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>> as you say from your time on the ground, what is your sense of the way the police are handling it? >> well, i think the police are trying to do their jobs. i think that, you know, on a ground level, you know, police officers are trying to do their jobs and trying to keep order. i know that the family in this case was upset that after this young man who had been, you know, police got called to this neighborhood because there was shootings, they found this young man, they chased him, they event...

Know, there was an increase in shootings on sunday. i think that statistically wasnt so bad friday and saturday but sunday was a bad day. >> what is the reaction to the argument that mayor emanuel has made. on the one hand larger trends suggesting something theyre doing is working, on the other hand, understandable pain and frustration with this kind of terrible weekend? >> well, i can only speak to what i saw on the scene. i think that theres -- theres frustration, obviously, on the ground leve...

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While congress has been arguing over the fiscal cliff, the next big battle has already arrived. treasury secretary tim geithner says government borrowing hits the debt ceiling today. with me now, former new hampshire republican senator judd gregg. hes currently co-chairman of the campaign to fix the debt. senator, lets -- i want to start 50,000 feet, and well move down closer to ground level, but as a former member of the senate, weve now had two grand bargains, one around the debt ceiling, one ...

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Yes? the squirrels just came and got the nuts i put out for them this morning. yes, mr. president. so i left. went back to my office and i thought about it. i said, i know what he was saying to me, he was saying, colin, i really, really like you, i will sit here as long as you want me to, but its your problem. i hire you to solve problems. you let me know when i have a problem. i learned that lesson. when he did have a problem that only he could solve, leaves like that -- he was like that, he wa...

First start with the big number. >> the big number is 315,000. that is the number of people who simply stopped looking for work. they have dropped out of the workforce. the workforce shrank. thats why the unemployment rate came down so sharply to 8.6%. 315,000 people, by the way to put that in some perspective. that is the like the population of pittsburgh walking away from the labor force. this is really a picture of despair right down there on the ground level. we now have the smallest proport...