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Void? who benefits most from your staying out of the race? >> i think there are a number of people who probably maybe jumped for joy last night, i dont know. but, i think there are a number of people who are similar to me in terms of a opponent of view, rick santorum, for example, a strong social conservative but it is also a strong fiscal and i think defense conservative, and foreign policy conservative as well and tim pawlenty, another person, newt gingrich, and, michelle bachmann, and i think...

Health. everything has been resolved, everything. to think the country is going to shut down. every newspaper in the country, even the wall street journal says, what are they thinking? what is their end game? i dont know. it is an idealogical battle, nothing to do with the fiscal. >> of course, harry reid is talking about defunding planned parenthood and the abortion issue that surrounds that. brianne brianna keilar, you caught up with harry reid. it all boils down to defunding planned parenthoo...

Protesters storm the capitol accusing republicans of using dirty tricks to pass the bill. 46 left the state to block the vote. needed one democrat to come back to have the necessary three quarters quorum for any bill that includes spending. they took the spending measures out of the bill. passed just the part limiting union rights. they can do that with a 50-plus one. democrats claim this proves their point that the budget repair bill as they called it was about union busting, not the budget. >>...

Friday. somehow, its been extended to tuesday. so i want to know how real is this tuesday deadline? thats the first thing. the second thing is you said about the costs. according to the union representatives, they have ponied up the health care costs and ponied up the pension and the real question is the collective bargaining rights and the governor said he will add collective bargain about the salaries. so wheres the fight? what do they want? and what wont the governor give up? >> well, to the ...

To collective bargaining. thats policy. nothing do with the fiscal. >> greta: the republicans won the election. the democrats didnt for better or worse. youre stuck with that until next election cycle. i dont know how you duck that one. >> the problem is this, truth has become collateral damage. yes scott walker ran on the fact that he would negotiate real tough with the unions. he never said that he was going to destroy unions. he never said that he was going to get rid of workers rights. if he...

This battle is really about? >> great question. i think this is about an ideological stand taken by new breed of gop governors that is not looking at the facts. a lot of people are talking about the unions but were not talking about the fiscal, when you dont have jobs and -- they dont have the demand. so to further cut from people that cant afford stuff is bad business. but something worse, in fiscal terms is going michigan we have a new republican governor rick snyder that announced his bucket....

>>reporter: robert gibbs said it was not a negotiating session, there is a long discussion ahead, and obviously ahead of the budget release next monday there is a lot to be fighting over in terms of spending priorities but here is what gibb was willing to say. >> they agreed on cutting spending and reducing our deficit; that we should have a broad discussion about it with the american people the size and scope of the problem we face. and giving our fiscal, getting our fiscal house in order. >> w...

Think the world would be a different place if two people had sex and they didnt know she was going to get pregnant. we have a senate dominated by men. that is exactly right. >> bill: so the proposed cuts. so you buy into this is a possible, this is an all-out assault on womens health. >> i think its a big problem for. >> bill: so for you the countrys fiscal, it would be bad men in the house on women? >> women are really the backbone of the american family association i think anything we can do t...

Systems and lets give them the ability to do that. cut the strings and give them the money so they can reform this. its a new day. >> its not the 1990 a he is and fiscal-- let the governments experiment. >> paul: well have more of my conversation with congressman paul ryan when we come back and also ahead the dorothy rab rabonwits and mary debate you wont want to miss. [ male announcer ] opportunity is a powerful force. set it in motion... and it goes out into the world like fuel for the economy...

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