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From the "x factor." shes said to be deciding between two rival casinos. whoever has the most money gets her. lets talk money with that guy. >> brian: not only is unemployment at 7.9%, there is record poverty. 46.2 million people says yeah, im poor. gas prices are soaring. the average now at 3.55 a gallon and more people are on food stamps than ever before. $47.7 million. you think with people being down on their luck, the president would do everything he could to support charities. but you woul...

S&p reviewed the same subprime mortgage data as the rest of the market, including u.s. government officials, who in 2007 possibly state -- problems in the subprime market appear to be contained. basically were not guilty. we did the same thing and youre picking on us. >> exactly. thats why people are saying there has to be something more to this. >> is it possible that this suit from the justice department tries to lay all of the blame for the crash of 08 on wall street? demonizing wall street? ...

We have seen growth, unemployment is going -- im sorry, employment is going up. wed like it to be faster but its going up. and i think a lot of the economic numbers are, if anything, surprisingly on the high side. theres some wins in front of it. its not smooth. but its undeniable were entering a growth faces at this opinion. its weak. theres some worry it could back-bend and i think thats why the central bank is keeping the extraordinary measure of going, which i frankly approve of, even though...

To keep the momentum on their side. i think raul is right about that and offer a moving target. its harder to focus on campaigning against any one proposal for the other side and the jurys out about whether this will work. the white house points to the beginning of obamas first term when he successfully used that momentum off of the 08 election and off of his original inauguration to accomplish many of the domestic policy successes of the first term right away. the difference is that was a democ...

West. its biggest sponsor is iran which has threatened toee tal kwraeut against israel and its allies, which of course includes us. hezbollah is a shiite muslim group based in lebanon founded in 1982 after the israeli invasion of lebanon. hezbollah has close links to iran and syria relying on both for support, and the u.s. designated it a terrorist group in 1997. our next guest says hezbollah has climbed back up the list of immediate threats facing our country. matthew levitt is director of coun...

Suggesting that we need more money from the american people essentially. >> we have a spending problem not a revenue problem. revenues this year are anticipated to be above the year they were in fiscal 08. they are going to be over $2.9 trillion over $2 trillion. spending has increased more rapidly than revenues. the tax revenues we got as a result of raising the rates on the top two brackets was eaten up about it congress in one spending bill proposed about it administration, the sandy relief m...

Every gun control scheme imaginable. alice, do you think its a mistake for the nra not to recognize that the president has come out in support of the 08 decision by the supreme court, has now shown a recreational picture of shooting skeet, to say the president supports the second amendment, we trust that he supports the second amendment, now we just need to come to a common place on what gun violence control means in this country? >> well, i think in terms of them releasing the picture, i think ...

Been getting a lot of criticism from the right about, what his affiliation is to guns. in 08, when the supreme court upheld an individuals right to have access to their own personal firearm through the second amendment, the president supported that. recently, the president has been talking about the fact that he shoots skeet at camp david. lot of people snickered at that, criticized the fact that doesnt happen most likely. then the white house releases this picture. david, whats the reaction bee...

Even up from when this article was printed on "politico." pretend for a moment that she does run and she wins. how would a hillary clinton presidency differ from president obamas? >> well, i dont think you can really answer that until you know that the issues are that she confronts. what we know is that she is a passionate supporter of diplomacy, of development, that she certainly has strong relationships across the aisle, that she in the 112 countries that shes visited as secretary of state and...

Well as hillary clinton. blake, a lot of speculation about whats coming next. we know over this weekend hopefully theres some super bowl time. hopefully theres going to be some not setting alarm clock, you know, for next week. where do you see her reemerging? like, whats the time line of her taking time off? >> i think one thing thats really interesting to look at is when bill clinton ran for president in 1992, the first time, he actually did not announce his run until october of 91. that was a ...