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Said, look, in this thing is going to be a mess. we used to be for it but not so much anymore. hes gotten a lot of bad news this week. >> no, and its not unlike what happened with medicare part d with george bush. he put that in. democrats, we hammered it. there were interest groups that thought it was a sellout to the pharmaceutical companies. it was horribly unpopular, it became more and more popular. now democrats cannot, wont even touch medicare part d. so there are a lot of problems with th...

Your reports on "nightly news" and continuing. thank you for joining us today. >> me too. >> we have live pictures from a community center in decatur, georgia, to highlight his proposal to expand pre-k education to 4-year-olds. the top challenge right now facing the white house is the hagel kwimation. theyre nowak knowledging today they are losing ground on this the chuck hagel nomination to be secretary of defense. as of right now democrats cannot count on 60 votes to cut off that republican fi...

Paul ryan will -- who supports $700 billion in cuts over medicare for the next -- >> im in the running for president. >> do you? >> im not running for anything. paul ryan is running for vice president. >> you cant answer. >> im not running for president. >> the key vulnerability. democrats have cut 2k7s00 billion out of medicare which you wont or cant defend it. defend it. >> is it good or bad? >> do you support it? >> wait, why are you asking me -- >> you cant answer because youre an opinionmak...

Supposed to give us your opinion. but you will not tell us what your opinion is. >> what i want to know is the logic -- >> democrats cannot -- >> i want to know the logic -- >> defend it. >> what i want to know -- wait. hold on. >> answer me. youre not answering. >> can i say something? >> can you answer. >> can i say something? >> let her answer. >> what i want to know is the logic of attacking somebody for something that you yourself are proposing to do? paul ryan proposes keeping -- >> romney...

Is going to have to move through with the republicans that women are to be respected. that we want freedom and independence and i think thats the message. >> juan: it might be too late. jehmu is it too late? i think tammy is on to something. there is an important economic message. if the women believe that romney and the republics want to push him back in the dark ages, who is going to listen to the economic message? >> well, you cannot say that its democrats who have been using reproductive mes...

Not do something systematic not just august 2nd or august 9th if we did not change the way washington spends we will have this information for congresses to come, and is what we are called reactionaries and we are call a whole host of negative and some accurate things and i think what we really are interested in is having transformative generation am systematic change in the way washington does business. >>neil: congressman, what do you say to those who argue now is not the time to do that? now ...

If you do, either spending contributes to it or it doesnt. republicans rationally believe yes, spending is contributing to the debt problem. we only had as a country three of these pressure points you talked about, rowland, the 2011 budget, the debt ceiling and now the 2012 budget. i suggest we not hold it hostage, and i dont think they will, well be left with only one negotiating point left, the 2012 budget and not another thing left to show for it. >> youre right on one point, and that is you ...

Allow democrats to compete in elections, particularly against corporate money. whether or not union contracts have any effect on state budgets or not, if you get rid of unions, if you make unions disappear, particularly if you make public sector unions disappear, then the corporate interests that give big money to republicans in elections, they have no competition. so democrats cant ever win. last year out of the top ten outside spending groups in that election, weve seen this before, right? 7 o...

Make public sector unions disappear, then the corporate interests that give big money to republicans in elections, they have no competition. so democrats cant ever win. last year out of the top ten outside spending groups in that election, weve seen this before, right? 7 of those groups made their donations to the right. only 3 of the 10 made their donations to the left. and all three donating to the left were unions. if the unions are gone, republicans run the table. democrats cannot compete wh...

Midterm elections. democrats dont want to be caught off guard. >> why cant they do what these other independent expenditure groups do? >> they are. and they are starting and very concerned that they are a little late. republicans got a jump-start and they wont be able to raises much money. >> because the last time, $745 million they raised but all of those caucuses and primaries and democrats we were fighting the president now he is running unopposed and the incumbent, i tweeted this earlier, tr...