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The national weather service warning this winter snow could turn into significant flooding in the spring, thats going to happen, the question is where. cities like minneapolis, st. louis, fargo, north dakota, all at risk when it starts melting in mid march. 9:31. martha: well, there is a high stakes showdown going on in the capitol over how to pass this years budget, 2011 budget, just to keep the government up and running, so republican leaders in the house are sticking to their guns when it com...

Calendar that was set by the new majority. if i had my way we ought to continue, but the new majority set the calendar and when the majority is in, they set the calendar. last year, when we first started we were working five days a week and we barely have been working and this is the new calendar the majority has set up. >> that deadline will be moved forward, right, we will go beyond the deadline? >>guest: let me tell you. we saw what speaker boehner said and he said he did not want to do a tem...

Now it is only the 15 percent, but the 85 percent, the entitlements, that we have to look at and if there is a way to do entitlement reform without hurting or without bringing down the benefits we ought to take a look at it. >> and your thoughts on defense spending? you talk a big part of the 85 percent is the pentagon. >> i am strong pro defense and we need to continue because a core mission we have as a country, as a government, is to provide the security of our country, the military has to be...

Not theyre going to buck leadership even if leadership says we cant let that happen about no doubt its a fight, as were going to have to have some showdown in the next several days over the cr. so, yeah, its going to get really ugly. again, its going to be the kind of conversation, though, where everybody wants to talk about cuts but we need to remember cuts have a real impact on real people. when people have a better sense of what it means in their lives, thats a different conversation. >> i wa...

Hes talking about his angle here. lets listen. >> i am not going to move any kind of short term cr at current levels. when we say were going to cut spending, read my lips. were going to cut spending. >> i dont know why he went back to george sr. there, but george sr. read my lips one of the greatest comment, read my lips cost him his job. this guy doesnt have the same stuff as newt gingrich. im no fan of gingrich on many levels but gingrich was ice cold. this guy doesnt look ice cold. >> well, g...

Ability to investigate, and i know youve talked about investigating everything from wikileaks, to afghan aid, to fannie mae, to the stimulus program and the bank bailout, all of it. let me ask you something about what you said on rush limbaughs program of president obama. hes been one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times. what did you mean? >> well, first of all, i walked back from that very quickly as a misstatement. the corrosive or corrupting influence of loose money in washington d...

The effects of malt liquor in combination with marijuana out of there, as we need to study whether or not thats bad. there are so many things that are still being spent at a time when were borrowing $12.6 trillion this year. everyone is following wisconsin. were having a hard time taking 7% of the deficit out of cr, and its keeping us here day after day just trying to cut that small amount. weve got to stop thinking that the money belongs to washington. weve got to get to where it belongs to the...

If we cant agree on that, then were not going to be able to pass the cr. wefz -- continuing recent lose -- we have to cut the current stop gap measure before well go for it, so what do we have now? we have senate leadership, senator reid coming out, saying that im sorry speaker boehner cant control his tea party caucus and now is threatening to shut down the government. then you have boehner going, listen, if the government is shut down, its the democrats that are going to blame for it. so there...

>> our goal here is to cut spending. but i am not going to move any kind of short-term cr at current levels. when we say were going to cut spending, read my lives -- were going to cut spending. >> we want to bring in our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. its an interesting choice of words, simply because we should also mention that george w. bush lost his reelection bid, and a lot of people think it was, in large part, because he broke that promise. its a dangerous blast from the pas...

United states government. the entity that he leads has a deteriorating financial condition and it could have its own debt crisis within three to five years if it doesnt change course. he needs to lead. >> what about the argument that if he puts something out there, savannah guthrie was on the program earlier, and he said that their strategy is to play his cards close to the vest, my words, not theirs, and wait to see what the other side proposes, see if theres anything that come toufs senate neg...