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Country. its a great country and you know what? we need to lead again. its not too late. can do it because weve done it before. reminds me what makes america great, what makes us exceptional, what makes us the greatest country in all of the world is all throughout our history in times of crisis, be it economic or fiscal, be it military or spiritual, there have been men and women of courage who have been willing to stand up and think more about future generations than they thought about their own...

Security and terrorism is tied with health care as a top priority. >> have the numbers shifted or changed in the last few years? or has it been consistently like this? >> basically for the last decade or so its been a mantra from the 92 campaign, its the economy, stupid. its fiscal for president. whats prominent is national security and terrorism on the issue agenda. more for republicans obviously, but also for democrats. and that will mean a slightly different debate in 2016 than weve been use...

Call or fiscal, men and women have stood up to make decisions about their children and grandchildren more so than they did about their own political futures. ladies and gentlemen, this tonight is one of those moments in american history. >> a new poll from quinnipiac shows walker up by a wide margin in iowa getting almost double the support of his closest competitor rand paul. in texas, walker has surged to second just one percent behind texas senator ted cruz and also one ahead of rick perry. c...

Realistic to assume they can cobble their differences and iron out a plan to get on the presidents desk before they go for august recess? >> tha the next target date. the senate bill passed 93-3. that is a significant vote. people said, what about the costs there? and i had one republican senior leadership aide say to me, they said, well, senator ted cruz voted for this so he must thing this is good fiscal, sound policy for america. so theres a goal to get this done. the other thing well -- robe...

Washington. the difference here is the way that he is doing it and the fact that he is being selected. and no one, not even the president of the united states is above the law. were a nation of laws and when you start to bypass it, its troubling. >> what are you going to do? i know that you are all upset. but are you going to do anything? >> its time where we have got to get beyond talk. obviously there has been a number of things that we have looked at resolutions, looking to the judiciary for ...

Up against the republican record on the economy any day of the week. when weve had 46 straight months of job growth, private sector job growth, when we have actually helped turn around a fiscal -- near fiscal collapse, i will put that record up against you any day of the week. when you are not you are hurtin economy. thats money pumped back into the economy. >> the nature of the problem is different than weve seen it. the rate of the long-term unemployed is higher since world war ii and both par...

Medicaid expansion, what you are doing is fundamentally not only hurting the people that need the most help as we get back on our feet but youre actually undermining the economy in general. i will put the democratic record up against the republican record on the economy any day of the week. when weve had 46 straight months of job growth, private sector job growth, when we have actually helped turn around a fiscal -- near fiscal collapse, i will put that record up against you any day of the week....

>> no. >> only deals with the whole budget. one of the things the democrats wanted was extend unemployment benefits. >> we didnt do that. >> did you ask for anything they didnt want to do? >> i wanted to have higher income seniors pay more premiums for medicare. they didnt. >> have you spoken to speaker boehner? >> yes, hes been part of this. ive spoken to dozens of my colleagues in the house, talking to them, getting input, speaking with a lot of members of the senate, trying to get input from ...

If youre talking about somebody who has no insurance at all, then theres, then there is, just, it would seem the self-serving incentive to, to insure your economic and fiscal, your fiscal future and your health future. so that is kind of a different category. and i think a lot of stories happening out there about the campaigns to get used to sign up. here is what you should be looking forward to though. i think the federal government and the state governments are holding back on the massive mark...

For them. >> purely about midterm politics. how do you deal with something thats really tangible, the fiscal -- the votes to cut food stamps. how do we in the middle of an economy where the working poor are relying on food stamps as well as those who dont have jobs and middle class incomes are down, how do you take food off the table with people? >> it is unfathomable that yesterday the same republicans in the house voted to cut food stamps by $40 billion. these are obviously not people who have...