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>> the specter of a approximate government shut down is hanging over congress as lawmakers return to work. the clock is sticking and at least the two sides are talking. >> a government shut down looming friday night republicans turn up the heatos democrats to cut spending. >> democrats have an opportunity to show they get it. they have an opportunity to show that the status quo on spend debt is no longer an option . >> liberal house democrats are balking arguing that it is part of larger cuts th...

Conservative columnist, andrea hasnt worked in the white house yet but theres plenty of time. >> no, just capitol hill. >> just the hill, yeah. to both of you now, chris van hollen, democrat from maryland, was on and said you cant hang all this stuff on the unions, you cant blame the unions for all your problems, whether its $8 billion in the hole or $12 billion in the hole, doesnt matter. now, what kasich was interested was whether or not hes antiunion. are these governors now being framed that...

>> the specter of a approximate government shut down is hanging over congress as lawmakers return to work. the clock is sticking and at least the two sides are talking. >> a government shut down looming friday night republicans turn up the heatos democrats to cut spending. >> democrats have an opportunity to show they get it. they have an opportunity to show that the status quo on spend debt is no longer an option . >> liberal house democrats are balking arguing that it is part of larger cuts th...

Al jazeera is having great fun showing pictures of hillary clinton meeting with gadhafi, i dont know which son is the most hideous, a pretty bad man. >> lots of people are arguing, front page story in "the new york times", to weaken saudi arabia, at the end of the day, all of the regimes were pretty anti-iranian and pro-american. but the street feels more anti-american and the argument is more pro-iranian. >> all of the experts that snow what egyptians thinks, i dont know what they think. i didn...

Rights act of 1998, a federal law. thats what julian was arguing, saying that if hes extradited to sweden he might get extradited to the u.s. and go to gitmo and die. that was his defense. the fact is the swedish authorities do have the right to make the inquiry. judge riddle is right. richards also right that there will be an appeal, but i think hes on his way to sweden. >> interesting stuff. lets stay a little closer to home now. anaheim. were talking about a junior high school that says weve ...

Kiss? >> yeah. >> thats why i dont go to the bunny ranch. you think you will have a drink and maybe a little fun and somebody s cru ks the brains -- sucks the brains out of your head. is this a good time for this? >> it is an awful time for this. everyone knows the key government issue right now is jobs, jobs, jobs. there is no arguing. it will put more em on the unemployment -- more people on the unemployment road.

Are many who feel that what basically has resulted in a restriction of free speech and of simply a lack of conviction, a lack of arguing in an honest way when it comes to subjects that are touchy. as you probably know, in the last month, weve had three european leaders, david cameron of england, a leader of france, and andrea merkel of germany coming out and saying multi-culturallism has failed. what that means is in their countries, theyve tried to deal nicely with the muslim influx and have go...

On unions than trying to fill out a budgetary promise. is it fair to criticize him for making a comment or get involved? >> i dont think the president was criticizing anybody. he made an observation that it looks like the union right to collective bar gaining is under assault and it is. the green bay packers stood behind them. he is not the only one weighing in on the issue and what we all know to be an assault on collective bargaining and the right to negotiate. what are the best ways to put ou...

A contract discussion. and we have made changes in district after district about health care and have been charged in large measure under our previous bargaining system with the kind of contributions that are made. they get charged against our settlement packages. so salary dollars have been given up in order to meet those particular demands. >> im assuming with the governor, judging from his words that ive read, is trying to make it easier for some of the local districts to do what they have to...

Jenna: interesting, carl. how is congress now handling the presidents 2012 budget now that all this is also going on? >> reporter: yeah, right we are talking about this years current year fiscal year spending as opposed to what the president proposed last week. treasury secretary timothy geithner today was pressed into two very interesting admissions by both the democratic chairman of the committee, kent conrad as well as the republican ranking member on the senate budget committee jeff sessions...