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Hatter, and that is from a news magazine. >> well, it is a "take one to know one" moment but it is a given on the right. we go into the situations knowing we are less allowed to be loud as ted cruz in the senate. you are going to be calls crazy. you will be called racist quicker and it is bad for debate that conservatives know when they speak up they are going to get these attacks. the same is true when a tea party gatorring happens. >> i point out from ted cruzs own side, the established republ...

Raised money. >> i dont think they were the inty -- instigators. >> couldnt it be said that the media profited from this with a lot of the cable ratings up? >> absolutely. listening to the news radio, they had countdown to breakdown or whatever and it is endless. we talk about the politicians going crisis to crisis, the media goes crisis to crisis and the ratings go up. >> and thed advertisers are happy. >> let me play a couple of interviews by news anchors, not professional commentators. one is...

Our youth is to get them excited about nasa and space. >> who doesnt like nasa? steve stockman loves it. which employees more than 3,000 people. stockman has fought to get them money. he railed dwens the effects of sequestration and now, hes introduces the keith nasa open act to never be affected by a future government shutdown. those two headlines on his website piled atop each other tell you everything you need to know about understand about the modern republican party, modern conservatives an...

By the news media. just as so many stories were during the election last year. in each case, he writes, the publics interest quickly waned once the news cycle turned over to another story. most political stories have a fairly short half-life and wont turn out to be as consequential as they seem at the time. lets talk about it with howard kurtz, the host of "media buzz." so was this all much ado about nothing, howard? >> i wouldnt say that, jon. im going to try not to be too sure of myself. jon j...

Crisis here. and all of these deals, backroom deals being cut, like the ones we saw last night absolutely do not address the central problems that the united states faces as the worlds superpower today. and i dont think that this latest deal, which as one of your commentators pointed out, is filled with pork as well. this wont bring down the $17 trillion worth of debt. this isnt going to do anything at all to weaken obama care coming in, which frankly is a huge burden for the u.s. economy and fo...

In the senate as well as republicans would agree on. youre for repeal of course. because theres a lot of medical device companies in pennsylvania. so i heard liberal commentators say, that seems like a reasonable counter offer from house republicans. good. maybe this will be done. but immediate lit white house, and i believe harry reid said no. were not going to do that. ultimately, i guess, that bargaining technique worked to a degree. but i think if you could explain why no was the default the...

Is it stand in the end zone or a lot of work to do and weve got to move on? and the second part of my question is, the democrats -- i dont understand why they would agree to do some sort of budget negotiation before the end of the year because what this deal hinged on was what you mentioned on the sequester cap. if republicans can claim that as a win, the democrats are going to come back. they want to bust those caps anyway. the democrats believe that the problem is that we dont spend enough, no...

The struggle in the deal in congress, right up until tonight every time a politician says theyre close to a deal, still another politician saying theyre still a long way to go. >> i think well get an agreement today. >> were not there yet. >> i think its going pretty well. the adults have taken over. >> there have been no decisions about what we will do. >> a tentative agreement has been reached. >> this is not a compromise. its a hostage taking. >> why are they doing this to the american people...

People and apparently according to a lot of republican commentators do a lot of harm to the republican party. we need to get beyond this for the sake of the country. >> two other quick topics on some of the big issues youre talking about. nsa, "washington post" has another revelation saying the nsa is collecting e-mail contact lists not just of foreigners but americans. how do you justify that you? >> as you know, im not in a position to discuss specific tools or processes. as you know, the nati...

Its already, you can measure the change on the annual deficit, and its painful, people dont like it, but its forcing us to make hard decisions. so my guess is we probably stay with those numbers that are in the budget control act of 2011. i know there are people that would like to raise those and people that would like to lower those, but my guess is we end up staying with those numbers. >> lastly, senator, i do want to touch on a cultural issue that maybe you can shed light on for our viewers. ...