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Points eventually at some point one of these guys has to run against a republican, president trump, right? i think it is very telling. almost none of these candidates on stage has ever run a credible and tight race against a republican for their current job. john hickenlooper in 2014 won by four points. the other closest were cory booker and elizabeth warren won by nine points but those were in solid blue states. and in presidential years or special elections. so that is very telling. you cant w...

That they would allow this to just go forward and do a continuing resolution with the sequestration cuts. your thoughts. >> thats exactly what were hearing. today we heard it from the minority leadership of the senate and also in the house. theyre shrugging their shoulders saying its okay because its going to further reduce the size of government. wait a minute. exactly what are you reducing? youre reducing the military defense. youre reducing research for all of the critical things we need in o...

Crs confirmed it. all the economists are unanimous if were going to try to go after the debt, now that we have virtually 3% gdp growth, we want do it in a way thats least damaging to the economy. almost all of them agree the obama approach is the right approach. increasing the rates on the wealthy will have no impact on job creation or gdp growth. >> professor dyson, we found out today that the austerity budgets used in the eurozone have sent employment to record highs. unemployment in spain is ...

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Down 31 points. not really as much of a reaction as some expected today after we got some election results from greece and also election results out of france. some concerns that maybe the european bailout could be complicated. what does that mean for us? we have the associated today for for baron the dow jones financial weekly. he has the lead article almost every week. mike, what does this mean. >> it calls into questions the comfortable co contentions we called off the debt crisis in europe. ...

>> is europe getting its arms around its real economic problems or is this french election really showing us in fact, that theyre not there yet? >> i think its too early to say, i think if europe manages to do what it needs to do and widely what needs to happen. needs to put in place incentives for the economies to grow. >> for private sector. >> absolutely. not just free-standing. and germany is an example and poland is doing well. so there are european success stories out there, but europe nee...

>> is europe getting its arms around its real economic problems or is this french election really showing us in fact, that theyre not there yet? >> i think its too early to say, i think if europe manages to do what it needs to do and widely what needs to happen. needs to put in place incentives for the economies to grow. >> for private sector. >> absolutely. not just free-standing. and germany is an example and poland is doing well. so there are european success stories out there, but europe nee...

>> is europe getting its arms around its real economic problems or is this french election really showing us in fact, that theyre not there yet? >> i think its too early to say, i think if europe manages to do what it needs to do and widely what needs to happen. needs to put in place incentives for the economies to grow. >> for private sector. >> absolutely. not just free-standing. and germany is an example and poland is doing well. so there are european success stories out there, but europe nee...

china have hit a brick wall. why and who will take their place as the next hot emerging markets? then andrew sullivan on why he had to wait almost 20 years to get a green card in the united states. its a fascinating, troubling story. were also going to look at the war on drugs in mexico. could it actually be working? first, heres my take. a new poll in the united states shows that americans are still deeply frustrated at the slow pace of the economic recovery. thats understandable....

states. its a fascinating, troubling story. were also going to look at the war on drugs in mexico. could it actually be working? first, heres my take. a new poll in the united states shows that americans are still deeply frustrated at the slow pace of the economic recovery. thats understandable. unemployment stays stubbornly high. i was just in europe, and they think america is booming. consider this. the u.s. economy is on track to grow between 2% and 3% this year. in europe, by contr...