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Us. we have hundreds of millions of dollars behind us. and if you dare to support a continuing resolution, a clean cr, were going to primary you, and we have unbelievable sums of money to defeat you. so what you are looking at now is what citizens united is all about. and that is giving a handful of billionaires the koch brothers and others, incredible power to tell members of congress what they can and cannot do. very dangerous. >> senator, what did you think of that conversation caught on came...

>> im ashleigh banfield. good to have ali here all week. in the battle over the bush-era tax cuts, playing politics with your takehome pay and nothing hort of the presidency is on the line here. if the two parties cant agree on extending those tax cuts by the end of the year, a typical american family making $70,000 a year could get hit with a tax increase of $3,000. that is a lot of pain. right now house republicans are busy crafting a plan to extend those tax cuts for everyone acro...

governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. "cnn newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. im carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. thats who would most benefit fr...

take years to fix. and sanjay gupta joining us live this hour in cambodia where children are dying after 24 hours of hell. how will they fix this? where is the solution? hi, everybody. we start with house republicans renewing their efforts to overturn the affordable care act. you know the thing they call obamacare which was upheld by the supreme court but theres always tomorrow. youre looking at one of the hearings on capitol hill dealing with health care. a whole lot of debate going...

personal returns. >> joining us now live, congressman steve king, a republican from iowa and member of the tea party caucus. good morning. >> good morning. >> the president wants to keep lower taxes for 97% of americans, the treasuries departments office of tax analysis for the tax year 2007, under bush, 3% of all tax returns were for incomes over $250,000. explain the view that obamas proposal would hurt. walk me through it. >> i recall back when the bush tax brackets were first imple...