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Coming out today showing him way ahead. hes really a phenomenon and i think this -- i agree with you that its absolutely brilliant for him to have taken us back to 9/11 and to not just because hes getting under jeb bushs skin because he frankly raises important questions as mika said. what about the stuff george w. bush did. for republicans it brings back the whole list of reasons why a lot of conservatives didnt like george w. bush that much because guess what? those wars cost a trillion dollar...

Rate in your state. talk about the road problem, the deficit problem. hes got it all ready to spit out. there is no trump to attack. what are you going to go after him for? >> i think what really gets traction probably in the debate are liberal positions. >> thats right. like youre really -- >> thats how they got rubio -- whats his name, got rudy giuliani. got gay roommates? what they got on him? >> hillary clinton was at his wedding. you can go issue by issue. theres a pretty fat dossier of thi...

He will tackle the third rail of american politics. he will talk about entitlement reform. specifically he will suggest that social security and medicare should be means tested, and that the eligibility ages for both should be raised. tough medicine, very risky in american politics. people who talk about entitlement reform dont tend to get warm receptions from awful lot of american seniors and those in need but indisputable fact both are costing the government a fortune. entitlement is a big par...

Predicted, the democratic house and senate, pushed him to raise taxes and he said no. and they pushed him to raise tax again and he said no. and they pushed him again and he said yes. >> read my lips, no new taxes. >> translation, your taxes are about to go up. >> this is nbc "nightly news" with tom brokaw, reporting tonight from new york. >> good evening. read his lips, campaign promises are made to be broken. however you want to describe it, president bush conceded that new taxes will be neces...

I guarantee after this winter if you look at the potholes that are all across big chunks of the united states that people would like to see an infrastructure built. >> from busted up roads to just going bust. the president acknowledges that we have an infrastructure problem. heres the dilemma. the highway trust fund will be dried up by august. thats just fine. let it go. explain your flip side. >> well, i think we need more private ownership of growth. we could do things a lot faster. there was ...

Match that up. >> he is talking about why goes to congress. he had a positive vision of more energy for america and tackling the deficit problem. and take her on on her character and record. she had been the chief financial officer of florida and saw the meltdown in the pension that was bigger than other states. she was the president of nations bank and got $8 million in bonuses. so he countered punches and said you cannot lecture me. take a look at your own record. it was a strong campaign. he ...

Years old. we really need to do is grow this economy. and that will create more demand for workers and that will create higher wages and better benefits and we are living through the weakest economic recovery since the great depression and we have this huge deficit problem that we justrt learned from the nonpartisan congressional budget office and its going to grow another $10 trillion the next ten years and not touching it. big things if president obama comes to the table we can work on, and i...

To find a deal and to not have the government shut down again in january. government funding was going to expire again in january. they wanted to get over that hump. on the other side, you have democrats that dont like the sequester and basically getting pummeled on the affordable care act and all the botched rollout. they want a small victory. they needed anything, and this is in their self-interests, as well because it ithacaers to that in the case of that small victory. so will it will in new...

Problem and the debt deniers are wrong, we have a huge long-term deficit problem. if you wait until 2017, it means youre going to hope nothing bad happens, no recessions. seven years of recovery, a lot of jobs created, everything built into the cbo forecast which i think is a rosy scenario. so i think were drifting into danger. and yet, unless they do something now, how can anything be done? >> how would you fix it? if theres no new revenue, how do you fix it? >> you have to have a massive demob...

Over the last, i guess, 12 minutes and everyone saying good job. also people are pointing out that he gets paid $5,021 over six days. no wonder we have a deficit problem. >> is this time for a look back at the week that was. >> lets do that right now. watch. ♪ ♪ >> its columbus day. >> happy columbus day. >> i would say nina for a thousand dollars. >> she wrecked four million tv screens and three ipads. >> youre fired! >> skhrepbt -- excellent questions. they make terrible pets. >> the singe...