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Of our country and our economy. >> joining me now, the senior senator from new york, senator chuck schumer. thanks for joining me tonight, senator. >> nice to be with you. >> senator, any progress today in the negotiations on possible budget compromise? >> no, i dont think there was too much progress. the bottom line is the tea party continues to pull at speaker boehner, say dont come to any compromise. their positions continue to be extreme. and we know that hr 1 will not pass the senate and th...

Theyre saying that, because they just really dont know whats going on inside that plant. >> when we see the videotape of the helicopters doing what theyre doing, we can only think that this is a last desperate attempt to contain the situation. this cant{ be standard operating procedure. if this doesnt work -- >> well, no. >> if this doesnt work, where are we? >> well, if this doesnt work, were in big trouble. i think thats what everyone is recognizing tonight. i mean, you have to get water over ...

A safe place to be. come on home. theyre saying that, because they just really dont know whats going on inside that plant. >> when we see the videotape of the helicopters doing what theyre doing, we can only think that this is a last desperate attempt to contain the situation. this cantç be standard operatg procedure. if this doesnt work -- >> well, no. >> if this doesnt work, where are we? >> well, if this doesnt work, were in big trouble. i think thats what everyone is recognizing tonight. i...

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Its that. well focus on that. which are you? you have choices in life. thats what life is. my father used to say to me glenn, life is a series of choices. but once you make the choice, you have to be prepared to live with the consequences and the ramifications of that choice. right now, were given bogus choices and were told what we cannot do, but we are not giving the other side of it. for example, we were told this or what? we know we dont want this. so its that. but then were not defining tha...

In congress now, which is refreshing, we are debating how much to cut spending, not how much to increase spending. early press reports are he showing us that he wants paltry savings on the one hand and a lot of new saving on the other hand. borrowing and spend something not the way to prosperity. todays deficits means tomorrows tax increases and that costs jobs. so all this borrowing and spending doesnt work, didnt work with the stimulus. and it will cost us jobs. we need to cut spending so we c...

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Maybe we ought to quit. but im afraid they will only quit when we go totally bankrupt and our monetary system doesnt work. >>neil: sadly, congressman, you were way ahead of this and i started crunching the numbers with our staff and it is staggering our foreign assistance bill alone is about $32.8 billion mostly going to egypt and other the years we have forgiven countries debt, 20 some odd years ago we forgive $21 billion to $8 billion in loans to egypt so that is piled on to money we have give...

Yesterday walker lashed out at a group of democrats in the state senate who now call themselves the wisconsin 14. >> but wait. theyre in illinois. >> they left. >> shouldnt they be the illinois 14? >> yes, they should. >> if we want to be accurate about this. >> that is the one part that -- >> lets break it down really quickly here. okay? >> yeah. >> mike barnicle, mika and i get some of the nastiest, ugliest e-mails. >> me, too. >> by the way, for you people out there that support unions that t...

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