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Eyeing 2014, but you also have some senators like levin, who is not going to seek reelection. i think again there is this sense that there are enough republicans, enough democrats who want to put some skin in the game, who have in the past agreed to entitlement reforms, agreed to a fiddling with the tax code. i think you have enough. i think the sort of template is not only 2011, but also the fiscal cliff. you had some republicans break from party orthodoxy there, because they had a lot of press...

And from the federal revenue bank and others. we just picked up 236,000 jobs. thats good news. we need to continue to -- why would we want to insist on a policy that individual observers say will deflate it. it doesnt remember any quantum leap. all were saying is we have to do a grand solution to this, but its got to be based on common sense. heres one solution. instead of saying that we have to cut back medicare, why arent we cutting back special-interest loopholes in the tax code? why arent we...

Reform and we also know that they continue to say that somehow the president has robbed medicare when its actually the romney/ryan budget thats scaling back medicare benefits significantly for seniors. so between we did build it and welfare and medicare, theres one lie after another that theyre pushing forth from that stage which has really been filled with anger, ideology and very few specific ideas about how to get americans back to work, how to rebuild our economy. >> are you impressed that t...

12-member commission. co-chair, patty murray, has been announced by reids office. shes the chair of the democratic senatorial campaign committee. and shes second in line on the senate budget committee, as well. she was believed to be a favorite for this spot. a front-runner, because she is seen as someone who will protect medicare and protect social security. reids announcement also named max baucus, senator who was part of the deficit commission last year. but he voted against the final plan, w...

Those monsters were so they were lessened. i disagreed with that. premise was for terrorist activities. now we find out that federal agents and local police are using the authorities under the patriot act for ordinary criminal prosecutions. and we find it in the same week in which the supreme court says that the police smelled marijuana outside your house, they can break down the door. the indiana supreme court says the police have a right to come in even if its not to investigate a crime. so we...

Number five, the tea party will transform american politics. this is a myth? >> i think its a myth in that we have seen lots of political movements that spring up, make a huge impact and then go away. tea partiers promise theyre going to be around if republicans misbehave when they take over congress. well see. what usually happens is a movement, in this case, people who are already conservatives are already like republicans and who change the party that they wanted to change in the first place....

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And more u.s. exports. he claimed hes been righting the ship. >> saving an auto industry, creating 4.5 million new jobs, 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. >> reporter: conservatives fear mitt romney, trailing in most battleground states, needs a boost. the influential "wall street journal" urged him to pick paul ryan as his running mate. ryan is the controversial house budget committee chairman who would reduce the deficit by scaling back medicare. >> the problem with picking paul ryan is the very...