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Thats like a magic act. we owe japan $1.4 trillion, same number. we owe them both $1.4 trillion for whatever reason. same number. the balance, the deficits, the numbers are crazy. if you look at the deficit we have with japan, the deficit we have with china, the deficit with almost everybody, honestly, they are big abusers and by the way, i love them. they buy my apartments. its true. i own a big chunk, the biggest chunk i own as you maybe know the bank of america. a lot of people didnt know. ac...

>> other stuff. so this is a big, big chunk of it. >> one of the themes in the presidents speech was natural gas and how important natural gas has become to the american economy. are you bothered by the fact that the white house seems, a, so gung ho about natural gas, that they view it as a bridge fuel, when many climate activists point out, theres still a lot youve got to leave in the ground, and we dont start to make progress until we start leaving stuff in the ground. >> i think natural gas i...

investigation. we begin with the gabby giffords announcement. giffords released a video statement online just hours ago saying she has to focus on her recovery. >> i dont remember much from that horrible day, but i will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice. thank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover. i have more work to do on my recovery. so to do what is best for arizona, i will step down this week. im getting better. >> lets bring in athena jon...

Thursday starting right about now. >> welcome aboard, folks. live from studio e on this thursday, peter johnson jr. in for the vacationing brian kilmeade. >> good to be here. >> great to see you. well talk a little politics today because the gang of six of those three democrats and three republican senators who have been meeting vigilantly for the last couple of weeks to try to come up with the plan to get rid of or at least take a piece on the of our national debt. >> big chunk. >> they now hav...

The president will also talk about strengthening medicare, medicaid, along with social security. these three entitlements make up a big part of the budget but cutting them koult have to do with a big part of it. >> if you look over the next 11, 12 years, $40 trillion. it makes up a big part of the budget. they say 40% of the budget comes from entitlements like social security, medicare, medicaid. look at this. 24%. that comes straight from medicare. 12.8% from medicare, 7.28% from medicaid, 20.4...

Analyst for msnbc john heilemann. yes, hes here. john heilemann of the circus. president of the counsel on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray "richard haass and david ignatius and heidi przybyla is with us as well. we have the circus with us here. are they going to take pictures of you drinking your coffee? >> no, of you drinking your coffee. >> thats the reason theyre here. so the real michael cohen will be in court today in the wake of the fbi raid last week. it come...

Current bus trip ended. that all changed yesterday evening and it not only caught the press off guard but it caught a big, big chunk of the romney team off guard. they were gathered in virginia last night at the end of the day and whene reported at 11:00 last night that the announcement would come at 9:00 this morning, it caused quite a stir and staffers didnt know, reporters didnt know. and a mad scramble ensued but for most of them ended up being an all nighter as they tried to prepare for thi...

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