happens. for all of these reasons or more the national debt tops 13 trillion dollars. some estimate it s growing at the staggering rate of $5 billion every single day. here s the question. is everyone serious about tackling the nation s deepening financial crisis? go to cnn.com/cafferty file. give us your thoughts. if you have a fame. please sthar share it. great question. stand by. want to go to dana bash. there s a new development involving the united states senator and u.s. justice department. dana, what are we lrping? that s right. senator john enson of nevada, if you remember a couple years ago got into hot water bus he allegedly helped his former chief of staff get a job, with impropriety after he was having an affair with senator ensign s
this bill in the senate, when moving into the obviously the hole dace and the senate is up to its eyeballs with a lot of work that it s trying to get done. i say, talk to sources who say don t count us out. we are trying to get this through. we think we can. this isn t the first time the senate screwed up on a parliamentary issue like this, is it? no. just in recent months, by our count this is the third time. third time. they got to start getting their act together in the united states senate. thanks very much. briauna. briauna keiler up on the hill. republicans and congress stand ready to block the democrats agenda and get accused of holding the senate hostage. will the strategy work? the congressman labels president obama, and i m quoting, urban. that story and more. cnn. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription.
jack is back with the cafferty file. jack? the question this hour, when it comes to afghanistan, what exactly is the point? frank writes, they say the point is to protect us from the terrorists. but the only reason they attack us is because we invaded their homelands. tim in texas writes, the point is to keep al qaeda boxed in rather than having free rein to have wide-ranging operations in afghanistan. actually, if we can get a power-sharing deal between karzai and the taliban, we might achieve limited success. success being defined as having limited al qaeda ability to design and implement large-scale terror attacks. that said, i fully support having a date to begin withdrawing our troops. colby writes, the point is that if we leave, there will be a power vacuum just like after be helped afghanistan repel the soviets. back then, we pulled out because
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let s get right back to jack for the cafferty file. the question this hour is how much do attack ads, political attack ads damage our faith in our leaders? conor in chicago writes, this is nothing new in american politics. andrew jackson s opponents called his mother a horse in a popular nupt of the time. she, of course, wasn t, but people ate it up then just as they do now. if the method is tried and true, do you really fault the politicians. dan in virginia writes the sad thing is in general attack ads work. a lot of elections are determined by who can scare the most voters. maybe then we would stop voting in the two sets of idiots under the short-term memory induced