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Prospects, they really thought they had a chance of making president obama a one-term president, and they made a really aggressive choice that year. they picked florida. tampa, florida. yes, tampa is best known as the death metal capital of america. tampa is also a major city in a major swing state. a pure tossup state with the diverse voting population, where any edge of any county could make the difference in the whole national election. here was a chance for a week long 3-d campaign ad in the...

Gregg: a new study putting the federal debt into perspective. our nation is currently $17 trillion in the hole and count. there you see the debt clock and the harvard study on federal spending says if the debt was equally divide among american workers their share would be $106,000 each. the report find that food stamp use has surged 77% during the recession. the social security benefits are on track to be slashed 23% in less than 20 years. charles payne joining us now. you look at these numbers ...

Reform and all of those things. this president likes his government super sized. this budget will never balance. and i think the president wants taxpayers to pay more so that washington can spend more >> what i read is he is asking for million in new spending. does that go anywhere? >> i dont think it does. last time he had a budget, not even any of the democrats voted for it. his policies make it harder to get back to work. >> $17.4 trillion is the debt clock. that is ridiculous. in three years...

Have happened, americans have shown they want the united states to pay their bills. >> and they want it tied to spending cuts. >> brad had a fact wrong. the deficit has been cut in half under obama. >> no, it has not. >> we are talking about the debt ceiling. if republicans want to keep going through this same show of having a debt ceiling showdown on a political issue they lose on over and over again, do it. >> the american people lose. the american people lose and the democrats continue to spe...

Intelligence on the ground. technical intelligence is great but there is that very, very important element of the american or the spy who can really get there on the ground to find out what is going on and it is so critical, that reporting is so critical to our national security in libya or any place else. jenna: this report says a lot of things and places a lot of blame but it doesnt say who is essentially accountable for this of course that will be an area of debate probably for the weeks and ...

So i think what will be in the deal, that remains to be seen. democrats want to end the sequester and republicans are saying they dont want to raise any taxes. i dont think you will see any type of grand bargain and what is in it remains to be seen. >> the big problem is still the 17 trillion plus debt. here is the debt clock. here it comes. there it goes. do you see the numbers? the deficit fell to $680 billion, the first time in five years it went under a trillion. how do you balance awful tha...

Where is her personal responsibility to say, yes, he was entitled to this. congress may be voting to allow me to have this. but i will say no because i have enough money.ts $174,000 becaust was the salary he was making at the time he died. that money has been paid to widowses of other lawmakers. >> you are talking about a $17 trillion debt. you have the debt clock spirals upwards every second of every day. this is how we get to $17 trillion in debt. talk about $174,000 and really in the whole sc...

Going to go. but as youve within saying with other guests that weve had on, just when we think the house is going to go one way, they go another way. this is a process question. its a question of how its going to happen, not whether its going to happen. how and when, not whether. >> and just again, the dow at 178, up. but the debt clock over on the far right, 12 hours, 23 minutes until this country is no longer to borrow money. congressional republicans say, listen, all we want is fiscal respo...

Even though theyre not going to get officially paid just yet. however, republicans say if you bring it to the floor we want amendments, so we can bring up proposals that we think the democrats prevented us from voting. the democrats only want to bring it to the floor if it has an up or down no changes vote. so snag is a polite word. >> there is the debt clock out there already, the white house says they could be ready for a short-term solution. >> the adviser saying look, if congress wanted to p...

Floor to demonstrate good will. they want to get out ahead of it and say look, when you come back to work you will be paid. they want to do that and encourage a lot of people to come back to work during the furlough pay. theyre not going to be officially paid just yet. however, republicans say if you bring it to the floor we want amendments, so we can bring up proposals that we think the democrats prevented us from voting. the democrats only want to bring it to the floor if it has an up or down ...