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U.s. congressman paul ryan saidç his budget was encourage by his catholic faith. he was met with protestors and a letter from nearly 100 professors and staffers disagree with his philosophy and his budgets at georgetown university. the letter says in part, we would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continued s misuse of catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protection for the el...

Protest and 90 georgetown faculty, including a dozen jesuit priests have written a letter to ryan, to "challenge your continuing misuse of catholic teaching, to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives tax breaks to the wealthiest few." catholic bishops already sent letters of protest to ryan and other house republicans. heres why. the republicans have proposed taking 280,000 children off the scho...

Helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ ed show survey tonight. i asked, would mitt romney implement scott walkers job-killing policies as president. 94% of you say yes, 4% of you say no. coming up, paul ryan is getting heat for his budget plan that cuts billions from food programs. jonathan alter weighs in on that next. ♪ dave, ive downloaded a virus.

Cash assistance and that causes an increase in child hunger. so what it shows you is its complete completely diametrically opposed to whats supposed to be happening. >> the critique of the old system of course, was that it disincentivized work. if you -- and weve come up with a whole bunch of programs with the idea being that there is no cliff at which if you get a job or get an increase in income, your actual net gains go down, right? you do not want to create a system in which a job or a raise...

now, it began just before dawn. heres the terrifying sound that awakened one family in frankfort, kentucky. [ sirens ] frankfort was spared thankfully but so many other places were not. people lost their lives in tennessee, missouri, and harrisburg with the biggest lost. survivors describing what they saw and felt. >> its very devastating, we are lucky compared to people out that way. very lucky. >> overwhelmed. just overwhelmed with emotions. i had no idea it was this bad. >> the ligh...

Have failed the poor. >> liberal institutions have failed the poor. tell that to the 40 million poor people who are able to put meals on the dinner table thanks to food staumps, or 9 million people served by women, infant and children food programs. or the 900,000 poor kids enrolled in preexile by headstart programs. all of us want them to be able to earn a living by themselves. all of us want them to have equal opportunity. thats what we marched and fought to, but it has been policies that have...

Failed the poor. tell that to the 40 million poor people who are able to put meals on the dinner table thanks to food staumps, or 9 million people served by women, infant and children food programs. or the 900,000 poor kids enrolled in preexile by headstart programs. all of us want them to be able to earn a living by themselves. all of us want them to have equal opportunity. thats what we marched and fought to, but it has been policies that have robbed them of that and caused afternoon inequalit...

Time. when they begin to destroy a country, when they bring -- >> destroy a country? >> absolutely. >> gretchen needs to get some new material, dont you think? the "some would say" line has been a fox news staple for years. my good friend robert greenwald pointed it out in his 2004 documentary "outfoxed." >> some people say in light of whats happened with the oil for food programs -- >> some people say supported by iran. >> some say? ive heard a couple people say -- >> some say its a sour grapes...

Pentagon and federal domestic spending. they must approve their own budgets by this coming spring and no state budgets will reflect diminished federal aid well before 2013. in virginia defense contractors are already anticipating cuts in pentagon spending of roughly 600 billion. they are expected to trim their own corporate payrolls and purchases accordingly that will likely translate into accelerated layoffs and budget strains in the states that president obama carried easily in 2008. even in t...

Obama carried easily in 2008. this is money that often goes to states in the form block grants and other aid. >> those are the kind of funds that go into education program. food programs. the state level assistance to the unemployed and those needing training. these are big dollars. we are talking about $50 billion in defense cuts. $35 billion in non-defense cuts and they will have a substantial impact immediately on the states. >> reporter: 30% of the state of marylands budget is dough pendant ...