SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: President Obama's going to try again to reach a deal with Republicans to reduce the deficit, but the budget he's going to release next week might not go over so well with some Democrats. Administration officials say the president is going to propose changes to Social Security along with $400 billion in Medicare savings over 10 years. So, that is likely to upset some of the Democrats, those in his own party, who don't actually want to see those kinds of changes to the programs. Dan Lothian's at the White House. Dan, talk about this. He has a real delicate balancing act here. Clearly there's something that's got to be done. Republicans say, and even some Democrats say something's got to happen for Social Security and Medicare in order to balance the budget and to reduce the deficit.</s>DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right. But a lot of critics will say, look back to several years ago, when the president said that Social Security was something that he would not touch. It was part of the overall, you know, negotiations that the president had with John Boehner that failed last year. Entitlement programs, something that Republicans really wanted to get touched because they felt like that was the only way that you could really judge a real compromise. The president had to compromise on entitlement programs if he wanted to get anything else. So that's what the president is trying to do here. He wants to offer up these cuts to entitlement programs, but also there's a caveat that he'll only do that if he can get new taxes. And that's something that Republicans have resisted and will continue to resist -- Suzanne?</s>MALVEAUX: All right. Dan, we're going to be following it very closely. Always good to see you. Thank you, Dan. Actress Lynn Whitfield, she's the star of the big and small screen. Now she's hitting the stage playing the role of the mother of legendary singer Marvin Gaye. She's going to talk with us about the singer's controversial death and much more. She's joining us here right here in the studio, up next.
Obama Proposes Social Security, Medicare Cuts