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We havent been at since 1959. now, our expenses are far outside of hist toric norms and what im looking for in an agreement, alex, hopefully one that the president and the speaker come to where spending comes down sharply and also revenues do rise as a result of tax reform. and thats why im standing with and supporting the speaker in its negotiations. >> how about this, this i think it is clear the president is not going to completely back down on raising tax rates on the rich. is the gop just a...

>> and its compared to how much necessity pay to the nations total income taxes, irs figures show the top 1 percent take 16.9% but pay 36.7 of the nations income tax, top 35% take home more than 31% of the total income but pay almost 59% of total taxes. and finally, the top 10% take home a little over 43% of the total income but pay more than 70% of all income taxes. >> how can you make it fairer. 75%. 90%. pay all of it? will that finally be fair. >> as i it now stands, 90% of all americans pay...

Family. senate majority leader harry reid promised to vote some sometime but so far not laid out when that will be. the hold issue raises the question what is a fair share of taxes? are the rich gaining the system? getting soaked? or somewhere in between. here is national correspondent jim angle. >> president obama invokes tax fairness as campaign issue returning to the phrase fair share. >> ask the wealthiest americans to pay down the deficit and do their fair share. >> making sure that everybo...

According to one new poll. shannon bream has details from washington. what else are we learning, shannon from these new numbers. >> reporter: these numbers come to us from generation opportunity, a nonpartisan group aimed to veitch out to young voters that 18 to 29 group. theyre crunching official government data. theyre finding this. 1.7 million people in the age group were not factored into the unemployment numbers because they simply have given up looking for work. if they were factored in, u...

>> okay, well thats kind of a bold prediction in a state where recent polling shows him trailing governor mitt romney by a few points. governor romney may have found added momentum with his win, he captured 83% of the vote, all 20 delegates. rick santorum was not able to garner much support. his own camp admitted damage was done when he told a local newspaper speaking english should be a requirement for puerto row coto gain state hood. "rick santorum has a consistent show and when he w...

Slouch. a well respected doctor. is this fair? for a fair and balanced debate were joined by a family attorney and this is a heated issue and talking about 16.9% of kids in the country are obese, two million kids. thats extremely obese, should they be pulled out of the home and taken from their parents, absolutely not. a horrible idea. this is more to the west interest of the children equation than just the body mass and number on the scale. if you say to little billy, say, your parents are fat ...

Price at the pump stayed at the national average of $3.55 a gallon. that is up 38 cents in the last month. stocks were up. dow gained 67. s&p 500 added three. and nasdaq finished ahead 14. new home sales fell 16.9% in february. to the slowest pace on record. with 3 million foreclosures forecast nationwide this year, experts say a turn-around is not expected for at least three years. new communications between the u.s. and libya. do they explain recent statements about possible exile. but first, ...

It saved or created 3 to 4 million jobs and reduced unemployment 1.8% and the real issue is, i dont think the house republicans are not interested in kittying jobs and t -- creating jobs and the speaker said if the cuts in the spending bill we debated this week resulted in job losses, so be it. i dont think they care. i mean, we spent all week on this spending bill with all the amendments the republicans were proposing and they were about abortion and health care and epa regulations and i think ...

And taxpayer bailouts. president obama says the overhaul will make them a thing of the past. he says the bill gives uncle sam more tools to crack down on companies that could endanger the economy. breaking up is hard to do, especially in the troubled economy that were all experiencing. in fact, some couples are actually delaying divorce or even choosing to stay married during these tough economic times. divorce rates fell in 2008. the first year of the recession from 17.5 to 16.9%. thats accor...

Back in the "town square," the tug of war with out of work americans and the big banks who continue to run the show at the experience of americans. i spoke to afternoon with labor secretary about the administrations plan to try to get millions of unemployed people back on the job. madam secretary, three different numbers today. one looks fantastic. jobs added, 290,000. one is a little perplexing, the increase in the unemployment rate. and one is somewhat disturbing -- which is the increase in th...