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After school. she gave me a racket. i saw a wall and thats it. >> brian: so youre up 15 love. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> brian: all right. so tell me right now, you got your game tonight in new york city. these crowds are crazy with the knicks and heat last night. what do you expect tonight? >> i expect a full crowd as we were all promised and i cant wait to get out there. i mean, i had such an amazing experience last year, we opened with a full crowd. this venue is even bigger. so much history tha...

For the department of defense. sure they could use that for better things. $72.7 million for the department of veterans affairs. im sure they would like to see that in their health care plan. $38.7 million to the justice -- $58.7 million to the justice department. if youre doing smart cuts, you would imagine that these conferences with face time and everything else, these could be one of the things that are cut back? >> its a natural to be cut. obviously people need to get together from time to ...

So the problem we have is probably in the history of the country, weve never had such a lack of leadership. nobody says come o weve got to get this country going again. lets get in a room. lets get this country going again. taxes are part of that. its a big part of that. i wouldnt say the only policy and only thing. if you look what were doing on energy, there is so much potential that the country has that were just wasting it. >> brian: the governor of north carolina, virginia had a one on one,...

Look at this. look at that! >> you definitely got more power. >> brian: there go, i got more power. >> gretchen: what are the chances, brian? >> brian: victoria, let me feel the power from you. >> power from me. >> brian: let me see a serve from you. well use a real tennis ball. >> oh, no! >> gretchen: what are the chances we have a little kid coming up who did his video went viral, dance to go that song. maybe he can stick around and greet him when he comes in. hes only six. >> steve: very nice...

Government coming up at the end of the month. will we find another compromise? im not sure. >>brian: the president has been going around but not with republicans. he wants to get together on some type of compromise, maybe lesson, give some control over on some of these cuts which is 2.4% on the budget. but he also wants them to get together on march 27, which is the day the debt ceiling either goes up or we -- the government stops. so they come up with some type of deal to kick it till september...

Obviously you can go through the channels in your agency, go to the inspector general. but we in the government oversight and reform committee are committed to abuse. >>brian: congressman, thank you. meanwhile, straight ahead, one of the craziest stories weve heard, a sink hole swallows a man whole. so how can you tell if your home is at risk? were going to ask an expert. this story will make big banks if he fess up. we wrongfully foreclosed on military families even while they were away at war.

>>steve: mr. bidens advice backfired. >>brian: i think the scariest thing for president obama is to see biden on camera without notes. remember dustin hoffman when he was dressed as a woman in tootsie. thats what vice president was like. >>gretchen: do you ever do this when you are in the gym? suddenly you see a call from the school maybe from your kids or work is trying to find you, so you pick it up even though you see that sign over there that says youre not supposed to do it? one woman found...

The president wants to raise taxes and keep spending as is. thats very different from the republican side which says enough with the tax increases. get on with serious spending cuts. they are very, very far apart. >>gretchen: republicans were on the record yesterday -- we played at the top of the hour -- saying were willing to increase revenue by reducing some of these tax loopholes if -- if -- we talk about the big spending issues like entitlements. >>steve: and tax reform. >> they are edging t...

Actually lower rates. i think none of thats been in this discussion. so absolutely i think we need to do a big agreement for the country, because we havent dealt with the fundamental drivers of our debt: the entitlement programs. >>gretchen: they dont sound so unreasonable? i had to read those sound bites verbatim a couple of extra times this morning to make sure i was hearing republicans saying this. we dont need to raise taxes to fund the government. we need to raise taxes to get our nation ou...

Just this week they decided that forgetting special interest tax breaks for the well off is more important than protecting our military and middle class family from these cuts. >> and yet another crisis looming at the end of the month. thats when the government could shut down if there is no agreement on funding. brian? >> brian: thanks a lot. so thats the latest. lets bring in how the world feels about it and big business, donald trump, author of "time to get tough" and very proud to say you ki...