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it was eight days, nine days ago we were discussing paul ryan, the article in "the new yorker" called fuss budget. did you know then he was actually on the fast track to be a pick for the vp? >> no, we barely talked about it in my interview. the reason i wrote the piece, i wanted to think about what is romney going so do if he wins. if you want to understand what republicans will do if they gain the white house, paul ryan is the guy to understand. it was his policy agenda that you knew...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the secret service prostitution scandal that exploded in colombia may be just the tip of the iceberg. allegations have now surfaced of similar misconduct involving heavy drinking, a strip club, escorts on a previous presidential trip, this one to el salvador. reporter chris holmsby broke the story and he joins me now. chris, what happened in el salvador just prior to president obamas trip there in march of last year? >> reporter: we just flew to ...

But as of right now there is no scheduled mark up in the senate budget committee, and im a member of that committee. there is no intention even if we were to mark up a bill for senator reid to bring that budget to the floor. it looks like the united states senate for the third year in a row will go out a budget and a plan for how to spend all this money. bill: a thousand 50 days, how do we explain that to the american people. >> i think, bill here is the challenge. obviously we have a tremendous...

Steve. >> that is true and actually we have charts that go into that in a little bit. the other thing to remember is the difference between this budget and what the republicans are talking about is a different vision for america in the sense that the republican vision of america is much lower taxes and much lower spending on everything. what obama was trying to do in part was i think stake out a different vision, which is im willing to increase taxes on the rich. go beyond the bush tax cuts, mak...

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Package to put the nations fiscal house in order. what do you think the odds are of that happening at this point? >> i dont think we have a choice. i mean, really, weve got an economy thats still ailing. too many people out of work. our focus is to try and jump start this economy. and what we continue to hear when you talk to small and large businesses is, if you want to fix the economy, fix the deficit. if you want to provide the kind of environment where theres going to be growth, make long-te...

If something doesnt happen today, then the assumption is its not going to happen. >> my goal here is to actually solve the problem. not to get a good headline on the first day. >> so the president actually got some tough questions yesterday. hey, mr. president, whats the deal? why didnt you listen to your debt commission? >> its a very curious complaint to be complaining the press is impatient when he had several months to put together a budget. he had the message sent to him by the american peo...

Only about $250 billion out of a xhul cumulative deficit, which by that time will be in the neighborhood of $8 or $9 trillion. >> bottom line, belle, what rating or number would you assign them for honesty in budget proposals? >> well, i think i would give them reasonable marks there. i havent had a chance to actually look at the budget document, but i think the problem here is mainly not honesty but political will. and i think when republicans are not willing to even put taxes on the table and ...

Proposal is a statement of values. but republicans say its a nonstarting for them and especially when it comes to the price tag you mentioned, to fund a number of democratic priorities. its a massive budget document. there are so many things you can look at. when you break it down, you can see significant more spending in places like the commerce and education and transportation department. this as the white house continues to double down on infrastructure as well as boosting government spending...

I think we can put it on screen. thank you. its titled, you can see, department of homeland security fiscal year 2018, transfer and reprograming notifications. in other words, this is the whole list of money that homeland security took from one agency and moved to another. and the practice of transferring monies between agency, that is not unusual in itself, but it is unusual to see in one of these documents a whole column full of money being deleted from the fema budget less than a year after h...