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Together, an ad hoc group, not part of any other organization, and weve raised about $40 million just to be driving this point that its tax reform that raises more revenue, and its entitlement reform, the ticking time bomb, thats going to kill us. and weve got to do all of this at one time. so we are very supportive of the president being able to get something like this done. its vitally important for our economy. >> david cole, thank you very much. al sharpton, here is the issue. warren buffe...

Not as equals, but negotiating with the israelis like a country. there are some people here, by the way, not everybody here supports hamas, although that would be something for people in gaza not to say publicly these days. if you remember just yesterday, hamas was dragging behind motorcycles, people who were accused of being collaborators here. this is a, at times, ruthless government. there are people who say what this agreement has created is hamasastand. it has created a small, very poor, fa...

Country. there are some people here, by the way, not everybody here supports hamas, although that would be something for people in gaza not to say publicly these days. if you remember just yesterday, hamas was dragging behind motorcycles, people who were accused of being collaborators here. this is a, at times, ruthless government. there are people who say what this agreement has created is hamasastand. it has created a small, very poor, failed state that egypt now has to take the responsibility...

Country. there are some people here, by the way, not everybody here supports hamas, although that would be something for people in gaza not to say publicly these days. if you remember just yesterday, hamas was dragging behind motorcycles, people who were accused of being collaborators here. this is a, at times, ruthless government. there are people who say what this agreement has created is hamasastand. it has created a small, very poor, failed state that egypt now has to take the responsibility...

With the israelis like a country. there are some people here, by the way, not everybody here supports hamas, although that would be something for people in gaza not to say publicly these days. if you remember just yesterday, hamas was dragging behind motorcycles, people who were accused of being collaborators here. this is a, at times, ruthless government. there are people who say what this agreement has created is hamasastand. it has created a small, very poor, failed state that egypt now has t...

Mitchell, dennis ross, this is a unique opportunity for him to reinvigorate his middle east leadership and bring a new team in with new ideas and strategies to resurrect the commitments he made in cairo which is essential to u.s. long-term interest. >> the other relationship is the one between the president and prime minister -- mr. netanyahu, who actually praised the presidents diplomatic efforts within this. hes got an election coming up. its been something of a rocky relationship, if you will...

Of it deal is? >> well, i think we still need to see it implemented. having spent a lot of time in the middle east, done a lot of negotiations, one thing i know about this part of the world, nothing is concluded until you actually see it carried out. its one thing to talk about it. its something else to do it. so lets actually see the ceasefire take hold. what im hearing is that by midnight their time, which would be around 5:00 our time, thats when it might actually take hold. so if it does, th...

International community that israel will abide by these commitments. for its part israel says that the only condition it would accept is a complete cessation of rocket fire into southern israel and wants egypt to guarantee no more weapons will be smuggled into the gaza strip. both sides say they want to avert a war but really right now, they have demands and egyptian officials are hinting they have narrowed the gap between the two sides, but it really comes down to the guarantees in whether or n...

Toward that end. you upon, he went into gaza. while he was there, hamas launched more rockets, as a direct affront to that negotiated peace between egypt and israel that. piece is essential to u.s. security policy in the region. and so we are going to have to insist and mr. morsi honor that -- >> greta: what leverage do we have with him? >> well, i mean, certainly, there is a package of aid that the egyptians are asking for right now, for giveness of debt, is one aspect of that. you know, i thin...

Certainty to middle class families, 98% of family hospital make less than $250,000 a year, 97% of small businesses that their taxes will not go up a single dime. give them that certainty right now. we can get that done. we can then set up a structure where we are dealing with tax reform, closing loopholes. dealing with entitlements and im willing to make big commitments to make sure we are locking in the kind of deficit reductions that stabilize our deficit. start bringing it down. start bringin...