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who will be that winner? south carolina senator will be throwing his support behind donald trump tonight. who does that hurt more? nikki haley who was the former governor of the palmetto state or ron desantis who just moved most of his campaign staff to the palmetto state. what the florida governor makes of this latest move. ron desantis is here and only here. >> neil: welcome. busy show for you. the governor will be joining us shortly. bryan llenas in new hampshire on the fast-moving ...

Want to see 34ed kade -- im sorry, medicare touched but the belt way folks, the folks that are going to be voting on this do want to see that. >> yes, would he do. >> what are we going to bring to the table? are we just going to say were not going to bargain with you? i mean, at what level do we allow for, say, means testing? we may not like it, but thats what its going to allow. >> means testing, we can do means testing. if you want to do means testing, theres a very efficient way of doing it. ...

Potentially. >> yeah, right. >> from the release of all of this? >> can i tie that into the bradley manning case again? >> sure. >> its not just his treatment in quantico that is causing this chilling effect. you have to bear in mind the main charge, charge number one against him is aiding the enemy. now this is a massively chilling thing. what hes being accused of is by posting something via wikileaks on the internet, that by doing so he effectively had an interest in osama bin laden. they dont...

Profession. >> take a look. we now know that two major new york media figures have pretty heavy questions to answer as a result of the inquiry in the u.k. into press behavior as a result of the phone hacking scandal. it is 1 million pages long. tiny bits are important here in new york, because james murdoch, son of rupert and some people think heir to the huge empire, why he was so unethically engaged in what was going on? did he know who are more than he told us? he also asked why did the final...

Independent redistricting even though that doesnt affect the senate, its something that happens at the very local level and then migrates up to the federal level. >> in terms of this culture of essentially polarization? >> exactly. polarization. im also a fan of nonpartisan primaries. there are some unintended consequences to that. we see at every level we become more and more entrenched in our partisan presence preferences. weve seen it in other issues. the senate has become dysfunctional. >> i...

The seniors, who in many cases may not be able to afford it, or their kids to pay for it. so this idea that somehow this is -- you know, were burdening our grandkids by not cutting medicare, thats ridiculous. >> right. >> those grandkids are going to pay for it. theyre actually going to pay more in the private insurance industry than they would in medicare. >> when they get old enough. >> im talking about those grandkids literally. theyre going to be paying for their grandparents or their parent...

Alignment of wealth. now its becoming 55 -- >> youre talking about such an infinitesimally small number of people. we could fit all of those people in this room. >> youre talking about african-americans in the united states that are subject to the he state tax? >> im not arguing the actual merits of the issue, im telling you the politics of it. the congressional black caucus voted with george bush. >> i know they did. >> were going to talk about the politics of it. >> they are. >> if were going ...

In just a moment what we know now that we department know last week. first a quick update on a story we did last weekend. on saturday we took a look at the cultural phenomenon that was black friday. we discussed consumer behavior, the line waiting and getting up too early. we focused on the amount of money that stores like walmart can make on black friday. it can be up to 40% of their annual sales. im compelled to mention this after a fire in a bang gla desh garment factory killed 112 workers. t...

Enough money, why have universal benefits for people who dont have the money? >> indexing it. >> indexing it. making it an adjusted kind of thing. >> makes sense. >> why not? >> first off, medicare is already means tested. >> yes. right. >> you already do have some measurement. if you want to means test it more, theres a very efficient way of doing it, a far more efficient way than to have a new bureaucracy thats going to determine what your net worth is and thats called taxation. we take it fro...

>> we have unanimity at the table. what else? >> second is to take away the filibuster in getting a bill to conference committee because, quite frankly, at that point both houses have passed a bill. you should get to negotiations as quickly as possible. >> let me explain this. lets say -- now were going to do a little "schoolhouse rock" how a bill becomes law. youve passed a bill through the house, you have a bill through the senate. you have two bills that are inevitably a little bit different....