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Major tests facing congressmen, we mentioned earlier, congress did not pass a farm bill this year, play big deal for a long time to a rare big ticket item, the consensus between the two parties t. farm bill went nowhere in 2013. the hangup has to do with food stamps, the senate reached a deal t. house wanted deep cuts for the food stamps and agriculture subsidies. other members started tagging on dra conian amendments. the whole deal went belly-up. >> what happened is you turned a bipartisan bil...

Having said that, is it a type of progress, particularly in getting rid of some of those damaging sequester spending cuts next year? >> yeah, sort of meets the definition of compromise, right? like, both of them -- everybody on each side is a little bit upset. yes, it does. the great thing is, it restores some of the deep spending cuts. but i think one of the things we forget to do is step back in the midst of these really pitched budget battles. the reality is, though, ari, we are still at a re...

And north carolinas legislature turned completely red for the first time since reconstruction. and that, of course, has brought about not only the voting rights role back that has made north carolina nationally famous this year, and the abortion rights role back and the short-lived attempt to establish a state religion in the state. remember that one? its also been a wildly aggressive approach to budgeting in the state, spearheaded by the guy who made it all possible for the republicans, spearhe...

His network targeted, they won 18 of the 22. thats an 82% win rate. and north carolinas legislature turned completely red for the first time since reconstruction. and that, of course, has brought about not only the voting rights rollback that has made north carolina nationally famous this year, and the abortion rights rollback and the short-lived attempt to establish a state religion in the state. remember that one? its also been a wildly aggressive approach to budgeting in the state, spearheade...

On the right very, very far right, which is to say now paul ryans budget did certain things and rand pauls budget did even more. it balances the budget in five years. and that then sort of almost becomes a test. >> reducing the amount of tax revenue as some folks on the right would like to as in mitt romneys proposal or in rand pauls proposal requires really cutting deeply into the budget. that is unpopular. understanding this dynamic on the right is important to understanding the stagnation wev...

Republicans who just a few weeks ago were cheering on the idea of a sequester. and saying that we had to make these very deep, immediate cuts, on top by the way. of cuts that we already made two years ago. very deep cuts, but cuts that are manageable. but our republican colleagues said we got to keep the sequester in place, their budget calls for a doubling of the sequester cuts in the areas of the budget were talking about. the faa, the fbi, national institutes of health. the best way that mitc...

In a particular school, a very special school. so are jurisdictions beginning to blame this on the sequester? is this really the sequester kicking in? >> well, look, theres no free lunch at the end of the day. the reality is, we can and should make cuts wherever possible. if theres waste in the budget, it should be eliminated, we should find efficiencies. but as i indicated, two years ago we cut over $1.2 trillion from this whole portion of the budget. that goes to things like head start. that g...

We begin in china where two more people died from a new strain of bird flu bringing the death toll to 20. health officials say there are 102 cases reported of those 70 still in the hospital. the source of the infection has not yet been identified. next to australia where a fisherman has a painful run in with a 10-foot shark. the man was fishing with his brother thats when a gray nurse shark bit him on both legs giving him deep cuts. he is recovering in a local hospital and is expected to be okay...

To be making deep cuts to government spending. >> do you think the latest numbers give the gop any leverage to giveend the sequest? >> when you take a look wall street and you take a look at the dow, things are improving, but when you take a look at main street, theyre not improving. what the democrats are hearing from their constituents, theyre saying do something and do it now. but the hard left together need to come up with some kind of compromise. it doesnt look like its going to happen any ...

Altar of deep cuts and an austerity philosophy. >> i want to bring the panel in because you know, the congressman talks about making smart cuts now. whats in it for democrats to do any grand bargaining at all. any savings that would be applied in cutting the budget, would not be applied to their priorities. its not as if youre going to reduce government spending on x and spend it more on the poor, spend it more on things democrats care b. why are democrats arguing for a budget at all? >> you and...