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Credit john boehner and the republican leadership a lot here. we do not want a shutdown. ive got to tell you, it is like were the only game in town. the president has been awol in these talks. senate democrats dont have a proposal on the take. weve been negotiating with ourselves. nobody wants a shutdown. go ahead greta. >> greta: good, bad or indifferent? >> i think the american people are way ahead of the politicians on this. they understand how serious this fiscal crisis is. might it be a goo...

Ft. mcnair in washington, d.c. and speak before an audience at the national defense university. what was the thinking behind that? >> well, absolute, its symbolically very important. number one, white house officials wanted the sacrifice of u.s. mrl try personnel, and more importantly big pictures, the president, aides say, said away because they thought it would run counter to the point hes trying to make. well over 100,000 u.s. troops early on in the mission in iraq and in afghanistan, tens of...

Have those images of the run on food in japan, we put them up a little while ago. it showed an absolute may lay at the -- melee at the grocery store. some person had 50 eggs they were trying to check out at the checkout area. we know japan has good engineering, one of the reasons all of the tall towers in japan are still standing. but talk a little bit about your personal preparation. what sort of things do they tell you to have on hand. we heard from one of bryans friends, and he said they had ...

Democrats. for three weeks they abandoned their job and the people they represent and 14 districts and they decided that the minority could rule. we showed we could move this bill forward. we reached out to some of the reasonable ones, their leader, senator miller showed they no interest in doing anything but shutting this bill down. thankfully the legislature stood up to those tactics. >> greta: democrats are not backing down they say they are going to take back democracy. the states number two...

Worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate. and what i can tell you is wendy things that were wrong, i wasnt trapped in situation ethics. i was doing things that were wrong, yet i was doing it. i felt compelled to seeks gods forgiveness, not gods understanding but gods forgiveness. >> what a slime ball. what an absolute, unequivocal slime ball. >> what he just said makes no sense at all. he was wearing an american lapel flag pin while he was committing adul...

Bombers? yes, you are but you are also guys who provide support to the war fighter on the ground through isr and so forth. >> this a farewell tour by the way? >> absolutely. >> last stop at west point, last stop at colorado springs? >> absolute, final messageness to the services. >> speaking of afghanistan, we mentioned general petraeus apologized for the death of nine boys in afghanistan who were killed accidentally. how did this happen and how much does this set back what the u.s. is trying to...

Republican predecessors -- >> yeah, this is -- >> this is not tom delay. >> exactly. this is the way the institution is supposed to work. and democracy is messy. and its going to expose boehner to some losses here or there. the thing is, whether youre talking about speaker boehner or harry reid or the president or all these people, you know, these are all adults. and they all know the consequences of a real government shutdown, and of not raising the debt ceiling. and i think at the end of the d...

Broader than this. this is an outright assault on worker rights and trying to silence the workers voices. its not just about the eight states, add to that, iowa, nebraska, the states that are trying to undercut if not totally eliminate the collective bargaining rights these workers have enjoyed. this is about right to work laws. paycheck protection laws that they call protection, which as you know is really paycheck deception, which is trying to silence workers voices in the political process. 1...

Well, they only got 8% of the benefits. see, bush couldnt hold a candle to the highway robber of the poor back in the 1980s. back in the years when ronald reagan was president. income of the top 0.1% grew over 105%. the bottom 90% only had a 1.2% increase. now, you tell me what the mission has been since the reagan years. that means the super rich grew 100% faster than the rest of america. you want to know what the hell is happening to the middle class? there are the numbers. trickle down econom...

I know its like people say btw. people say by the way. oh, my god, omg. and people say what the -- and then the other word. but youre right. heres a woman running for president perhaps talking like this. jeff, were you offended by her lingo? its childish and playing to the peanut gallery with this talk. not playing like youre running for president. im offended by the absolute, seems to be weird sense of american history were getting from these people like her and bachmann. the other night bachma...