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carlyle group, david rubenstein. then i have a lot to talk about with an all-star panel. arianna huffington, mort zuckerman on the gop race, the economy, the euro, iran, all kinds of things. next up, what do the shipyard in tahrir square have in common? a lot. ill explain. first, heres my take. i spent the last few weeks working on an essay for "time magazine" on barack obamas foreign policy, and in association with that piece, i interviewed the president last wednesday in the oval off...

Story for us at the top of the hour live on capitol hill. mike, it looks like this vote is not going to get the kind of tussle that we saw before christmas. >> reporter: that is right, we do expect some arguing, martha. bottom line house republicans say it keeps the focus on the government spending problem, our massive growing debt problem. in the end its expected to pass the house but not go beyond that. here is the lead sponsor of the bill on todays resolution vote. >> what this will do is sen...

Raised the debt crisis through the roof so democrats are calling this essentially a game, saying yes, we have to address the debt problem, but this vote, today; not going to do that, and, so, this is the first of many spending fights we will see in the coming months and we will bring you the results as soon as we have them. >>shepard: thank you from the rotunda, thank you. the country singer garth brooks is suing a hospital in oklahoma to get back half a million he donated. he says he gave the m...

his tax rate, mitt romney reveals his tax rate. fair or unfair? and fact or not? are the congress members back in session refresh and ready to change the world -- or not? lets go "outfront." well, good ooevening, everyone. im erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after -- well, that may have been a bizarre and appropriate slip of the tongue. but members are back in the house today to make up for frankly an abysmal 2011. the t...

want to talk about what is going to happen in washington. places like mexico on taxpayer junkets, and we will be joined we have had divided governments in the past and everyone says it is not worse, but they fixed it and got better and that is the american can-do way. all right. we want congress the feel the heat, but see the light. lets make them work. we are joined by congressman sewell from new york, and congresswoman grimm. i am glad you are smiling after the intro, but you are sit...

world. lets go outfront. well, good evening, everyone. im erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after four weeks away from washington, the house is returning to work today, hopefully rested and ready to make up for an abysmal 2011. the track record. full of failures. they didnt raise the debt ceiling which caused americas credit rating to be cut which hurts all of us. and they didnt agree on a budget. causing several near shutd...

$10 billion a week. ok? those are staggering numbers. i suspect that this -- theres going to be a fight over raising the debt ceiling this week. this is going to happen -- or next week. but theres going to be a fight that will refocus the nations attention on this awful debt problem. maybe take it away from bain capital, you know, your pals and actually move it back and put debt center stage all over again. >> you know, the problem is on capitol hill the republicans have advanced an agenda and a...

one of the most conservative members of the senate, jim demint, joins us. lets go "outfront." tonight, this. this is a letter from president barack obama. he just sent it to house speaker john boehner. it says, quote, further borrowing is required because the debt is limit to -- is right now close to, well, 11 zeros and a one. that means we need more money. the presidents asking congress to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. we knew this was coming because this was part of the de...

some of the most conservative members of the senate, jim demint, joins us. lets go, outfront. this is a letter from president barack obama. he just sent it to house speaker john boehner. it says, quote, further borrowing is required because the debt is limit to -- is right now close to, well, 11 zeros and a one. >> 100 billion. that means we need more money. the presidents asking congress to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. we knew this was coming because this was part of the d...

>> last night, we brought you a shocking picture of what appeared to be u.s. marines urinating on the taliban. tonight, we have the video and audio. were going to play them for you and were finding out the identities of the marines thought to be involved, and who is responsible for the murder of a top iranian scientist. and the bottom line, president obamas request to congress to increase the debt ceiling. some of the most conservative members of the senate, jim demint, joins us. lets ...