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Crime is over. >> bob: the rapes went up in the city and if you took the police force out, do you think it would go down? >> eric: so when biden is trying to push a jobs bill, he should say things like if you dont pass the jobs bill, rapes will go up? >> bob: absolutely. because what you are doing is keeping police and firemen -- [ overtalk ] >> bob: if you want to be around and associated with a party that keeps teach them -- go ahead. shove it down your throat. >> eric: you are the first democ...

So $478 billion is broken up to a bunch of bills. are any of them worthwhile? >> andrea: some are. the trade deals they did were worthwhile. things that obama had on his desk for a long time. he came out and announced the jobs bill and put in provisions that republicans could get behind, jobs for veterans, trade deals and as bob said, the payroll cut. this is something i think he will get republican support. tough to vote against it. but how does obama turn this in to a win >> eric: >> bob: he w...

Hatched. its been put out there to pick fights with so, you know, chris can do his duty as a good democrat and attack the republicans and blame them. the bipartisan side was the republican side. the republicans with democrats. the purely partisan side in both votes has been the democrats sticking to -- martha: well, it does make it kind of difficult to say that republicans and democrats respect willing to get together because -- werent willing to get together because the closest they got was the...

>> bob: the rapes went up in the city and if you took the police force out, do you think it would go down? >> eric: so when biden is trying to push a jobs bill, he should say things like if you dont pass the jobs bill, rapes will go up? >> bob: absolutely. because what you are doing is keeping police and firemen -- [ overtalk ] >> bob: if you want to be around and associated with a party that keeps teach them -- go ahead. shove it down your throat. >> eric: you are the first democrat to defend h...

>> and if the republicans dont pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise? >> murder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise. all crimes will continue to rise. >> do you think its appropriate for the vice president to use language in such a way? >> we have got to go. im sorry. >> mr. vice president? >> sean: dont screw around with me on this. rape and murder is going to go up unless you pass the presidents bill. your reaction? >> im god so glad you played that for me. i had heard ...

Inflammatory, its demagoguic. and it shuts down conversation and just angers people because its toward a political aim which is parts jobs bill, giver was we want, giver the president and the democrats what they want. the larger point about the statistics, its not a slam dunk. if you look over the last two years even as budgets have been cut, the murder rates, the rates of robberies down 10%. there may be a tipping point at which you say we cant have further cuts in terms of police, fire and the...

Good. >> dana: the other thing that is strange is crime has gone down on their watch. the recession has gotten worse but crime has gone down. socialists and criminalnologists dont know why that could be. it doesnt even make sense what he is talking about. >> eric: scare tactics. remember the ad pushing the old people over the cliff? this is another form of that. worried that someone is going to fire cops and firemen? >> bob: sure. let me say this. unequivocally, without question, i agree with ev...

Up/down issue. this is a fairness issue. this is a criminal issue, this is not a political issue. i want to read an excerpt, though, from matt. he wrote, "what nobody is comfortable with is a movement in which virtually the entire spectrum of the middle class and poor americans is on the same page, railing against the incestuous political and financial corruption on wall street and in washington." that really sums it up. >> well, right. i mean, look, the left and the right have different ideas a...

Good. >> dana: the other thing that is strange is crime has gone down on their watch. the recession has gotten worse but crime has gone down. socialists and criminalnologists dont know why that could be. it doesnt even make sense what he is talking about. >> eric: scare tactics. remember the ad pushing the old people over the cliff? this is another form of that. worried that someone is going to fire cops and firemen? >> bob: sure. let me say this. unequivocally, without question, i agree with ev...

animals set loose in ohio lead tog a night of terror that ended with many of them shot. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com its a whole different contest than it was only 24 hours ago and now, the fight for the republican presidential nomination includes a brutal, nasty battle between mitt romney and rick perry. the shift happened last night on television at the cnn western republican debate in las vegas and it did get seriously ugly....