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Im in missouri, the country music capital of the world. >> sean: tony orlandos home. boehner has scheduled a vote. the president has been fear-mongering, scaring seniors, demagoguing the issue. even warren buffet is upset about the class warfare, private jets. boehner scheduled a vote on cutting 111 billion now for 2012. cutting serious cuts. capping spending. and a balanced budget amendment. i think strategically, this is what the republicans need to do. they have one house. they dont have the ...

President barack obama. as the president holds to his bluff that he wants a big deal, a $4 trillion deficit reduction package, the republican leadership has gone from retreat from $4 trillion to $2 trillion, then from yesterdays surrender position outlined by senator mitch mcconnell to todays total outright confusion about what to do or think next. they should, by now, realized that they were tricked by the president into weeks of discussion of trillions in possible spending cuts. eric cantor an...

Governor, tim pawlenty announced he will not sign the marriage pledge. >> shock collar. if the candidate ever forgets the pledges he has signed and raises taxes on the top 2% of -- >> good evening from new york, the normally disciplined congressional republicans are now in an all-out panic in the most difficult negotiation they have faced to date with president barack obama. as the president holds to his bluff that he wants a big deal, a $4 trillion deficit reduction package, the republican lead...

>> now moodys and standard and poors credit rating agencies are warning the countrys aaa credit rating could be at risk if theres no deal to raise the debt ceiling by the august 2nd deadline. >> housing probably slows down, job creation definitely slows down, stock market probably gets hit, too. >> president obama reportedly knew about moodys warning before heading into debt negotiations with congressional leaders yesterday afternoon. it was the fifth meeting in a row and sources say the most co...

The white house denied it. this afternoon, democratic national committee used it as part of an e-mail fundraising appeal. dont make me call your bluff into a big thing. the president is saying, you must have a deal within 24 to 36 hours. mr. president, what is your deal? will you pro offer a deal. write it up, put it on a couple pieces of paper and offer it. instead hes saying, cave. give me all the taxes i want. and give me as little restraint on spending as i want. and dont ever count on me to...

Revenues in the deal. if you try to squeeze out a path of budget sustainability or anything like that without revenue, will you have to cut government to the point where it would be unrecognizable, and im talking about military, social security, you know, health security, retirement security. education, infrastructure. protection for low-income people. the reason why revenues have to be part of the deal, its not because we want things to be balanced or things should be even or we want this and t...

Prosperityy. completely, of course, disproved by the biggest recession since the great depression. so topsy-turvy upside down and to tell you 9 truth, rive been in this town a couple of decades, not in this town but d.c. and i really havent seen anything like it. to the extend of hypocrisy is a bit frightening. >> jared, just on this point, were you in the white house when the tax cut deal was put through in the lame duck session that preserved the bush tax cuts for the upper bracket. >> right. ...

>> the former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty announced he will not sign the marriage pledge. >> shock collar. if the candidate ever forgets the pledges he has signed and raises taxes on the top 2% of -- >> good evening from new york, the normally disciplined congressional republicans are now in an all-out panic in the most difficult negotiation they have faced to date with president barack obama. as the president holds to his bluff that he wants a big deal, a $4 trillion deficit reduction pack...

Have made in the last few years is giving too much to a republican party thats not willing to give in return. when in fact the tide of republican opinion, the tide of sound economic policy is firmly with the democrats. i mean, we have never is had economic growth in our country with such low corporate and income taxes for the superrich. theres wide public support for doing this, but for some reason the democrats continue to him and haw rather than holding firm. >> theres even an online petition ...

High as the rivers going to get. its busted all records. its never been this high before. and by and large, this is a city thats been spared because a lot of it is at very high elevation, on a bluff above where i am now. a few historic buildings here and rir -- riverboat gambling, thats been shut down because the access road to that boat has been flooded out. natchez is a city thats famous for its sightseeing. it has a lot of antebellum mansions. the people here have never seen anything like thi...