Senate and you never know what happens down the road.”

What America Thinks is a nationally syndicated television show hosted by Scott Rasmussen. It airs on 61 stations nationwide. Find a station near you.

Corker also said:

• We’re going to spend 45 trillion dollars of the viewing public's money over the next decade, and to cut only 1.2 trillion dollars over the next decade certainly is something that's very simple for us to do and we need to do a lot more of that."

• "Let's face it, the money is in entitlements. That's where the trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities exist. And at some point, we got to do entitlement reforms that are necessary to keep these programs strong. And if we don't do that by the way, then there's going to be massive cuts in discretionary spending. We would have to raise the debt ceiling right now if Congress never passed another spending bill just because of the entitlement spending. So that's what we have to get under control."

• "Even with the budget control act, we didn't really cut spending -- we cut the growth in spending. Washington is the only place in the world where cutting growth is cutting spending. Well, that's not the way it works back home with all your viewers, it doesn't work in my household that way."

See the full interview here.

Former DNC Chair Howard Dean appeared on the show as well. He said “somebody has to tell the middle class that either your taxes are going to go up or your programs are going to get cut or else we're going to go into financial oblivion, and nobody really wants to tell them that.“  See the full Dean interview.