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The road, use whatever metaphor you want to use. but the problem is, our budget since you and i left back in 2001 has doubled from $1.8 trillion up to $3.6 trillion. and were just saying that its time to change things. lets get back to fixing the budget and getting america back on track again. >> congressman, i want to switch gears for a second. your district is arizona, which in many ways was kind of ground zero for housing and a lot of damage in the economy. now were hearing how housings comin...

And health care spending isnt a rational market because all of us when youre sick, you want everything you possibly can get. >> right. >> and so theres -- i dont think we talk enough about this. theres really a fundamental scariness at the heart of this which is whats driving the long-term deficit problem is an irrational market about our most -- the things that are most important to us. this is not about big bird, not about npr, this is not about discretionary spending which is, what, 12% of th...

>> drama at "the view." >> lewis weighed in this morning on "way too early" and gave bill his unconditional support. i know bill was like -- thank god. >> oh, wow. well, its good to know that it goes on. >> thats great to know. thats right. they were saying going to miss joy, but they were saying elisabeth was going to be fired because focus groups showed she was conservative. >> you cant do that. that would be a problem if you were being fired for your point of view. >> barbara said they werent...

Imperial powers in afghanistan it was an incredibly difficult terrain. its barely a country in many ways. one of the things about karzai is i remember back in 2001 people saying, you know, we know we cant buy a war lord, but the problem is in afghanistan, you cant even rent them. and thats true of karzai in many ways. and so i think this will be studied forever. i hope its studied forever in terms of a mission defining a mission more clearly. and the idea that we have to sit here in 2013 and mak...

Crisis isnt a huge problem, its a big budget problem, but please, dont blame what people eat. youve got to look at the whole thing wholistically and thats what willie and i always say, wholistically. >> people have too many calories in this country. >> by the way, ive got blueberries. dont even think about it. ive got blueberries too. >> balanced diet. >> we have a couple of other stories that are -- >> yogurt -- >> thats good. >> this one -- >> pure sugar. >> ill end on saying this. before you ...