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They had their spurts and then puttered out. no one has been a long-term demagogue. >> the rest of the republican party is distancing themselves from ted cruz. sure there were some folks on the capitol steps. theyll have another fight an homeland security in february, maybe march. they want to get this off the table, get into the new year. youll find that in the senate more than in the house. theres almost no chance the government shuts down. i think what there is some concern about is it might ...

Party is distancing themselves from ted cruz. sure there were some folks on the capitol steps. theyll have another fight an homeland security in february, maybe march. they want to get this off the table, get into the new year. youll find that in the senate more than in the house. theres almost no chance the government shuts down. i think what there is some concern about is it might not be this full year omnibus and a short-term continuing -- if democrats hold their votes for this plan that boeh...

Alex, thanks for being here. you heard the flag was going to be retired at warriors way and then you decided to do what? >> we volunteered to buy them a new flag. and they asked if we would fly it over the capitol, but it was too big to fly over the capitol. the flag office said we cant do that. so we managed to contact the house committee on veterans affairs and they said they would hold it over the capitol steps. before that we were escorted to the 9-11 memorial, the pentagon, and we draped it...

Looking at. we know what is coming -- >> the cpo says it wont be as bad as we have been told. you say? >> if you bet against that youre likely to be a winner that lottery has been pretty consistent. the problem is, the republicans havent put forward a positive plan. i dope understand. 1994, newt gingrich organized a contract for american -- nobody really read it but had all the republicans standing on the hill, on the capitol steps, saying we support this. it gave the sense of idea of change and...

The headline there are there is george zimmerman leaving the jail in central florida where he bonded out for $9,000. >> sorry, shep, thank you very much. do any of you remember this? do they have the 216 votes theyre going to need to make the largest piece of domestic legislation law? are we going to have what some people have been calling new deal 2 a reality? the next 24 to 36 hours? [chanting] >> there are indications right now that he has reached a deal with the white house to support this b...

State-wide, illinois is very blue. which makes it all the more amazing that illinois has a senator, of course, senators are elected state-wide, illinois has a senator who is a republican. senator mark kirk was elected to fill the seat that was once held by president obama. after the rod blagojevich scandal of the governor essentially trying to sell that seat, the scandal that ultimately put governor blagojevich in prison, republican mark kirk is the man who eventually got that seat. senator kirk...

Jon: fox news alert. a number of democratic senators have taken to the podium on the capitol steps. where better to get a little publicity. there is senator barbara mikulski of maryland. theyre talking about the situation right now with regard to the debt ceiling earlier. senator harry reid, the majority leader said lets reopen the government, pay our bills, in other words, lift the debt ceiling and then well negotiate. republicans might change the order of that. they would like to get a negotia...

83% disapproval two years ago. ron paul asked members of congress to rally on the capitol steps, six republicans and one democrat showed up. with much of his staff furloughed, west virginia democrat senator joe mansion is answering his phone and speaking directly to his constituents. he hopes congress reaches an agreement soon. >> raising the debt doesnt fix the debt. ive been the first to say that. i want a long term solution to this short term problem we seem to have every three to six months....

Theres the car -- you are hearing some arabic that is apparently from the person who filmed the video. i want to bring in tom foreman to discuss what were watching. there is some foul language you might detect also, of course, gunshots. >> this is interesting, jake, because this is something we didnt really know is the car was clearly stopped. this is by the james garfield memorial, which is not very far from the capitol steps, really. when this car is cutting right here, it is cutting between t...

Barriers not been there, that woman would have been able to drive literally up the graduated steps straight up to the capitol steps. those were put in after 9/11, they did their job. those are massive steel pilings put into the ground, and so what we did after 9/11 to secure the capitol complex worked today. our precautions actually worked and thats a great thing. what did not work i think is when you see her go around that monument and then she goes back up and then she takes a right up constit...