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Re-election, but also as a memberof congress? to try to fd common ground and compromise? >> of course background to find compromise. thats what you have to do in order to get this done. but you dont cmpmise on your principles. i uslfare reform as an example. i -- i went out and helped author the welfare reform bill that became the contract with america bill, a then when i was in the united states senate, i managed that bl as a first-term, firsyear member of the united states senate. i went up ag...

>> yeah. >> thank you, paul. >> thank you. >> well have your next political update in one hour and a reminder for all the latest political news go to our website, cnnpolitics.com. when it comes to government shutdowns, weve seen this movie before. remember 1995, house speaker newt gingrich and president bill clinton faced off and the government shut down. karen chetry takes a look at whether anything has changed. >> we wanted to sort of take a look back at what happened in 1995. that was then, a...

>> shepard: president obama now says the united states will start holding military trials at guantanamo bay again after a two-year ban. no word yet on which cases might go to trial. the feds still debating whether to prosecute the 9/11 suspects at gitmo or in federal court here in the united states just days after took office the president signed executive order to close gitmo within a year. two years later congress has blocked funding for transfer to detainees to the united states. eric holder ...

Committee first. thats why you see senator kerry there. after she speaks on the hill secretary clinton will meet with president obama and vice president biden in the oval office later this afternoon. bill: a lot to watch. thank you, molly henneberg, from our capitol. arthel: bill, we are already more than a year past president obamas deadline for closing the detention facility at guantanamo bay. but now attorney general eric holder saying the prison may not close any time soon. here is what hold...

Until you graduate. but now you have to pay or it accumulates. you have to pay interest beginning day one of grad school and that makes it so you cant go to grad school. >> lets just be clear. interest will build up. students wont have to pay until they graduate. so it will increase the burden for paying back the loans but lit not reduce access to education. thats, i think, part of you can responsibly have a plan that deals with the challenge of solving our fiscal crisis, getting out of the situ...

Deficit by the end of the presidents first term. it deals with all parts of the budget and its a plan which we look forward to presenting it to the congress and getting a bipartisan discussion going on how to achieve it. >> the president had a debt commission and put out a big long report on how to get out of the debt but not the yearly deficit but the accumulative, and yet very little is reflected in this budget. why was there a debt commission to begin with since everybody seems determined to ...

With careless driving. president obama delivers his his state of the union address tuesday night, but were looking at a preview in a video message to democratic supporters. the president laid out his top priority. >> so, my principal focus, my number one focus is going to be making sure that we are competitive, that we are growing and we are creating jobs not just now, but well into the future. >> lets bring in nbc news white house correspondent mike viqueira. good tuesday morning. >> good mor...

Josh? >> i think definitely. you know, we keep looking for -- everything in this presidency as opposed to looking to analogs back to bill clintons first term. i think you look back at 94 to 96, what really did happen is the economy kept picking up steam, you know, people thought things were going really well well economically by 1996 and it helped both sides. bill clinton got reelected and republicans held onto the majority. i think in that sense, you really can, you know, if you think of politi...

To this young man. k-mart is phasing out the sale of handgun ammunition. the business plan calls for this to be complete in the continental u.s. within the next 90 days. k-mart representatives met with mr. moore and students from columbine, colorado yesterday and listened to their concerns about the product carried in k-mart stores. the company committed at the end of that meeting that k-mart would have an answer for them within a weeks time. >> as you saw there in 2001 k-mart phased out selling...

Opposition to legislation important in pennsylvania and virginia and elsewhere that helps states in a tough time keep teachers, firefighters, and policemen on the job. this is the same john boehner who infamously handed out tobacco company campaign checks to republican members of congress on the floor of the house of representatives a couple years ago and plotted with the wall street lobbyists to block financial reform around the same time democratic party chairman tim kaine was blasting john bo...