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Democrats or women, pushing more democrats into office in the fall. what do you think about that. >> thats a concern. i understand that concern and thats why its challenging to formulate those questions and do it in a careful, thoughtful way. no question that thats a deficit challenge, but at the same time, remember, the democrats have four women on the committee as well. so there are women on the committee as well and clearly, you know, the democrat members are going to have every opportunity t...

Supported his proposals were in congress. its what he believes is a fair and balanced approach to the deficit challenge. >> the white house says the burden of cutting the deficit falls on the backs of the poor and middle class. >> what is the white house saying. >> the plan is growing criticism from the right and the left. john boehner says the cuts are needed to save programs and shouldnt be conditioned on tax hikes in a written statement boehner criticized the december deficit proposal the bud...

shes 77 years old and she said time has come. she was okay with it. >> reporter: shes had quite a long time of being the most decorated olympian ever, hasnt she? upsteps michael phelps and it was widely expected to happen. it had been disappointing to this point but he is now the most successful olympian ever after picking up the silver and gold in the relay. the big question here, does that mean hes the greatest olympian ever because he has the most medals, is he the greatest or shoul...

this pros he united in our belief the nations fiscal crisis must be addressed and that we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve. that statement, issued in congress. the super committee must not end. the president said if congress tries to get around the automatic cuts, called for in the law that created the super committee, he will veto it. >> my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending...

focusing their attention on mitt romney. paul is standing by. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he...

Companies.ç is senator menendez, great to have you here. >> good to be with you, cenk. >> all right. youre going to bring in the oil executives. my guess is theyll say they still need the, and conoco phillips said it was un-american to challenge the subsidies. how do you respond to that? >> number one i hope could not ko phillips will apologize to suggest that simply asking them to be part of meeting the nations deficit challenge, as were asking middle class, working families, families on medi...

Minutes ago we agree on the shape of the problem. the size of the problem. we are going to have to work through finding those things we can agree on and then there will be some issues that we have to agree to disagree on and it will take some time to resolve. i think the president made clear that he does not find an approach that would change medicare, as he said, end it as we know it, an acceptable way to deal with the deficit challenge. the republicans dont consider taxes on the wealthy to be ...

Medicaid and things you can do on tax increases, but i think is going to be an entry level commitment for a lot of people which was the concern about the rolling size in government and debt and deficit. can he be credible? >> this is the challenge. the elites want to hear a deficit challenge. they are not wrong, we need to reduce the deficit and middle class americans want to hear about jobs and they are not wrong either. >> creating them which takes stimulus. >> he believes you have to do more ...

The elites want to hear a deficit challenge. they are not wrong, we need to reduce the deficit and middle class americans want to hear about jobs and they are not wrong either. >> creating them which takes stimulus. >> he believes you have to do more to create those jobs, and those are two ice floes moving in absolutely different directions and hes having to straddle them. if anybody can do it, its barack obama. >> lets talk about it -- lets talk about it after tuesday and see how he does. paul ...

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