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about it t senate or is it about the senators? or is in the end is it about an institution or is it politics? >> when i started to cover the senate almost 40 years ago, charlie, the issues were, if anything, more divisive. they were still the remnants of the civil rights struggles, there was the vietnam war, watergate, impeachment. but there was the sense and there was some bitter fights back then, but there was the sense that when we can lets try to find consensus, lets work together ...

charlie, the issues were, if anything, more divisive. they were still the remnants of the civil rights struggles, there was the vietnam war, watergate, impeachment. but there was the sense and there was some bitter fights back then, but there was the sense that when we can lets try to find consensus, lets work together on things. that sense as george captured in his piece does not exist today. >> the senates always been designed to say a restraining influence. as ive said? the past, th...

anything, more divisive. they were still the remnants of the civil rights struggles, there was the vietnam war, watergate, impeachment. but there was the sense and there was some bitter fights back then, but there was the sense that when we can lets try to find consensus, lets work together on things. that sense as george captured in his piece does not exist today. >> the senates always been designed to say a restraining influence. as ive said? the past, theres always been checks and b...

the civil rights struggles, there was the vietnam war, watergate, impeachment. but there was the sense and there was some bitter fights back then, but there was the sense that when we can lets try to find consensus, lets work together on things. that sense as george captured in his piece does not exist today. >> the senates always been designed to say a restraining influence. as ive said? the past, theres always been checks and balances. everyones in check but no one niece charge. as a...

Groups insist warren is not merely a entirely candidate but the only person for the job, however, opposition to warren on wall street and in the gop recently led christopher dodd, democratic chair of the finance committee and principal orgtect of the law to create this agency that says warrens ability to win confirmation is, quote, a serious question. this assertion, the presidents top spokesman pointedly rejected even as he made clear that warren has not gotten a lock on the job. >> i think eli...

the severity of the injuries, some reports particularly out of germany where the pilots were based, german nationals, and lufthansa has a cargo division in germany and they had flown in from frankfurt. its said that the pilot and copilot were okay and im reading other reports thatry were rushed to a riyhad hospital, a military hospital and are not okay. it may be difficult to get reports out of this. the flight, an indy cargo plane was giving 11 tons of unspecified cargo so we dont kno...

Sell you on the fact that somehow ronald reagan would support this. if he were here, i wish the republicans would do more of this, they said say in 1996, hud retired banks to give 42% of loans to people who could not afford to pay them back and in 2005, increased it to 52% under the median income range. its interesting that fannie and freddie, barney frank, christopher dodd, none of these people who were involved in tearing down the economy of this country in fact are mentioned in fixing the pro...

we have a problem with the tea party tall redding racism in their ranks. >> we have always denounced raisrace is on. >captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> they are the toughest restrictions on banks on wall street since the great depression. some people say they do not go far enough. the final senate vote came 22 months yet to the collapse of lehman brothers. democrats say the reforms will bring more oversight and transparency. republicans say the federa...

white house throwing them into the bus. >> also, why are house democrats feeling unloved by the white house? >> we have no problem with the tea party. we have a problem with them tolerate racism in their ranks. >> the naacp takes on the tea party. >> we have always denounced racism and recall it out whether it is tea party crashers from the left are members who have attended our events. >> these are the toughest restrictions on banks since the great depression but some people say it do...

away from a government of the people to a government of the regulator. >> goldman sachs takes a half billion dollar hit from the feds and bp caps the oil spill. >> i understand that the house democrats are angry because they see the white house throwing them under the bus. >> also, why are house democrats feeling unloved by the white house? >> we have no problem with the team reported but there toleration of racism in their ranks. >> we have always denounced racism and called out wheth...