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Just keep trying to solve our financial problems on the back of the military. if we keep doing that, who will have our backs the next time we get attacked? jon: so some of these troops, for instance, back from afghanistan, who have been out fighting the war, they come back, the pentagon says welcome home, were going to increase your medical health care premiums 300% or more? >> iraq, afghanistan, and they have been there, some of them many times. jon: and it isnt just those serving now or recent...

Ed, and hes now making it clear who is not doing what needs to be done. that is having the hearing process, having it work through committee, and brought to the floor for a vote. he is very methodical in setting them up. i hope that he does not relinquish the pressure. as long as he presses and keeps pushing them, he will continue to show to the american people hes done everything that hes the president can do is lead. he needs some followers. when john boehner has 171 bridges in his own distric...

Who is not doing what needs to be done. that is having the hearing process, having it work through committee, and brought to the floor for a vote. he is very methodical in setting them up. i hope that he does not relinquish the pressure. as long as he presses and keeps pushing them, he will continue to show to the american people hes done everything that hes the president can do is lead. he needs some followers. when john boehner has 171 bridges in his own district that he doesnt care about, hed...

So, this is still obviously a battle that is ongoing, senator. what happens next? >> well, the justice presently hearing the original case that came to her, which basically questioned whether or not the gop, whether or not they followed the law when they did, the open records law. the argument is they did not because there was only a two-hour notice and when they did that, they also went over the objection of one of my colleagues, the mine norority l. while he was in the middle of asking a quest...

Prison. now to that showdown in madison. opposing sides in the wisconsin budget battle descend on the state capitol battling over a budget proposal the governor stands by saying it will save jobs. >> is this bill going to pass as is or is there any room for movement at all? >> i think in the end weve made significant adjustments to address legitimate concerns people have raised throughout the legislative hearing process. again, were broke. weve got to balance the budget. the only alternative i...

Use past rulings by conservative justices to dismantle the talking points that kagan would politicize the bench. senator al franken will have a long list of such decisions. she was for big oil when it came to paying up for "exxon valdez." we dont know one way or another how she will rule because shes spent a lifetime keeping her opinions to herself, hoping to be in exactly this situation and trying, many believe, to keep as little evidence as possible as to what it is she believes so shes better...

And silent for more than an hour while lawmakers let him have it. >> mr. hayward, im sure you will get your life back and with a golden parachute back to england. >> i dont want to know whether youre distraught. >> i think youre insulting our intelligence. >> is it true that it is just all about profit? >> it is unconscionable. >> it isnt the first hearing in which a bp executive has been, as congressman bart stupak described it -- >> fair lie slicly sliced and d. >> mr. stern asked mr. mckay to...

And its saying if you want to change the rules, go ahead and change them, but dont do it retrospectively. the members of congress are saying to wall street you fundamentally violated youre duty to the public, to the investment community, and you are nothing more than self-centered self-aggrandizing investors yourselves. >> so mr. cohen, do you agree with this? in theory, im guessing sort of new information was supposed to come out of this hearing process that would inform kind of the regulatory ...

Potential need for more authority or more specific legislation, that you would also come back to us -- >> absolutely. >> thank you. mr. chairman, thank you again, and i yield back. >> thank you. i now yield five minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, congressman kanjorski. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. welcome, mr. secretary. >> thank you. >> from arriving at this meeting today, i assume this is one of the more uplifting sessions that youve had since in office. i think this is proba...

Starr and wrote the report that led to the impeachment of president clinton, he said lying to the american public is an impeachable offense. thats clearly at play in the mueller investigation. as well, lying under oath is an impeachable offense according to kavanaugh. so if the president gets interviewed and lies, then you have a justice who if he gets confirmed has said thats an abuse of office and impeachable defense. the thing that i think that really needs to be fleshed out through the heari...