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Of our work force. that is going to be their plan in september to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> chris: let me talk with you, congressman boehner. you say and senator mcconnell says the answer is to extend the bush tax cuts. lets take a look at the cost here. extending just the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost $678 billion over ten years. extending all the tax cuts would cost $2.9 trillion. that will explode the deficit and president obama says today that for all of the talk abo...

Started investigating charlie rangel in september of 2008 and i remember having her and steny hoyer, the number two, the house majority leader on the show, time after time and saying, where is this investigation going? how long is it taking and its a general feeling that they had slow walked the investigation and now its biting them in the butt because were apparently going to have the trial if it goes to a trial, in september less than two months before the election, the timing could not be wor...

Small business income and 25% of our work force. that is going to be their plan in september to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> chris: let me talk with you, congressman boehner. you say and senator mcconnell says the answer is to extend the bush tax cuts. lets take a look at the cost here. extending just the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost $678 billion over ten years. extending all the tax cuts would cost $2.9 trillion. that will explode the deficit and president obama says toda...

South korea improve its antisubmarine warfare capabilities, and the north koreans are very angry about the exercises. one of the patterns, if you look at north korean behavior over many years, is they respond to pressuring coercion by upping the ante. and at the moment, its really rhetoriccal. theres all kinds of very bellicose language coming from pyongyang. whether theyre going to actually do anything aimingalt the exercises, i doubt. but its not impossible that well see them begin to reactiva...

>> is this a good day for the republican party there is a new caucus with 36 members in it and the rest of the caucus desperately worried whether they should be in it? >> it is interesting. it is calling a bluff in a certain way at least at the level of labels and optics. the house republican caucus is already extremely, extremely idealogically far right. that has been looked at by political scientists, mapped with this metric of where people fall. it has moved to the right. in fact the smaller ...

Desperately worried whether they should be in it? >> it is interesting. it is calling a bluff in a certain way at least at the lel of labels and optics. the house republican caucus is already extremely, extremely ideal logically far right. that has been looked at by political scientists, mapped with this metric of where people fall. it has moved to the right. in fact the smaller it has gotten, the more it shifted to the right. this is in some ways putting a name of what has already been the case...

Members and the rest of the caucus worried about whether they should be in it? >> it is interesting. its calling a bluff in a certain way. its labels and optics. i think one thing to remember is the house of the republican caucus is already that its extremely, extremely id logically far right. thats been looked at. its moved to the right. the smaller its gotten, the more it shifted to the right. you put a name on what is been the case. that is that the far right of the republican party is the ce...

Far are absolutely radioactive. the notion that you can offer benign explanations for a lot of the profane scheming is a bit of a stretch. theres been an internal debate for months within his camp about whether he should testify. hes client. he thinks he can talk himself out of everything and to sort of add a capper to all of this the last couple of days, his brother, his co-defendant, mentioned in 5 of the 24 counts, he testified the last couple of days, and he got sliced up pretty good when it...

And say this is the day that the midterm election campaign really began. plus the crisis in the gulf of mexico is not over yet, but the cap on the oil well is still holding. there are concerns that oil or gas may be seeping out beneath the seabed, but no oil has leaked into the gulf for four days. well check with our favorite expert tonight. heres my question of the day. do republicans have any ideas of about how to cut spending, or do they just want to demagogue the issue? if you saw "meet th...

Bob scrum with us tonight. does the guy deserve a day off after a week like that? what do you think, bob? it has been politically one of his better weeks, dont you think? >> absolutely. if the republicans want to complain about him taking a few days off in maine, he ought to call their bluff. if they havent passed extended unemployment compensation and repeal financial reform. jon kyl saying we dont have to pay for tax cuts for the rich. just for help for the jobless.