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Will be the next prime minister. >> what about the story about the spending scandals around netanyahu and his wife will that be a factor? >> its what everybody is talking about, but people are also not beating up on his wife even though shes looking kind of like sarah palin at this point. most elections are defined by security, but they have terrible housing problems there now. and other economic problems. and the security issue doesnt all work for netanyahu. even though he wants it to and hes p...

The spending scandals around netanyahu and his wife, will that be a factor? >> its what everybody is talking about, but people are also not beating up on his wife, even though shes looking kind of like sarah palin at this point. most elections are defined by security, but they have terrible housing problems there now. and other economic problems. and the security issue doesnt all work for netanyahu. even though he wants it to, and hes playing that card hard. he could end up suffering from, you k...

Conflict i dont think theyre ever going to be able to present a coherent and cohesive plan to attack the housing problems we all face. >> heidi, i feel there are two pieces to that inherent conflict. there is the political piece. homeownership is like the other thing. apple pie and you say mother and you say homeownership. and the policy piece of it. an enormous amount of what one could call the middle class is devoted to giving subsidies for homeownership. and kind of to get at the policy you n...

The five-point plan the president laid out today did, as a sort of coherent vision for where the housing market should go from here, did you think it helped? did you think it made sense? >> i mean, i think the plan makes sense. what i think you spotted the inherent tension in what he was stating in that there is this -- he mentions rentals as, you know, being kind of a decent, honorable thing that our society should encourage. however homeownership is the cornerstone of middle class life. i dont...

Where the housing market should go from here, did you think it helped? did you think it made sense? >> i mean, i think the plan makes sense. what i think you spotted the inherent tension in what he was stating in that there is this -- he mentions rentals as, you know, being kind of a decent, honorable thing that our society should encourage. however homeownership is the cornerstone of middle class life. i dont think the administration has come to grasp with how much they should encourage rentals...

Increases. theres been $2 trillion worth of cuts. a lot of that went into the states budgets, then from the states to the cities themselves. then as the economy worsens, more people in cities become -- fall into poverty and become people who, in fact, need services rather than people who are productive. its a combination of things. its very, very difficult for cities. but cities have to make tough choices. when i became mayor we had the largest deficit in terms of percentage of revenue in any ci...

Current administration. the second thing is disposable income is inching up, but you dont have a dollar more in your pocket now than you did back in 2008. its flat since then and i think that toby mentioned housing problems, theyre informing up. unless you bought a house before 2000, you havent made a time and thats what people look for. >> brenda: oh, im very depressed. you took the smile off my face, im depressed. >> you probably bought your house in 1999, so youre in-- >> let me ask julian, t...

Raises and their uniform allowances, so we have taken this measure to suspend those portions of their contract. >> so its a freeze? no one is getting fired, no one is losing, no one is getting a lower salary or lower pay. >> correct. >> except to the extent you dont get overtime and your expectation may be lower? >> correct. we are doing that, weve balanced our budget and paid all our bills this year. we very a budget ready for next year and we are moving forward. now, weve been taken to court b...

Raises and their uniform allowances, so we have taken this measure to suspend those portions of their contract. >> so its a freeze? no one is getting fired, no one is losing, no one is getting a lower salary or lower pay. >> correct. >> except to the extent you dont get overtime and your expectation may be lower? >> correct. we are doing that, weve balanced our budget and paid all our bills this year. we very a budget ready for next year and we are moving forward. now, weve been taken to court b...

good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. and "outfront" tonight, exposed super pacs drop the fig leaf. after months of being in the dark about whose bankrolling the candidates, we have answers. now, you know that the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and you know theyre major players this election season. the federal election commission says this election might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are mor...