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Joining me tonight are political Strategist And Commentator Rina Shah and columnist for the i and former Labour Executive Director of Policy Andrew Fisher first , the latest headlines. Israels Defence Minister has said the military is opening a new phase in the war, and will be diverting troops and resources northwards. Yoav gallant was speaking to troops at an airbase near the border with lebanon. It comes as 14 people have been killed and at least a50 injured in further explosions across leban...

Aid, and whats troublesome here is the characterization of pork applied to stuff like fixing roads and community centers and actually doing real fixes on damage. i think what hes saying, the governor j that its not a fair label to call it pork. its a way of posturing. >> and two-thirds. where do you get that number? >> he made it up. teds particularly good at that. he just made it up. you know it and i know it. he made it up because it sounded good. >> i never said that. by the way, i would neve...

Put that into the budget, it became a prize to some people. some people called it pork, but it has a purpose, especially now with the coal industry on its last leg. >> my sense was go down there and see what the program is doing. theyre paying people for getting train and leading to jobs, and these are folks who want the new industries there. and thats what the funding is going for. its a success. we dont have to be ineasing it. i often say for the president who made his whole reputation on thea...

Steps in picking a committee that will talk about the future of federal spending and the debt and hopefully craft a plan to take the federal government through the next year. >> for more on what is in the bill, lets turn to cnns athena jones. she is live with us in washington this morning. theres actually some stuff in there that is quite a surprise to a lot of people and outrage to a few people too. >> reporter: good morning, john. some people may call it pork. the bill is 35 pages and our folk...

>> john is it okay. >> no, it is not okay. no one will vote against the hurricane sandy bill and so things that were unrelated n to it is put inside it and 80 or 90 years ago we did not followize the disaster. we would make sure they didnt do corrupt act to get it through. if you want to see more of this. keep having washington pay fors that are tragic and local. >> is that the point when we federalize with fema and other agencies and thats when the trouble came in and when everybody loads the p...

>> reporter: the state of alaska was just short of being 9 years old when it sent ted stevens to the u.s. senate. >> many people doubted whether alaska had what it took to be a successful state. >> reporter: oil had just been discovered along alaskas arctic coast. but there was no easy way to get it to the rest of america. stevens pushed congress to authorize an 800-mile pipeline to the ice-free port of valdez. >> that act dramatically improved americas energy security and secured the economic f...

The union members are down and the power is going away. the effect on the economy overstated anyway. new york is 25% union membership and lower unemployment than north carolina which 3% union members. >> cheryl: great discussion, everybody. coming up, hidden in the healthcare law. billions for playgrounds and bike trails. republicans calling it pork. are they right or wrong?

Is "bulls and bears." here is gary and tracy and jonas and john along with chuck. welcome to everybody. so, john, the president doesnt see a difference. do you? >> yes, i do. and one of the reasons that the president does not see the difference is that he has never been in private enterprise and none of the advisers and look, comparing the government to what the corporations do, and the corporations have accounting that is transparent and if not, they will hear from the shareholders and they hav...

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