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Choice is cains or peace, you can choose austerity, an austerity that actually cuts the pentagon budget which has been very difficult to do or get out of the austerity bind and deal with the pentagon later, what do you want? >> so shockingly its a false choice, okay. shockingly youre binary between two extremes is a false choice. we should cut the pentagon budget, right? we at the center for american progress would cut the pentagon budget dramatically, not as much as sequestration because we do ...

Mainly that iran gets nuclear weapons. >> you predict iran could get nuclear weapons? whats your predixon what the end game is and how this will turn out? >> i think if they went into a rush, they could get nuclear weapons in a matter of months. whats interesting is theyre not in a rush. theyre building a very deep, extensive nuclear weapons programs, different weighs to get them -- ways to get them, processeprocessed plutonium. they dont feel threatened. if they can buy space economically, buy ...

>> i didnt know this was going to be this long. >> thats new jersey governor chris christie having some fun at his own expense last night braving the couch of late night nemesis david letterman. good stuff. good morning. this is "way too early," the show that will bite your donut if you give us the tiniest opening. we have a lot to cover this morning including new signs of the efforts to stop chuck hague frl becoming secretary of defense are losing steam. comments by john mccain suggest hes on a...

Lighter at the senate foreign relations committee today as the committees outgoing chairman enjoyed support, just about from everybody, and from hillary clinton and john mccain as well on his glide path towards confirmation to be secretary of state. thats the easy part. the hard part is what comes next. joining me now for our daily fix is chris caliz sxwl a and post politics.com nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly oh donnell and usa todays washington bureau chief, susan page. thanks very much. ...

Many of his rank and file thought were lacking in this bill. obviously, they will still look for that. it didnt come easy we had a lot of drama over the course of the day. look at the vote spread now, 104 to 56 69 to five look at the democrats lining up in the leadership. that is fairly extraordinary. im looking down at the monitor here. things appear to be on a glide path here for passage of this bill, making its way to the presidents desk. >> ten more votes, i think, vic as we watch it go down...

>> a lot of people have been selling stocks ahead of the fiscal cliff that presumably will include a rise in the rate on capital gains and how dividends had the income that a stock may pay will be taxed in 2013. some of them are selling today when they know and that sort of income will be. however the stock market has been on a glide path over the past couple of weeks. this signals two things. that investors had this before the deal end. it doesnt matter because as it slips into january. it will...

Gives obama the space and frankly gives governor romney the space to say, were no longer in the crisis were in. what are we going to do so that four years from now when whoever runs for president four years from now faces an economic with a lower unemployment rate. >> both candidates have their opportunity based on these numbers and quite honestly even numbers before that to point toward a vision for whats next. >> which is lacking from the debate the other night. >> correct. what romney does no...

Iraq, taking our troops out of iraq. he was given a glide path in iraq, but he pulled the troops out. brags about the fact that troops are out. gives a definite date for getting out in afghanistan. what he is doing is telling their allies they cant trust us and also telling others that the u.s. is not a reliable ally. and the fact that you would have the prime minister of israel on this show explaining his relationship with the president of the united states -- we have never had a such a disconn...

Iraq, taking our troops out of iraq. he was given a glide path in iraq, but he pulled the troops out. brags about the fact that troops are out. gives a definite date for getting out in afghanistan. what he is doing is telling their allies they cant trust us and also telling others that the u.s. is not a reliable ally. and the fact that you would have the prime minister of israel on this show explaining his relationship with the president of the united states -- we have never had a such a disconn...

responsibility is the right approach to take for, i think, not only the united states but also for europe. okay. >> republicans are saying youre blaming the europeans for the failures of your own policies. >> the truth of the matter is that, as i said, weve created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private-sector is doing fine. where were seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated...