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Shrink. their economies are going down. theyre in double-dip recessions. and thats the kind of medicine they want to prescribe here at home now. it wont work. it will hurt the economy. >> all right. congressman chris van hollen, good to have you with us tonight. thanks. >> likewise, thanks, ed. lets bring in pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post" eugene robinson. eugene, does the hatred for president obama run so deep in the republican party that there is no deal that theyl...

Gary glen ross. everybody start to unload. use the sales force. use the dealer desk. get on your game. >> jpmorgan deny nice wrongdoing and is contesting the allegations in court. joining me tonight, former new york governor and former attorney general of new york, eliot spitzer. mr. spitzer, good to have you with us. >> ed, thank you for inviting me. >> this has got to be a clear indication of fraud as i see it. these are damaging e-mails. >> absolutely. remember, the defense of the banks has t...

Vigilante behavior. as the stand-your-ground law stands now, it acts as a sword and a shield. it acts as a sword because it allows somebody to be an initial aggressor, and it acts as a shield because it allows them to claim themselves under the cloak of victimhood after they begin a confrontation. >> so should george zimmerman be protected by the stand-your-ground law in this case? >> absolutely not. george zimmerman was the initial aggressor. he found trayvon martin. he pursued him. trayvon mar...

Maryland. he is a ranking member on the house budget committee. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. >> you too, ed. >> i just want to cut to the chase on what boehner is telling the american people. he says that they have passed two bills. that was in the 112th. legally, they dont apply right now. is that correct? >> thats exactly right, ed. it is totally false. the republicans have done absolutely nothing to replace or avoid the sequester in this new congress, nothing since january 1...

Right outside. its now to me there is certainly two parties here. theyre just by banner under one umbrella. lets go to sequestration. joan walsh, the president making a heck of a pitch. and of course youve got john boehner telling the senate to go back to work, and he is relying on the two bills they passed in the last session of congress. where are we? who wins? who loses? >> were in big trouble. you know, i feel like watching hurricane sandy approach last year, ed, and i could tell my daughter...

By the banks to go in and say are these mortgages good? and as you said in the top of the segment, they found out the mortgages were bad. so what did the banks do with that information? suppressed it. anybody who had done a good investigation would have seen this, charged the banks, charged individuals, and said lets finally unravel this daisy chain that is killing our economy. >> this is the dot that needs to be connected for the american people. this drove us right damn near off the cliff. and...

0 republicans trying to move ahead with the scheme to rig that states electoral votes. other states flirted with this and gave up in the face of broad criticism after the election, but pennsylvania republicans are pressing ahead. and in conceivably related news, pennsylvanias deeply unpopular governor tom corbett apparently just got a new democratic challenger in the form of congresswoman allyson schwartz. and the united states supreme court is hearing a challenge to the voting rights act tomorr...

0 the show this hour. and as that illinois congressional election becomes sort of a test case for the democratic partys newfound muscularity and confidence on the issue of gun policy, well, today in washington, vice president biden kept up his very high profile schedule on this issue. the vice president taking this meeting today with a group of really not the usual suspects on the gun issue. and also today, one key legislator announced a really important decision about what is going to happen no...

0 vigilante behavior. as the stand-your-ground law stands now, it acts as a sword and a shield. it acts as a sword because it allows somebody to be an initial aggressor, and it acts as a shield because it allows them to claim themselves under the cloak of victimhood after they begin a confrontation. >> so should george zimmerman be protected by the stand-your-ground law in this case? >> absolutely not. george zimmerman was the initial aggressor. he found trayvon martin. he pursued him. trayvon m...

0 summer right in the heat of the campaign, an article that acknowledged what everybody else in the media already knew was true, but had not admitted outloud, the website buzz of feed finally put a headline on it and put it up in black and white. mitt romney is terrible for traffic. they mean web traffic. they did what essentially amounted to a control experiment in terms of peoples interest online in the two candidates. look. 29 photos of baby barack obama versus 30 photos of mitt romney as a c...