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Their own foreign aid companies independently of the government. the government is broken not just because people scream at each other in washington. you have right wingers abandoned by a supreme court thinking money makes the country run. government is unattractive to young people. its not going to get attractive to young people until we get reform. the only way to do that is get democrats into congress. >> im going brag on you. part of what i thought was effective is his idea is we have to hav...

Fire on the feet of lawmakers here. he just tweeted out "the bush tax cuts lapsed at midnight last night. every republican voting for senate bill is cutting taxes and keeping his or her pledge ." something that i think republicans were mentioning already. you can see that the time remaining there is at zero. and we are at 2:05 to 139. you can see the no votes there ticking down. the time can be extended for this vote and apparently there are a number of lawmakers who are waiting until the very e...

First. >> that sucks. i have a lot more better things to do with that money than give it someplace else. >> taxpayers are clearly worried. it deny next guest reaction from florida republican congressman, good friend, allen west. start with the -- some news we heard about an hour ago, that the leadership was actually calling you guys back to d.c. have you heard that? i heard it was 6:30 a.m. sunday. is that accurate? >> you are correct. its good to be with you, eric. we had a conference call this...

That two handguns have been reported. and just the timing here to the both of you, i mean sandy hook elementary, we were getting some sense of timing earlier that they were hearing shots around 9:00, and 9:05 is when the kindergarten starts and when they gather. so thats consistent with what we were reporting earlier. again, grades 1 through 4, this is a town about 60 miles from new york city. it covers, newtown about 60 square miles, its the fifth larger town in the state. back to chris and cli...

Thing. >> i didnt see the picture. >> its a picture. >> looks good. they did a good job. >> hour hard is it to take a picture. >> hmm. >> what? >> did you look at this picture carefully. >> carefully? >> because im not sure and correct me if im wrong, but i think i see a nipple. >> you might not be getting cards with nipples, but you would rather get a christmas card than a bill. both are lame. the american greeting card association expects 1.6 billion card this is year and thats a lot of trees ...

Entitlements. remember that? >> yeah, sure. >> gretchen: if he, as many people argue, will be concerned about his legacy in his second term, why wouldnt he just stay in washington and take a leadership position and get something done? >> if he were more concerned about policy than politics, he actually could have supported president george w. bush when he did entitlement reform and immigration reform. in both of those things, the democrats and some republicans made sure that those bills didnt ha...

Superstores, it has to be a national market. it has to be a real market where market forces bring the prices down. you guys should be working on that stuff. >> can i ask you a question? >> you dont want to talk about it. >> no, that sounds fine with me. >> okay. i just wanted to make sure and get you record on that. >> its boring at 7:05 in the morning, but yeah. >> 6:05. >> it would be okay at 6:05, but were asleep by now. does barack obama have a mandate? did he run on a platform that gives hi...

Of the year, but real reform should wait. across the capitol, democratic majority leader harry reid made his position as well in the senate that the american people reelected president obama knowing he supports higher tax rates for the rich, so he thinks thats where negotiations should start. >> the president campaigned around the country saying we know what is wrong with the fiscal problem. we need revenue. that was the issue. >> there is a lot to talk about when it comes to the way around the ...

She would consider running for office and has acted in democratic -- been active in democratic politics f. she runs, shell have to move back to kentucky. >> brian: speaking of kentucky, city council race there ends because one candidates wife did not vote. robert mcdonald says his wife works nights at the hospital and goes to nursing school and takes care of their three kids. >> steve: shes busy. >> brian: he was supposed to wake her up from a nap on tuesday to go vote. but he decided to let her...

Cliff, the tone that he sets, theyre going to be watching this very closely. guys, indeed were looking at a lower open, again this morning on wall street. back to you. >> steve: all right. sandra, live at wall street. we thank you very much. youll be able to see the presidents comments today live from the east room at 1:05 eastern time. new york city will begin rationing gas for this first time since jimmy carter was president. its in response to the gas crisis at thank shut down hundreds of sta...