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The talking filibuster says if we have a vote on closing debate and 41 or more senators say we want to keep debating, then there actually has to be debate. no more of this, no, gist objected to unanimous consent and you have to get 60. no, if you vote for more debate, you have to keep at least one person on the floor debating. >> senator, debate would mean debate under your proposal. >> it would mean debate. and it does two things. it means a frivolous filibuster is much more likely because some...

The verge of exactly that. the republican governor, rick snyder, is debating whether to sign a new bill that would allow concealed weapons in churches and schools. gop lawmakers passed a bill last week late at night in a lame duck session, literally, literally just hours before the tragedy at sandy hook. now snyder says hell give the bill extra consideration. what that consideration is will be looked at through the lens of everything thats happened. the governor seems to understand that everythi...

He has been called to speak to it mostly in response to tragedies like today. but when you look at his remarks combined over time in full, its just a remarkable chronicle of not just what he has said. what he said must be done. but it is a remarkable chronicle of what has not yet been done. >> it is part of our nature to demand explanations, to try to impose some order on the chaos, to make sense out of that which seems senseless. already weve seen the national conversation commence, not only ab...

Has spoken to this issue before today. he has been called to speak to it mostly in response to tragedies like today. but when you look at his remarks combined over time in full, its just a remarkable chronicle of not just what he has said. what he said must be done. but it is a remarkable chronicle of what has not yet been done. >> it is part of our nature to demand explanations, to try to impose some order on the chaos, to make sense out of that which seems senseless. already weve seen the nati...

Realize the debt is not a near term problem. the massive unemployment and sluggish growth is the ek noomic problem. we need more stimulus and the idea that he did what he did, making these extraordinary commitments that you keep interest rates low from unemployment for the first time. it is going to be until unemployment is below 6.5%. we cant let the one unelected guy be responsible for carrying the weight of trying to boost demand in an economy that is reeling and coming out from under that ep...

♪ ♪ >> andrea: we still havent stopped debating from the "a" block in the commercial break, but were going to another topic. the new bin laden raid movie "zero dark thirty" appeared last night in los angeles. its based on the story of a real-life c.i.a. agent who successfully tracked down the worlds most wanted terrorist. there appears to be drama about the same spy off-screen as well. according to the "washington post," the unidentified operative was passed over for a big promotion, after t...

Hand of someone who as he said in his press conference won the election. there is no compromise here. i think there is a fiscal cliff and there is a political cliff. the president has the upper hand. taxes go up in the way his base want on wealthy people and what he wants to do is say if you dont go along with me you republicans are responsible for raising taxes on the middle class and will be responsible for the recession thats almost certain to come. >> there is no serious debating over avoidi...

That will benefit employers and i think in the long run make it more possible for them to continue to offer the insurance directly. >> youre saying if it uses the mechanisms that are in place in the law, particularly using medicare and medicaid payments to reform the ways that health care are delivered to put an emphasis on quality as opposed to essentially quality, thats going to bring costs down and help everyone. >> it should if we follow through with the implementation of the affordable care...

Washington are going to do, they sit on the sidelines. i want certainty. i think theres ways to get an agreement in washington. but it doesnt have to mean higher rates. it can mean lower rates and eliminating loopholes. >> but, governor, my question is about -- >> david, if we get there, well grow. what will we get out of him? well get a movement towards a balanced budget. a stabilization of taxes and for some people, a tax cut. and we will have regulators that will use common sense and not over...

Higher rates.e it can mean lower rates and eliminating loopholes. weve got to get off of overregulating small businesses. if we get that, well grow. what will we get out of him? a movement towards a balanced budget. a stabilization of taxes and for some people, a tax cut. and we will have regulators that will use common sense and not overdo it. we have strong regulations here on oil and gas that on fracking, the toughest in the country, but we dont overdo it when people understand certainty, the...