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You know, it makes no sense for us to provide -- i dont need it. and then to cut teachers from our public schools or to cut our aid to education or student loans and make them more expensive for our young people. i have had opportunities. i want to now give something back and i think a lot of successful people out there want to give something back. so well cut programs that dont work and well keep eliminating waste that doesnt make, that doesnt improve prospects for the middle class and im not g...

So its a good time to focus back on the supreme court. >> goodç point. mostly 9-0. >> most of the time, yes. >> jonathan, whats your must read? >> its this fortune piece on "fast and furious." a long 8,000, 9,000 word piece that will change everything you think you know about "fast and furious." and explain why the politicians are blowing a lot of smoke on this and how the hands of the agents down there were basically tied in terms of interrupting these gun purchases because gun control oppone...

>> all these things, these are the conversations we will have. thats not where they want the conversation to be. pick someone more bland. >> they are going to pick -- do they have to pick a protestant? im serious. portman is and thune is. thune is the dark horse. he is ivevangelical and comes fm the tradition. hes disciplined guy who doesnt make mistakes. i just -- begin to think does he want to play defense on the bush administration? does he want a guy like portman omb director, trade da-- spe...

A private college for the first two years shell be taking basic classes. nothing that applies to her major and shell have to take out loans to cover what we cant pay. should she go to a less expensive college to get those courses out of the way and then transfer? >> thank you, lisa, for bothering to parent your 18-year-old. this is a brilliant mom. shes speaking into this girls life and going this doesnt make economic sense. you cannot afford to drive a new mercedes. youre getting a 1994 dodge n...

Convinced themselves in the gingrich camp that president obama is a much worse than average sort of presidential candidate and contender, that he was sort of brought up to the office in a form of affirmative action, and it is the opposite. obama is a much better campaigner than most politicians. thats how he became the first african-american president, which whatever you think of the man himself is no mean feat. he tends to favor i am the only serious adult in the room stance for governing, does...

Half, their office budgets are cut in half and their time in washington is cut in half. martha: no doubt that got some applause in the room. congressional approval numbers are not in great shape. is he going to get anywhere with that? >> no hes not. first of all he -- first of all he ought to read the constitution, the president doesnt make or break what the congress does. richard nixon, a lot of presidents would have done it a long time ago. to a certain extent, its an applause line but it dimi...

Consumers getting a break at the register, the report on the consumer price index is down a bit, paying less for gas, cars and computers last month, the first major drop weve seen in prices since june. that is good news. facebook is saying it is working on a spam problem, trying to eliminate most of the pornographic and violent images posted on that website. well see how that works out for them. police in nebraska looking into who may have stolen a $15,000 comic book. wow! the owner of the r...

Members are beyond expecting a candidate to sort of dutifully check every box. any serious person mitt romney would govern in a more conservative way than chris christie? i doubt that. >> i got a chance to talk to people sort of at the republican edge of politics and they like herman cape. we dont understand how is herman cain up in the ranks of these people, it just doesnt make since but they like him and think that the 999 plan is coherent they underand it it. a warm personality. they like his...

>> one quote that leaps off the page is an administration official who says that the presidents philosophy is to lead from behind, which doesnt make for a great campaign sticker. but what is meant by that? >> i think you saw it in libya. the con vepgsal wisdom of what happened is the french and a series of advisers dragged barack obama into this intervention. if you look closely, what happened is in a very sort of unpronounced way, obama went to the u.n. and told the french and british the revol...

Off in japan, as were seeing by the devastating video, by the time it hit california it was three to four feet. over the thousands of miles it did diminish that much? >> yes, but if there would be one canal going from japan to california, it would be almost as high in california. its the spreading out over the entire shorelines of the entire pacific. >> okay. now, predictability, this is what i think terrifies people. now theyve seen this footage, they have -- weve lived through this, we hope fo...