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Up ahead was pandora. i grew up hearing about it but i never figured id be going there. >> with "avatar," james cameron wants to bring back the spectacle of a 3-d movie and its geared towards the theatrical experience which i feel like is part of james camerons genius is he wants to make a movie that makes you have to see it in a theater. >> you should see your faces. >> studios were really in love with pre-existing intellectual properties. "avatar" was an idea he had been ruminating on for a lo...

>> studios were really in love with pre-existing intellectual properties. "avatar" was an idea he had been ruminating on for a long time. its original and that is a wildly risky thing to do that the budget level. >> i remember taking my then 9-year-old son to see it and we just sat there in 3-d awe. to be so immersed in that world was mind blowing. everything felt real. everything felt tangle. it felt like this world existed. >> "avatar" came out and became the highest grossi ining movie of all ...

So the reason rand paul got involved in this kristen gillibra gillibrand, new york center attempted to have a vote on the measure unanimously on the floor, which certainly would benefit her interest in shining a light on it. thats what rand paul objected to. as you heard from leader mcconnell, they plan to do a vote. mike lee of utah senator is saying he agrees with jon stewart, the, of course, comedian, actor and advocate for these 9/11 first responders who has so passionately put himself in th...

Seventh fleet? is this about training? is it about budgets? is this normal and were just maybe focusing on it more now? whats happening? >> the training issue continually comes up. that is a continual need of the military and our navy training capacity continually needs to be refined. thats been cited already in investigations. at a broader level, the american military is stretched, overstretched frankly and has been operating at a pace for years now -- just as we saw in afghanistan, weve been i...

Lets look at the house floor. they are debating right now. the bipartisan budget bill. you see paul ryan, the quarterback for the house on this, as hes chairman of the budget committee. tom, how tough a vote is this going to be for the democrats to vote yes on this budget deal that leaves 1.3 million behind, dealing with unemployment benefits where the unemployment rate is over 7%? >> its an incredibly difficult vote for democrats to make. this is a budget level below the original budget ryan th...

Mcconnell manage to -- >> thats -- i want to pick up, because the whole house piece, this is fascinating, but lets just -- i want to make sure we understand what it is that harry reid and the democrats are looking for here. this susan collins plan we were talking about yesterday morning, it would have extended the debt ceiling until the end of next january. >> right. >> it would have put in this, like, process, where supposedly the house and senate would agree on a long-term budget plan before -...

Solution to reopening the government. it is a political strategy. it is dymmekry. heres what we should do, and speaker boehner as an opportunity to end what he called a game in exactly 30 minutes from now. in 30 minutes, well go back to the floor of the house. house democrats will offer the republicans what they originally requested, their budget level. we will produce 80% of the votes necessary to pass the budget at their level and reopen the government. all were asking hem to do is coming up w...

Little bit in the senate and by that i mean this restart the government one section at a time which has passed in part in the house. today the the texas senator john cornyn tried to offer a bill to reopen the parks and museums and senator harry reid who runs the senate on the democratic side objected to that, stalling that idea. so were seeing a lot of these tactical moves playing out. plenty of talk going on, but not much in the way of progress and there is this expectation that what is happeni...

More because, of course, that is for some small businesses their budget level. chris? >> and one thing, a quick follow-up, did the white house -- do you have any indication did the white house expect the reaction they got on capitol hill yesterday? i assume with this proposal, which much of it isnt new. this is essentially the presidents budget proposal from last year, that they didnt think john boehner was going to say, that sounds good, lets do that. but did they expect the dismissiveness and ...

You. they do trust him. the thing paul ryan is above all is a good soldier. hes been playing a tough double game. hes coming to pundits and saying, look, im cutting medicare, doing something terrifying to seniors, im privatizing a lot of security social security. and they go, clap, clap, thats impressive youre saying that, but when the republican party trots him out and tells him what to say, he says it every time. so the budget level, the amount the government can spend according to the house o...