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It. they paid taxes, and they actually earned it for their time of need, for social security and medicare. and i was blasted by those who said earned it, well, im concerned because they did earn it. they worked and they deserved it. and now with this pending crisis, we know that as sequester comes and there are across-the-board cuts, and there is an attitude of looking for any dollar they can find, there is rumor that what the republicans are looking for is not to address solvency for social sec...

It was total shock. i couldnt believe the vice president was saying this, and doing work with the cia on iraq wmd, through all the briefs i heard at langley, i never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program. and thats when i began to believe theyre getting serious about this. they want to go into iraq. >> joining me now, rachel maddow, narrater of the documentary "hubris: selling the iraq war," which premiers monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on this network. and david corn...

Night, worried about the consequences, the collateral damage that would result from charging a bank with criminal fraud. so, you know, if there is -- if we need an admission that these banks are too big to fail and too big to jail, that was it. >> what impact in dollars could actual regulation have on the banks? i mean, theyre going to make a profit. they have always made a profit. but this is the greedy fast lane. what impact could it have? >> the important issue, ed, we have artificially depre...

Of the gdp. this year its%. next year its going to be 5%. we cut it in half, the fastest reduction in deficits since world war ii, and frankly, its too fast. we should not be doing any cut at this point because cuts will cost us jobs. and the real problem we is a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis. >> one word from all of you. do you think she could walk us back into a recession if this were to happen? >> without a doubt. >> no question. >> house speaker boehner does not sound like he is willing ...

It. and now with this pending crisis, we know that as sequester comes and there are across-the-board cuts, and there is an attitude of looking for any dollar they can find, there is rumor that what the republicans are looking for is not to address solvency for social security, but really to end it as we know it, to cut medicare and to cut made mediterranean cade. so i see it, ed, as a very serious proposition and the letter we sent to the president was to hold the ground on anything that would j...

Thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. meteors crashing into earth. congress goes on vacation again? and elizabeth warren is the new sheriff in town. all that and rachel maddow joins us tonight. buckle up. this is "the ed show." lets get to work. just like the meteor slamming into russia, elizabeth warren is already banging heads in the senate. >> the question i really want to ask is about h...

Very well compensated perches in our media political culture. so this stuff cant happen -- or let me put it another way, ed. its much more difficult to pull off a hoax like this if you have skeptical or just good reporters out there putting this stuff to hard questions. >> all right. >> and that didnt happen at the time. that made it a lot easier for dick cheney and george w. bush to make the statements like we just heard dick cheney say that had nothing to do with the truth. >> all right. rache...

Asteroid came out of the daytime sky. so its against a bright sky lit by the sun. so that makes it very, very difficult to see. and also, the small size, that didnt help us either. >> hakeem, what are the chances of us seeing something like that, i mean in a lifetime? how rare is this? >> its really small. if this were to happen in the daytime in the bright daylight in an over the ocean, which is most of the earth, no one would see it, of course, right? so a lot of the earth is uninhabited. so t...

0 asteroid came out of the daytime sky. so its against a bright sky lit by the sun. so that makes it very, very difficult to see. and also, the small size, that didnt help us either. >> hakeem, what are the chances of us seeing something like that, i mean in a lifetime? how rare is this? >> its really small. if this were to happen in the daytime in the bright daylight in an over the ocean, which is most of the earth, no one would see it, of course, right? so a lot of the earth is uninhabited. so...

0 matter who the republicans pick. but in part because of that, what has become the headline in this race so far is not necessarily the polling on the people, but the polling that is being done on this race on the issues. look at this. in massachusetts, look at this. theyre polling on the favorability of who the guys are that are running, right? theyre polling on the place holder guy who is holding the seat. theyre polling interestingly still on scott brown, who decided not to brown. theyre poll...