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Is going to be raised. theres no question about it. you cannot not pass it, because it is catastrophic. it means that american debt is in question, and that has never happened in our history. it cant happen. >> charles kraut hammer with the vote on the federal borrowing limit, the so-called debt ceiling looming. tim pawlenty is calling on members of congress to reject warnings of the government default to call their bluff. >> governor pawlenty is author of the new book "courage to stand, an amer...

Would all focus on the discretionary spending. at a minimum this would buy substantial amounts of time to really tackle the tough spending decisions that should be made and keep getting delayed in the federal governments debate and the congress debate. >> but, governor, does this not amount to you hoping that congress comes agent and specut spending enough to spend within its means, you talked in terms of calling the bluff if the debt ceiling were not raised, but isnt it quite a gamble that cong...

Huntington beach wants to start posting mug shots of everybody arrested more than once. their faces will go up on facebook. a local lawmaker hopes shaming offenders will help stop drunk driving. bill: lets call their bluff. thats what the former governor of minnesota, tim pawlenty, says to challenge republicans officer raising the debt ceiling. tim pawlenty the former governor out of minnesota is with me. i hope you are staying warm up there in minnesota. you get a lot of questions about whether...

Martha: the highest, more formal invitation we can offer to another country, and there are tense times between our two countries. the white house says not raising the debt ceiling would be an economic catastrophy if we were to let that happen. but former governor tim pawlenty says republicans should quote call their bluff. >> you have to be willing to stand up to a culture, a history, a pattern, 21% spending in my state for four years and say we are not doing that anymore. im glad we had that sh...

We have got to do these responsible things because the american people have asked us to do that. th is our charge. bill: thank you for your time. get back to washington. thank you, live in georgia today. martha, whats next? martha: our next guest says republicans should call their bluff on raising the debt ceiling. tim pawlenty says now is the time for tough medicine. he will be here in americas newsroom. bill: one of candidate obamas biggest promises, close gitmo. two years later its still open...

Their bluff and not raise the debt ceiling. do you think youll continue to see more and more republicans aligning themselves with governor pawlenty? >> i think thats absolutely right. i think we need to call their bluff. i think we need to do everything we can to focus on reducing spending. the reason that 71% of the american people say that is there is this sense that increasing the debt ceiling means were going to increase spending. no, what were committed to doing is paying bills in the past....

Wondered how tough the guy really is. within a few weeks we learned a lesson. thats when the nations air traffic controllers threatened to go on strike. they wavenlted huge -- wanted huge raises at a time when he had budget problems. >> a group of air traffic controllers were deeply in this thing. i kept telling the traffic controllers terrific strategy if carter had gotten re-elected. they are going to be fired. >> they are in violation of the law and if they do not report to work within 48-hou...

Martha: america is a great country, you look at that... over 100 miles of u.s. coastline the preferred smuggle route to mexican drug cartels and human traffickers and adam housely on the bluff of san diego. some would say the pacific coast is this longest open border in the u.s. and what is being done to protect it, as they make this sort of end run, around california, adam, how busy are these teams of agents and what is the action like around the coastline there? >> reporter: well, they are ext...

>> it was very smart. it gave creedence to the ability to build a place of religion anytime you want. but for goodness sake, use common sense. there are people who are very, very upset about this. >> absolutely. i mean, it is -- people died there, pab. what do you have to say about this? not only that, but the people behind the mosque. this guy wont renounce hamas. they have interesting thoughts. what are you making of it? >> this guy like you said, he refuseses to admit hamas is a terrorist gro...

Built it. i dont think he looked at it as calling his glove -- calling his bluff. >> if he wont consider the sensibilities of muslims you will not build dialogue. pattersons point was, if he wont consider the sensibilities of the people who lost people on 9-11 or who lived through it downtown, you are not trying to build dialogue either. >> i got it, im that the bar of dialogue. they can never say you havent. >> thats a great idea. >> just name it bridges. >> it is a gay bar so lets call it dial...