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Charged with making those rules are so dependant on the money to the point that senator dodd, who is the chairman of the committee, is raising money on wall street on monday, on park avenue, next week. >> no question, theres toomp, too much money in this political system. theres too much, too many campaign contributions goings all over the place on wall street. >> thats not my question. >> but look at what some people are doing. what chris dodd has done with the bill, is not what wall street wan...

American -- >> i have to give you credit, wendell, for getting a lots of crazy people in one question. >> were supposed to believe fox news all of a sudden is so concerned about muslim-americans? >> im still trying too figure out what exactly that question was about. that was so -- i was there, a couple rows back. that was so out of left field, i was be muds by it. i had no idea there was a problem with american muslims because of barack obamas alleged foreign -- it doesnt make sense. it clearly...

But what youve seen in president obama is he tried to tie together three different elements. this new nuclear strategy that came out last week, an arms control deal with the russians that i think you and i agree doesnt move the ball very much, but at least continues a slow move downward, and then the nuclear security side of this. hes got two other big elements. stopping countries like iran and north korea, and the second one is reforming the nuclear nonproliferation treaty so that countries can...

Characterization, wolf. in fact, prime minister netanyahu spent 90 minutes with president obama, which i was told at the security council today was actually the longest meeting that any foreign -- any head of state or prime minister has had with the president. prime minister netanyahu was treated with great respect. most importantly, prime minister netanyahu understands that the security of the state of israel is paramount to this president. >> what do you think, mary? >> i think congressman wex...

Eliminate their demands for change. it might take a while to get to that point, but this is something the countrys moving forward. >> if they move ahead, will that backfire on u.s. and the west in terms of building support for the ahminedjad -- will they have more support because of the normal, nationalistic impulse to want to rally around the regime against foreign -- would be perceived as foreign intrusion? >> its very difficult to predict. normally, iran is a country thats very hard to predic...

We have an abundance supply of and we could transition all of our fuel onto natural gas and actually reduce our dependents on foreign oil, and yet the president is not doing that. let me finish. instead hes coming up with a fraudulent solution in which he caters to a political slogan effectively that doesnt actually reduce our dependents on foreign oil while not addressing the opportunity that exists to utilize natural gas to actually get us off of foreign oil. so dont get me wrong. im not again...

Whatever you take to the movie theater. this will be good old fashioned political drama in washington. martha: truth is better than fiction. bill: well be starting our coverage right now. >> im bret baier in washington, the meeting place will be the blair house, you see on the corner of the screen, the presidents guest house, after spending most of the year tighting tooth -- fighting tooth and nail over the specifics of health care reform legislation, today congressional republicans and democrat...

The government has reduced spending on foreign aid this year from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%, due, it says, to the seismic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy. its a cut of almost £4 billion. in response, a group of 28 rebel conservative mps and two former prime ministers, theresa may and sirjohn major, have promised to back an amendment to a bill being voted on in the commons today. this would reverse the foreign aid cut next year. the amount of money were talking about here...

Has only, in his words, exacerbated the problem. senior officials tell me at some point today the administration will be announcing what they describe as temporary relief. they say its not aid, they say its temporary relief for some of these farmers who have been hard hit by trade retaliation. so what exactly that temporary relief looks like, whether its a loan, which many farmers with whom ive spoken have told me is not what they need. this community is facing a significant issue, a lot of thos...

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