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President win a state? region? and that is the question facing come knee now is this is boing to split republican party since getting tossed out of congress in 2006. the old guys versus new, young generation dealing with the deficit, reform the tax cut, attacking entitlement problem. its going to give them shine and reassure voters youve got big ideas and plans. those are guys like marco rubio or paul ryan, for instance. he needs some of that to rub off on him. >> dorjo think, paul ryan is a fav...

Establishment. which way do you think it should turn on that question? >> there is a choice is that everyone saying can the vice president win a state? region? and that is the question facing come knee now is this is boing to split republican party since getting tossed out of congress in 2006. the old guys versus new, young generation dealing with the deficit, reform the tax cut, attacking entitlement problem. its going to give them shine and reassure voters youve got big ideas and plans. those ...

Know if we vote on it now it will 2 down. go down. as we get closer to the fiscal cliff when wall of the tax cuts expire, the sequester is about to take hold, when the unemployment insurance extension ends, when the pay roll tox holiday ends, all of these things build toward the end of the year, thats going to be the opportunity i think for the grand bargain. >> well, that gives new meaning to the phrase lame duck session of congress. i think the terminology should be flipped. david corn on our ...

Food right out of the poor childrens mouth. quite frankly in michigan, that dog dont hunt. welfare should be used for the necessities of life, not for gambling and certainly not for the wealthy. >> i dont get this. excuse me for not understanding or maybe i do get it and thats why it seems so incomprehensible. she made after taxes $700,000 on this lottery check. she owns two homes. she says she has no income but she does. so what am i missing? >> well, i think the thing that was missing here is ...

Like people to look at the numbers, a flat line, 13.9% entitlements so-called or mandatory in 2011. 14.0 in, thats his proposal, in 2020. its not increasing. >> all right. steve. but the fact -- >> thats the proposal. >> the fact that entitlement spending as a share is growing, growing. >> as a share of total -- >> discretionary -- >> going down. >> the discretion is going down because the other stuff is going up and squeezing out the other kinds of spending that some of us view as very importan...

The election. >> eric: let me ask you. weigh in on this here. 15.2% is the unemployment number if you include people who took jobs just to put food on the table. not just the unemployed. >> brian: counting underemployed? >> eric: 20 million still underemployed or out of work. >> dana: i wouldnt say that the number was bad news. any increase is a good thing for americans and the country. but one of the numbers that i think is key is how many people decided to leave the workforce. discouraged work...

Mitt romney that could affect the election. >> eric: let me ask you. weigh in on this here. 15.2% is the unemployment number if you include people who took jobs just to put food on the table. not just the unemployed. >> brian: counting underemployed? >> eric: 20 million still underemployed or out of work. >> dana: i wouldnt say that the number was bad news. any increase is a good thing for americans and the country. but one of the numbers that i think is key is how many people decided to leave t...

Mitt romney that could affect the election. >> eric: let me ask you. weigh in on this here. 15.2% is the unemployment number if you include people who took jobs just to put food on the table. not just the unemployed. >> brian: counting underemployed? >> eric: 20 million still underemployed or out of work. >> dana: i wouldnt say that the number was bad news. any increase is a good thing for americans and the country. but one of the numbers that i think is key is how many people decided to leave t...

forum all week. i had a chance to sit down with the former president bill clinton for an extensive interview. part of it will air this hour. part in the next hour. i want you to stand by. only a few blocks away at the united nations, president obamas on a major diplomatic mission of his on and a number of critical issues are on the table. lets bring in jessica yellin. shes with me here at the clinton global initiative. a huge day today. maybe even a more important day for the president...

of congress packed up and went on vacation. so now 4,000 faa workers are not being paid. tens of thousands of others involved in airport construction and maintenance are also off t job. and some $25 million are being lost every day in taxes because there is no one there to collect. that is more revenue lost in one hour than you will probably pay in your lifetime because congress members cannot reach an agreement agreement. weill tear into this developing dispute in just a moment, but h...