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Lamar alexander who had a balanced sense of where we are. the core problem is straight for. the liberal democrats wanna spend a lot more than we have. for good reason from their standpoint they want a much bigger government. the republicans and moderate democrats dont want to do that question now w what does the president do? no breakthrough today, interesting exercise. i suspect for most americans the real puzzle is, since this morning unemployment applications went up, why didnt we have the sa...

Closing remarks said he needs to hear from republicans. roll this and then ill ask you about it. >> id like the republicans to do a little soul searching and find out are there some things that youd be willing to embrace that get to this core problem of 30 million people without health insurance and dealing seriously with the preexisting condition issue. i dont know, frankly, whether we can close that gap. bill: is he right? >> well, that 30 million people, of course, half of that is an expansio...

A situation where as tom harkin put it, healthy people, young people, rich people, poor people, old people, sick people, everybody is part of the system that works. that, i think, is the concern. having said that, what i would like to propose is that i have put on the table now some things that i didnt come in here saying i supported. but that i was willing to work with potential republican sponsors on. i would like the republicans to do a little soul-searching and find out are there things that...

A system that works. that is the concern. having said that, what i would like to propose is i put on the table now things i didnt come in here saying i supported but willing to work with the potential republican sponsors on. id like republicans to do soul searching to see if there are things youd be willing to embrace to get to the core problem of 30 million people without health insurance in dealing seriously with the preexisting condition issue. i dont know frankly whether we can close that ga...

Is something the u.s. government doesnt have much control over. thats been the core problem with blackwater and the use of other private security firms. >> these companies and their prevalent use in the iraq and afghanistan wars, this was the brain child of dick cheney who stood to profit personally from this. is there a practical element to this whistle blower suit? could it in some way bring this company down or at least slow it down? >> i dont know. we have to note that this is a lawsuit in w...

Diplomats, but putting all that aside, in this lawsuit and in other previous allegations, the issue of the use of excessive force in iraq and afghanistan continue to plague blackwater. to me that still is the heart of the issue here because what were doing, what weve done, not we, not you and i, but what the bush/cheney administration did was to privatize this government responsibility, protecting our own diplomats and handed out to blackwater and other private security firms and has no accounta...

In the square in iraq that theres been an excessive use of force which is done in our name to protect our diplomats, theoretically, but it is something the u.s. government doesnt have much control over. thats been the core problem with blackwater and the use of other private security firms. >> these companies and their prevalent use in the iraq and afghanistan wars, this was the brainchild of dick cheney who stood to profit personally from this. is there a practical element to this whistleblower...

At it globally, we have nations in asia, china, japan, and others, that dont have enough domestic consumption. they need to consume more, and they need to save less. >> and we need to save more and consume less. and its these global imbalances, basically our trading partners, loaning us money so that we could live beyond our means. thats what this whole thing, a core problem that led to this whole thing that we havent fixed yet. >> if you want to understand it, its the same as our own credit car...

Upon the people, its dependent on a certain elite. but the elite is a set of lobbyist whos have extraordinary control over the way that washington works or doesnt work. thats the core problem and source of frustration that both sides should be able to agree on. >> interesting. >> thank you very much, lawrence lessig. >> a great article. go to "the nation" and read it its about congress. whether you are on the right or the left, this is an important read. you know, mika, i just got to say this ab...

To quote here. an outrage and insult. how do you hand handy cap the possibility of using tarp funds? >> i think it will be flfblg. even though that the money was earmarked once it was paid by by the banks, the obama budget has been released but members of congress are going to throw up their hands, yes, we should go to debt reduction. but the public upset about job creation is even more than the upset about the deficit. >> gregg: this thing about tax breaks for employers who hire unemployed work...