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there is, its a tomorrow morning. all past episodes are available now. you can go to the qr code on your screen for a link. its a podcast about loss and grief. we have had a series of conversations with stephen colbert and others. this weeks episode -- about the sudden loss of her husband in 2012 and how she and her two young children at the time coped with the grief and still do. that is episode seven of the podcast, comes out tomorrow morning. you can find it on apple caught passed o...

More amendment votes, and we were able to participate. members of congress today, at least in the house of representative, cant even offer amendments that will be taken up. the leadership says you need to send it to the rules committee and they will vet it and have a vote on it. there are very few amendments now on the house floor and that means you dont get to differentiate -- when i first got in you might have 100 vindmans on a piece of legislation, some i think thats too much, but whats nice ...

By the time election stuff comes around for the ones who are singing, you just lost her spot, there will be other stuff on the table. youre just hoping that the same mistakes that they made with obamacare, that the republicans are going to do the exact same thing. but they didnt lose their seats because of that, they lost their seats because they shelved something down, they just wanted to get something passed. they didnt bother to think by the repercussions. an earmark here. you take this giant...

Stating. first, under this president they made cut of $87 billion in ten years. this would be another one. if they dont adopt what were talking about. another half trillion dollars. half trillion dollars would come out. coming out of the places where we can look at it from a military perspective and not just straight across the board. >> bret: its how the sequester is implemented. not the number. >> right. thats right. >> roughly 2.3%. out of a giant pie. >> that is authorizing 2.3%. some of it ...

Did. >> reporter: the cbo study says this income gap is partially the result of big-time sallies and bonuses rising since 1979, and taxes on the rich falling. the economic result, if you think of americas total income as one giant pie, the richest 1% have seen the size of their piece double over the last 30 years. and everyone else, have seen their piece get smaller. but the social result might be bigger. >> the first question that comes to my mind is are we all still in the same boat together? ...