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>> hold on. $3.5 -- >> unlike other pandering candidates. >> im trying to get this down, ok? >> go ahead, write. >> look. youre making harold nervous. >> im just reading. >> can i finish writing this? youre telling me the president got $3.5 million in campaign contributions from whom? >> private equity. >> private equity. ok. im sorry. go ahead. i got that down now. all right. i was a little confused, given the strategy. >> youre very slow. >> i am. >> did a big rock fall on your head when you w...

Service paying $5.5 billion every single year, which is really quite crazy. no other entity in america comes anywhere close to having that kind of burden. what we did is two things. we reduced the $5.5 to $3.5, but we also said the postal service can take $3.5 billion -- $3 billion, im sorry, out of the fund, the employee retirement fund, to pay for current retiree benefits, which means they will be spending $5.5 billion less on retiree health care right now. that is a significant step forward a...

What happens to that money in the senate bill? >> we made significant progress on that, ed. what happens is, as you pointed out, right now the postal service paying $5.5 billion every single year, which is really quite crazy. no other entity in america comes anywhere close to having that kind of burden. what we did is two things. we reduced the $5.5 to $3.5, but we also said the postal service can take $3.5 billion -- $3 billion, im sorry, out of the fund, the employee retirement fund, to pay fo...

But your point is well taken, yes. >> now, if the president takes this $8.5 bill whereon and there is going to be a hole in medicare, tell take care of the menu of options for medicare advantage this year. is it next year in november, when they get the list what have they can get, thats when the cuts go into effect? >> october, actually. 80% of this reimbursement occurs this year, before the election this year. theres another 2 years, its a phase-down. but the vast majority is before the electio...

G.o.p. >> i have zero doubt in my mind of two things. mitt romney will govern as a conservative and number two, he will be head and shoulders better than the guy who is in the white house right now. >> but rick santorum is in the game. bowling for his political life ahead of wisconsins primary tuesday. he has been stumping hard in badger state. the super pac that supports him recently doubled the purchase of tv time. >> romney is spending $3.5 to $4 million, were not. we have a secret weapon. im...

Peakedded at $3.5 for bush and they are still going higher for obama and no interest on the part of the media that prices have gone under 100 percent under president obama. imagine if they went up 100 percent under george bush. >>neil: if you go after one go after all, whatever mitt romney or rick santorum said a dozen years ago, go after this president and whether he has been inconsistant but my point, fair is fair, right is right and it does not seen fair for the media to obsess with a firm pr...

disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying theres a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because thats what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due...

The presidents budget has $1 of revenue for $2.5 of spending cuts. this can be done. >> republicans quick to respond to news of the presidents proposal. mitch mcconnell appearing on cbs yesterday, shifted the blame to senate democrats. >> senate democrats havent passed a budget in 1,000 days, even though the law requires it. the only vote we have in a senate that refuses to follow the law would be a house-passed budget and the presidents budget. i intend to offer the presidents budget for him, s...

The presidents budget has $1 of revenue for every $2.5 of spending cuts. it can be done when we work together. >> welcome back to "morning joe" at 22 past the hour. greece is on its way to getting $170 billion in bailout money after its parliament approved harsh new austerity measures. the crucial vote passed as rioters angry with drastic cuts clashed with police and torched buildings across athens. we have the editor and chief of "town and country" magazine. the burning question is will the shi...

♪ and i will always love you ♪ i will always love you ♪ i will always love you >> houston should be at the grammys tonight with the rest of the superstars. instead her life ended saturday in a beverly hills hotel room. an autopsy has been performed on her body. it can take as long as eight weeks to get the toxicology results back. investigators say a body guard found houston unconscious in a bath tab. tmz is reporting that pill bottles were found at the scene. this is also courte...