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>> im christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the presidents plan. he has another solution and its simply says, spend less. >> im ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this "american morning." thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to "american morning." we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this de...

And so im hopeful once this document comes out, once we pass it in the house well see reaction on the part of the president and the democrats in the senate. because so far, what weve heard out of leader reed is that social security doesnt even have a problem. so we really, i think, need to be honest with the people, confront these problems and get on to the issue of tax reform. all this is about how were going to attract more business to start investing here to create jobs. thats what all this i...

Food stamps. ten years ago people would have said food stamps are just for the very, very poor. these programs affect and help everybody. cut programs for autism, and youre cutting into the heart of middle-class families trying desperately to pay for the services their kids need. this is not just an assault against the poor. its really going to be an assault against virtually everyone in society. there has to come a point about it breaks the tolerance of the public. look, understand that governo...

Estate bust enunemployment, it was hit by cold winter and the city runs the areas power, gas and water systems. >> people came in and said, we cant pay utility rates. council decided to lower utility rate to electricity, its called a power cost adjustment. when they lowered that that reduced anticipated revenue by $250,000 for the remainder of this fiscal year. >> reporter: the city put land up for sale, borrowed money, furloughed employees and cut programs. even that wasnt enough to save what m...

As the city was dealing with problems like tax dollars and the real estate bust and unemployment, it was hit by a cold winder and the city runs the power, gas, and water systems. >> people came in and said the council decided to lower the utility rate for electricity. its called a power cost adjustment. when they lowered that, that reduced anticipated revenue by $250,000 for the remainder of this year. we already had a shortfall. >> theyre put land up for sale and furloughed employees and cut pr...

For everything. >> yes. >> and schools are saying, you know, theyve had to increase fees and cancel classes and cut programs and cut programs and furloughed professors and reduced classes especially in california. but some state college administrators are saying even with the tuition hikes theyre still not meeting their budget needs, a real problem. >> yeah, were hearing from some of the students, look, we might feel a little bit better about this if you would simply offer us a little more trans...

To raise taxes. this is not about really washington saying gosh, weve been a spending spree, gee where i whiz its sad every american owes $40,000 as his or her share of the national debt. thats more than a lot of americans make and thats how much they owe as that portion of the national debt. this is teeing it up so democrats say we dont have a choice, were under pay go and have to raise taxes because we cant cut programs. >> for who? >> everybody. the president is now sort of taking off the tab...

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Courts, the u.s. and israel. the people of the united states are not the obama audience. the best result is over the other side, over in tehran. they get to see how serious we are. they build a weapon, we come at them. if they know that now, it could change everything. and thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. thanks, chris. thanks to you for tuning in. tonights lead, dont believe the hype. all the gops talk about change is ju...

Or department that needed cutting, we cut it. i will repeal obama care, and cut programs that we simply cannot afford. >> willard wants to rob the poor to pay the rich. but obamas work is paying off. a fight about fairness, that is the conversation we need to have in this election. joining me now, former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, now an nbc news political analyst, and jared anstein a former chief economist for joe biden. thank you both for being here tonight. governor, let me start with ...