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Markets start getting very, very serious. they could go up 1% or so over the next two years as they get nervous, if if they dont see the presidential candidates and parties starting to at least talk about cooperating, but in 2013 well have to have a plan on the table that will work that shows a glide path to fiscal sustainability. >> the book "end game" the author john mauldin. thank you. >> good to be with you. kicking the oil drum down the road. if there was $1 trillion problem that everybod...

Afghan government and from our allies that 2014 is the date. that was the date remember that president karzai set as the date in which his country would be able to take responsibility for its own security. what we need to do now is begin the transition to afghan responsibility, but based on conditions on the ground. conditions where the afghans are in a position to be able to hold the land that weve cleared so that local people who have relied on us for security will not have to face the return ...

We would have a hard time making it. today im 55. i have no kids. were paying more in benefits than were collecting in taxes in about five years. in 2037 maybe even sooner you have to cut benefits by a third or across the table. all im suggesting is lets do with social security what ronald reagan and tip oneill did. lets get it in a sustainable glide path. you know the age has to be adjusted for all entitlements, including remedicare, to go from 67 to 69 like reagan and tip oneill did for people...

Dick durbin. and next to him, nbcs tom brok brokaw. everyone was up bright and early. lots of news to talk about this morning. >> and of course the president, a chicago man having to deal with a crisis in egypt that can go any direction. weve been showing live shots this morning of cairo. and i think a lot of us believed that we could be on a glide path to a peaceful transition. unfortunately yesterday afternoon a lot of those hopes shattered when mubarak changed course and i think not only surp...

And they feel that he came off looking pretty good. and even got to use his money line that they love so much around here, out-win, out-educate, win the future. they were pretty excited about it. >> it was a win-win for both of those guys when they get together. its always a win-win for them. lets move to egypt. we see the president being -- i guess you can say pragmatic on egypt. last week he seemed to be more with the demonstrators, pushing mubarak out. but now quietly behind the scenes, they ...

Homeowners. we need to have reasonable underwriting standards so that we dont continue to have these housing bubbles. jenna: mark, is that even possible to have that really happen? >> well, the question is going to be, you know, short term versus long term. i do think you need to find a glide path and a transition period where we can get the government out of this, but there are many countries around the world, canada, for instance, has a home homeownership rate hr than ours, and they dont have ...

Trade will be offered as an amendment so people will vote on it separately. theyll want to have a separate vote on this. i am skeptical and most people, whether that second-best option can get to 60. the glide path were on is a so-called energy-only bill. >> this is infuriating for many reasons. just to increase the frustration, the cdo has released its report on the bill showing it reduces the deficit by $19 billion, which seems like the kind of thing that we could get some, you know, conservat...

Separately. theyll want to have a separate vote on this. i am skeptical and most people, whether that second-best option can get to 60. the glide path were on is a so-called energy-only bill. >> this is infuriating for many reasons. the cdo released its report on the bill by showing it reduces the deficit by $19 billion. which seems to me we could get some conservative democrats and republicans behind. >> you might think. this is one of the great untold stories of the whole climate fight, is tha...

Mischaracterization out here. this is not the republican budget. long-term fiscal plan i myself put out. the republican budget is due in march. thats when we do the budget resolutions. budget is a ten-year glide path on where the governor ought to be the first ten years. thats not what my road map plan is. what john boehner was doing was setting the record straight which is i put out a long-term physical plan to turn our country around and pay off our debt and protect our seniors. and make sure ...

These claims are legitimate? >> no, i dont. i think this. who, whoever she is is mixed up. >> wow. kavanaugh has spent more than four hours at the white house, alt an initial told msnbc news she did not meet with the president. went to the meeting at the white house at 10:08 a.m. is he still there? >> he is. we have been asking, what is he doing? our colleague sent around a note with the latest details. apparently, brett kavanaugh has been doing phone banking, calling member of congress, defendi...