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Leadership, under president bush, and sadly, under president obama, the role the u.s. has played in negotiations has been a negative, destructive role. >> is that true? do you agree with that, the u.s. has played a destructive role? >> it certainly has put a hand brake on the negotiations. sadly, because there actually is -- >> why is that? >> double opportunity. theyre blind to the double opportunity. one opportunity is for the united states to make serious investments here at home, into clean ...

The full day meeting of the ministers of the 20 largest economies of the world, who are again committed to the very, very clear time line that they have set for coming to this global agreement, including the united states. >> a global agreement that has, if im not mistaken, the force of law, right? i think whats the technical language coming out? its a force of law, but its not binding. and i want to talk about -- i want you to convince me to come back, and you too, as well, that this process ca...

Their budget together, come to a budget compromise for the country. the house passed a budget and refused to go to that conference with the is that the because it was scared of what might happen. gun control was a total flop. the appropriations process has completely broken down. we almost went over the fiscal cliff when john boehners plan b failed. sequestration which boehner once calleded devastating is now the law of the land and will be. the r federal reserve, ben bernanke, cannot pursue the...

To our brain trust. managing editor at politico. and christine niedermayer, author of straight scoop politics, the blog. thank you all for being here today. >> thank you. >> rachel, u.s. interests abroad are facing the terror threat. the president is golfing and celebrating his birthday, which hes entitled to do. and congress is on break for five weeks, which is scheduled. but do the optics of this look back while all of this security assessment is taking place globally? >> congress is scheduled...

Fema also provides health with the city, county and state with some of the infrastructure work. that will be a long. im very aware of the stuff. weve been blasted by family from all over the country that are mad about sandy issues. the sandy issue really became three different issues. one was the immediate response that was needed there to help with the emergencies. one was the flood relief that obviously the flood insurance has a fiasco for years, and then the third aspect was the ongoing futur...

Right of self-defense. john: american kill anybody anywhere? >> of course not. listen to what i just said. the constitution gives the president the commander in chief authority, subject to congressional check through the appropriations process, to defend the united station -- united states against attack. john: i dont get how that is an answer. >> he said in the president kill anybody anywhere, and the obvious answer is no. john: if these people are identified as a threat to america. >> if they ...

To separate the combatants from innocent civilians. so the war on terror is different from traditional state to state war. the commander-in-chief authority vested by the constitution in the president gives in the direction over the were capabilities of the united states. his efforts both in the bush and obama administration to go after the terrorist, i think is entirely justified both by the constitution and by our inherent right of self-defense. john: american kill anybody anywhere? >> of cours...

Right of self-defense. john: american kill anybody anywhere? >> of course not. listen to what i just said. the constitution gives the president the commander in chief authority, subject to congressional check through the appropriations process, to defend the united station -- united states against attack. john: i dont get how that is an answer. >> he said in the president kill anybody anywhere, and the obvious answer is no. john: if these people are identified as a threat to america. >> if they ...

Dodging one bullet as congress gets ready to extend the debt ceiling, but another budget battle could shut down the entire federal government. rich edson is lye on capitol hill for the fox business network. whats going on, rich? >> reporter: good afternoon, jon. in a couple of days, the senate will vote on a proposal to extend the debt ceiling out til may, so if the senate does, it heads to the white house for the presidents signature, and that reorders the calendar of deadlines as far as spendi...

Outraged were sort of limping along. >> sure, 5 trillion dollars ago is the last time the senate had a budget. unbelievable, the debt has gone up by 5 trillion dollars and yet for almost four years now there hasnt been a budget and with a budget, as you know, comes regular poured meaning you have the appropriations process, so you actually have some oversight over government. instead what we do are the stop gap bills that, you know, frankly, were not doing the work. so, the democrats in the sena...