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The economy. he says there are signs in the housing market and other places that things are picking up, and it does feel like they are putting that debt issue to rest, at least for the moment, and that they dont think that they have to answer to republicans at all on that, neal. >> reporter: they are much convince towed that. they are looking at the housing you eluded to, they are looking at the improving financial market and the higher tax rates that they say are adding a lot to revenues in was...

That the debt is okay, is john manard keynes, saying its keynesian economics. but its not. he would have said its limited and the long-term deep structural debt you dont pay for, he would have rolled over in his grave. >> bret: prediction time. we are, well, week-and-a-half from the "state of the union." are we going to see president obama address the issues, deaf, deficit, entitlement reform and tax reform in a big way? >> i think he has shown for four years he has zero interest in the debt iss...

>> yes, medicare violated federal law by giving over $120 million to illegal immigrants and inmates. this is what happens when you have a big, bloated government, and now medicare is saying, oh, we dont know how to recuperate the funds. we dont have the tools or database, so its just frustrating and disappointing to see the government throw away our money. >> there was a story about a year or so ago where the irs was sending checks to inmates that didnt deserve checks as well. >> exactly. what t...

Carrieses 250 passengers. they have the batteries in the center the investigation. three minutes past the hour. martha. martha: back to see now where the house majority leader says they will have a vote tomorrow on the debt issue. guess what they will do? they will be allowed to keep borrowing money through may 19th. they will hit the debt ceiling mid-february. this pushes this whole thing back a couple months. doug mckelway is live in washington with the story. doug, surprise, surprise, right? ...

For no30% say they will be better off. we have chris wallace. how are you doing. >> im doing fine. bill: its remarkable how this mood has just continued for so many years. and when you see the response in that poll it is still job number one, and that is the economy. >> absolutely, what is there to be optimistic about? here we had the fiscal cliff, the reason we had the fiscal cliff was because this was such a terrible prospect that they of course, our leaders would find some way to avoid it, an...

N.f.l. referees are more popular. >> bret: playing a political game. last word, charles. >> if we keep spending like this we will have a president in a few years that will stand up and say we are unable to pay social security, or the military or benefits. and not because of self-imposed crisis on a debt ceiling but we will be out of money. that is what the republicans are trying to avert. the president is playing this likebe a demagogue notto pretend we dont have a debt issue. we do. that is han...

Executive order the president of the united states can issue that is going to override the second amendment to the united states constitution. vice president biden could be making statements or saying whaefr wants about executive orders and tax actions but the fact of the matter is that second amendment snot going to be overwrite writen bit president of the united states. it should be challenged but there is a connection, sean, between that issue and the debt issue. this idea nancy pelosi has be...

And were not meeting our own needs for our people here at home and yet america is just expanding around the globe. we have to start focusing on the real needs of this country, and when we do that, we also need to look at the structure of how we handle our money, because, it is out of control. people are concerned about having a disinmr. ed approach towards spending. theyre absolutely right. it is a question of priorities. we have to go back over that. but you dont send a country over the edge wh...

Being able to express a federal voice for us. they voted to have this president come back in. this isnt a big bait and switch. the president ran on this, campaigned on this, it was driven into the ground through social media, news coverage, newspaper headlines. what part of it is a bait and switch to republicans that they did not realize taxes were going to go up on the wealthiest of americans. it was going to have to be, you need to pay more because we have to get out of this spending issue we ...

Little bit to the right on most issues. >> karen, should we even try to label the country as center left, center right? why do that? >> we shouldnt actually. i think those labels really do a disservice to try to really understand whats going on in the country and where people really are. peer research does a fantastic study every year. they call it their political topography poll. they look at democrats and republicans and the full spectrum. its fascinating. theres all kinds of places where ther...