defense. bankrupt to lose the defense hold of your coalition? you re about defense hawk. where the two-thirds of republicans voted for this deal which proves they are not totally obsessed with sequester. a lot of them voted for silly reasons. they knew it would pass. if anything i think defense is being cut too much but that will be a debate republicans will have. they re not in perfect shape as a party. i would say if you think where they were a year ago, totally reeling after the romney defeat. in total disarray on the issues. the kinds of candidates that republicans have in 2014 in these races. they re better off than i expected. this last budget deal in part referencing got done largely without obama. should he maybe just step aside and let folks form coalitions on their own? well you wish. he wishes.
iran. i do think there is in some cases skepticism in terms of negotiating withgroups. on the other hand, and i ve seen that seen this with some of the potential 2016 republican presidential candidates, they re looking for a sort of third way, a midway between your traditional republican defense hawk and your democratic dove. and they re trying to talk about being strong militarily but being willing to rely on discussion and diplomacy. final issue, china. vice president biden over there, these talks about rising tensions over this air defense zone in the east china sea. it seems like china is spreading its wings a bit as far as what it s doing on a number of fronts. well, we had one strong response which was to send american warplanes into that
1234 we have evidence that programs like this have been abused. on the other hand the prism is only supposed to be foreign and not domestic spying. the fact that they couldn t figure out that he was e-mailing glen greenwold and going to do all of this stuff means that they weren t snooping on his e-mail. so maybe they are focused on that. and there is some question about just how this guy in this position got access to all of this stuff. and i am not a defense hawk, but i am a fan of ethan hawk. before midnight, i don t have to tell you it is a delight. it is not here nor there. i would like to purge you from the show. are you going to let me finish my thought? i made my movie pun and i am comfortable. continue. well, the great thing about what she wrote, she did not stop with i am adrift at sea. she kept going further. she referenced mermaids and she talked about how symbolic pirates are after her. the whole time you said yes, that is the blog entry a stripper would wri
contributions. and this says something about hagel, that he has this firepower behind him from both parties, but what should be the line of questioning? you know, where i would go is where i worry, sequestration and how harmful it will be if it goes into effect which it seems like it will in the next weeks because can cutting the defense budget with a sledgehammer is going to tank our economy. i mean, the downturn in economic growth, according to reports yesterday, is based spes ofcally on the cutbacks in defense spending and i m not against cutting defense spending. let me say that as someone who represented a district for 17 years, nine terms in the house. i m for a robust defense. i m called a defense hawk. on the other hand, there s a big tail in the defense department and a smooth tooth in the tail including the way health care is delivered there needs a second look. brad, you re very close to these house republicans. we heard paul ryan sunday on
i m a defense hawk, but the pentagon needs to do a better job when it comes to handling the people s money too. you can t close that gap between spending and the debt by just raising taxes on the two upper income tax breaking news, you havbrackets.you have to deal wig entitlements like medicare and social security. greta: what do you think is going to happen? will we go over the fiscal cliff, or a last-minute hustle and something will be packaged together, probably not very satisfactory to anyone, not likely to solve our nation s problems? well, i feel like it s more likely than not we will go off the cliff. i m not convinced that s not the president s plan. patty murray, one of the leading democrats, gave a specie a few weeks ago at brookings ago, said cliff in order to generate the additional taxes they want they would be willing to do so. i think that s incredibly reckless, because a lot of americans will be put out of work, the economy will crater,