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Washington d.c. is with the rest of the country. >> dave: its certainly not about merit. according to one report, this is the least productive congress since the 1940s in terms of the amount of bills theyve passed that have gone into law. lets talk about some, joe biden, for example, gets a raise 225 to now $231,000. we move on to a couple of others, if we can spin through to give you an example. john boehner increase of $1,000, so theyre not enormous raises, they are fairly mottdest, right, pet...

My son wants you to come, evacuate." and i said no, dad is not evacuating, mom, our black is not evacuating so i stayed home but all of a sudden the flooding happened and i was getting really nervous and there was no way to communicate except through facebook. so my sister along with other women in our community katie and jessica created a facebook group to reach out and just let people know what was gotten on in rock away and then we quickly realized that the most important thing rock away need...

We were writing peoples addresses. the true heros are the volunteers that came down from brooklyn and other parts of queens that werent damaged in manhattan. they came down and they were willing to do anything. so we would just literally handing out post-its go to 225 beechwood. go in this address and that address. >> the two of you were there before the red cross and even fema? >> well, it was a huge community effort. there were people in rock away like megyn and kalin fitzgerald, a group of wo...

We were writing peoples addresses. the true heros are the volunteers that came down from brooklyn and other parts of queens that werent damaged in manhattan. they came down and they were willing to do anything. so we would just literally handing out post-its go to 225 beechwood. go in this address and that address. >> the two of you were there before the red cross and even fema? >> well, it was a huge community effort. there were people in rock away like megyn and kalin fitzgerald, a group of wo...

Focused on the chicago area. they found banks in the city of chicago around 11:30 p.m. last night local time. he was not armed, according to local media. a witness telling reporters he saw banks sitting outside an apartment building talking on a cell phone just moments before officers arrived. weve been covering the huge manhunt for the two convicted bank robbers since they vanished earlier this week, and that search at last check this hour is still ongoing for kenneth connolly. heres the fbi ti...

Rich. >> and they do. >> and jay carney is now saying republicans, oh, theyre only going to be happy if they can give rich people tax cuts. now theyve morphed raising taxes to tax cuts for the rich. hes playing out of a 1995 playbook and, yes, they won the election using a class warfare argument and god bless them. theyre not going to win reelection. because hes not running again. whens he going to realize that? >> just a matter of -- >> and by the way, jon, im sorry, hes not running for reelect...

At what point does he have the right to draw a line in the sand? >> he has a mandate. the 225, 230 house republicans that won their elections in their district and represent their 600,000 people and probably got a much higher percentage in their district a much, much higher percentage than the president. jon meacham, for some reason you would think this president as a state legislator would understand those dynamics. >> thats a great point. thats -- pick your percentage. a huge part of what poli...

Jovan belcher through any means other than denying it to all people. when he said why did he own one? i just suggested to you hundreds of thousands times a year american citizens protect themselves and the ultimate purpose for putting it in the constitution was founding fathers who believed some day you might have a tran cal government. i know people dont like that suggestion. but that was the reason they put it in there. >> i think we all agree its the person responsible for this crime is jovan...

Americas commitment to israels security is rock solid and unwavering. that is why we believe its essential to deescalate the situation in gaza. the rocket attacks from terrorist organizations inside gaza, on israeli cities and towns must end. a broader calm restored. >> dana: so that was secretary hillary clinton. yesterday, she was with president obama on the asia trip. they were in burma. then it was enough of an emergency he needed to send her to do personal diplomacy there. you have 840 peop...

225 children have been wound and they and apparently egypt view israel as the aggressor and the terrorist. your response. >> well, shooting rockets indiscriminately is against any international law. and thank god we have the best defense mechanism against rockets firing at us. gods forbid you know what would have happened if we didnt have that defense mechanism? the casualty numbers in israel would be greats. but thank god we use great technology that israel is so powerful in for medicine better...