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So what kind of power plants are we going to build? will we get back to nuclear? will we capture and store carbon dioxide? how many electric vehicles can realistically be on the road in five or ten or fifteen years? these are policy judgments. my view is that the costs of inaction are so frightening for the world theyre beyond our imagining because the world is not good at handling the kinds of shocks that are ahead. they could be devastating for hundreds of millions of people easily. they could...

Hyperbole. i was making it sound more kooky than it is. when louie gohmert says it, they wouldnt have to pay anything for the baby. then they could be taken back where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists. tear rift babies. surely they look like babies. clearly we have to repeal the 14th amendment. to protect us from the terrorist babies. its amazing. fear is a tried and true political strategy. scaring people about foreign threats is a way of life for people who look different ...

Before the break, you were starting to lay out for us your point at least about the michelle obama trip to spain. >> the thing im struggling with here and im not going to call rush limbaugh a racist but thats a racial attitude saying black people have never traveled abroad until the first lady got her shot at spain. i mean, look, i speak three languages. i lived in europe. i lived overseas. the idea that shes getting back at white people for slavery for paying her own way to take her daughter to...

As of this weeks round of primary, todays most important you dont know is now 8 for 8 in endorsing staunch conservatives who went on to win nominations to the u.s. senate. hes south carolinas junior senator jim demint and hes conservative to the core. he ran a market research company and did advertising before getting into politics. after three terms in the house, he moved to the senate in 2004. thats the same year as illinois freshman senator who quoted him a lot during the health care reform d...

Side of the working families or someone who will side with wall street and the belief that it might trickle down. >> heres the problem, liberal democrats like my opponent sestak dont rise like when you cut them, you can raise it. the fact is in 2003 we cut taxes for everyone who paid taxes and within two years, the federal government was taking in more revenue than it took in before the tax cuts. precisely because the economy was growing so much. if we raise taxes now as joe sestak advocates and...

Right now there is a long line of green cards in the queue which will take ten years to cure if there is no action. >> i hope people read your book because its very hard to get past the hyperbole and understand exactly what is behind the administration. pia is t richards is the author of "behind the golden door." stay there, well be right back. morality versus money. were looking at what america is willing to legalize to fill the budget gaps after this. ♪ band: how many credit cards ♪ is t...

The other says we give too many visas out and we invite too many part-time into this country. how much immigration do we need? >> well, the truth is -- i mean the truth is that lets start with how we bring people in. so take for example the h 1 b program. we allocate very few green cards. when they decide they want to stay, theyre stuck in a quota of long lines. . its going to take ten years to clear if theres no action. >> pia, i hope lots of people read your book, because what people need to d...

About the last thing you discover. theres always a precipitating event, theres always a trigger, something that gets the police engaged to begin with and you may never get to the point where you need to inquire about somebodys citizenship status. thats just hyperbole and hisstera of something that isnt going to happen. >> and thats not the only courtroom dram machlt how about rod blagojevichs lawyer delivering a bombastic and loud closing argument today, that even the judge called a show. well h...

Thats convicted of a felony and someone who hasnt, you might -- or you would want to prioritize the violent offender over someone whos not. but at the same time to suggest arizonas law would completely overwhelm the federal government, i do think is a bit of hyperbole. shannon: all right, another argument was the fact that this could hamper our relationship with mexico. we need their cooperation along the border because there is so much trouble there. they dont like this law, in fact, mexico has...

You know, are we sort of at the point where social media is a game-changer for the way companies sell and market? are we not quite there yet? >> first of all, ive got to ask, is ford an advertiser on this channel? >> no, im a big, big, im a big fan. you know, im a big fan of that company because when everything else was going south, this was a company that didnt take public money and managed to do the right thing. we blame those companies that took the public money. and squandered the public tru...