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I think were starting to see the beginnings of this negotiation take place because the vote could happen in a couple of -- in about a month or maybe it gets delayed until july if geithner does some accounting measures. >> well, we are in the thick of it now. thank you very much, chuck todd, from the white house. and april is autism awareness month. an estimated 1.5 million people in this country are affected by autism spectrum disorders and the rate of diagnosis is increasing between 10 and 17...

Are already affected? >> i just want to tell you, i brought my birth certificate with me in case there is any issue here. this has become very important now. >> with all the problems were facing in america, exactly, we all have to prove where we were born. but, bob -- >> the -- >> what is the real point here? >> we have a tremendous amount of research dollars in the mix. the nih has on its partç put i about $600 million of research. we put in $160 million of money we raised ourselves into it. ...

way to put it. it is aç little less real in t sense that it wont cause the government to shut down because there are things that the treasury can do and tim geithner outlined those in a letter to congress to keep the government operating without having a catastrophic closing of the government. at the same time, if they did, in fact, not pass the higher debt ceiling and we did reach the limit, then we would default on our debt, which would be absolutely catastrophic for not only the u...

The problems barack obama has had with most white voters. the problem is even if you assume as ron brownstein did in his piece that that number will increase, that barack obama will get fewer white voters, even when you do that, because of the fast growing minority population and the likely percentages going to the democratic presidential candidate, the republicans are in a world of hurt here and theyre going to have to do more than just have a silver bullet, more than just play racial politics....

192,000 and employers are hiring at the fastest rate since the recession began but 13.5 million are still unemployed. 921,000 discouraged workers left the workforce last month giving up. bring in labor secretary hilda solis. the good and the bad. the participation rate held at 64.2%. the unemployment numbers overall are obviously good news for the administration and for america. >> yes, andrea. i will tell you that in february and march we had one of our biggest growths there in the pr...

i want to simplify rates and i want to, at the same time, make sure that we have the same amount of money coming in as going out. those are big, tough negotiations and i suspect that theres going to be a lot of ups and downs in the months to come before we finally get to that solution. just as a lot of people were skeptical about us being able to deal with the tax cuts we did in december but we ended up getting in done, im confident we can get this done as well. >> all right. good morn...

young age. and it was julia childs books which really inspired me. and reading them and trying all the recipes in the book. and sort of falling victim to an obsession. >> of course being surrounded by the greatest chefs, chappell and blank, leon and seeing them every week at the market or twice a week or three times a week, i think for me i wanted to be one of them one day and i think the inspiration kept growing. >> without every young man, young lady in the team that is willing to sa...

and it was julia childs books which really inspired me. and reading them and trying all the recipes in the book. and sort of falling victim to an obsession. >> of course being surrounded by the greatest chefs, chappell and blank, leon and seeing them every week at the market or twice a week or three times a week, i think for me i wanted to be one of them one day and i think the inspiration kept growing. >> without every young man, young lady in the team that is willing to sacrifice eve...

again, what issues are motivating you to vote in the 2010 midterm elections? this is for voters specifically, people who are going to be going to the polls. and you can send an e-mail, journal@c-span.org or send day tweet. this is from "the wall street journal" this morning. polls show men leaning heavily republican this year. democrats try to spur women and left leaning people to vote using social issues. it is unclear whether the push toward social issues can make up the advantage re...

tonight on the kudud report, king dollar is the new reality. it is soaring. i love king dollar, but can we trust it? its not coming from bernanke. its coming from the euro. then again, obama care looks more like france and the euro. is it an investor game changer? and post obamacare, financial regulation is the hot money poptics ticket from washington to wall street. are we about to end too big to fail bailout nation. a new free market bankling paul ace. hat tip to chris dodd who i bel...