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it is a statement from the nra. they are gearing up for the 2014 election. a big meeting they held in houston. here are the numbers to call. the nra queues up for the 2014 election. you can: or find as online on ,witter, facebook.com journal@c-span.org. a lot of headlines following up this convention. post," -- ashington "the baltimore sun the" headline -- and from "the new york times," -- here is a little bit of tape from wayne lapierre in houston yesterday. [video clip] >> we are the...

sprained his knee. he stayed in and stayed in the series. >> jon: 14 hits and 28 at-bats. >> mike: and a pop-up from holiday to scutaro. >> jon: more than just a little irony. rockies spent jim wright, pitching coach out to the mound. now game five in cincinnati, sergio romo. and scott rolland, down on strikes. that was his 35th pitch. he worked hard to get through that one. >> mike: i thought the body block that romo laid on it, i never saw that, who was that? someone came around the ...

Lets bring back the gaggle. mike viqueira and jennifer ruben. one of the pieces of conventional wisdom always circulated in washington is the good old days of washington ended with the robert bork confirmation hearings and republicans say ted kennedy started it and republicans said no, it started with newt gingrich or that period -- or it started with jim wright, and what do you say? conventional wisdom because we all lived for it? >> you can look at scalia and you can point to that and say 98-0...

0 >> i learned dee dees daughter may be a future reaganite. >> i worry about it sometimes. >> im concerned to have a republican among my batch. im serious. one of my daughters, selfish, loves money. what your going to do? if its way too early, its "morning joe." time for chuck todd and "the daily rundown." the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep. and you never count your money when youre sitting at the table. there will be time enough for counting when th...

Say, lets get to the arithmetic. right now the federal government is spending about 23% of gdp. its collecting about 17%. weve got to get back to around 20%. both sides have to give a bit. if were going to get close to 20%. both sides have to give a bit. its not as simple as the government is growing by leaps and bounds. its up above where a lot of people would like to see it. get it back to 20%, get the r f revenues up to 20%. why does everybody act like its so complicated. >> we know the house...

0 yet. these two fellows. i dont see it yet. >> speaker boehner continues to stamp his feet. he says treasury secretary tim geithner, with whom he met this morning, im quoting him, has no specific plan. but isnt speaker boehner confusing the issue here? the president has made it clear that he wants to sign a bill thats already passed the senate and would retain current tax rates for those earning less than $250,000. >> its a piece. they dont think hes given what they want to see in terms of enti...

>> theres a few rules of the road for the events if you have not been to one before. the speaker will speak, and if you have questions, we have a microphone riergt here. please say your name as a curtesy, ask your question, shell answer questions for a half hour or so, and after that, shell sign books, come here, and shell sign going in this direction. we ask two favors. one, fold up the chairs at the end and stack them on the book shelf to make life easier for the staff, and, also, if...

this is just under an hour. >> good evening, and on behalf of the marines memorial association, i would like to welcome you to tonights program on the book "those who have borne the battle." the author is dr. jim wright, and dr. wright is an american historian, the president emeritus of dartmouth college and a marine. my name is bucky peterson, and im a director emeritus on the marines memorial association board of directors. before we begin, a few quick words about the marines memoria...

him. these are >> we just saw for example, john standing next to the representative and presenting for the citizens. and thats a challenge, because john is incredibly effective, and having a white house engaged is important. but it has the character to what ken mentioned earlier, to diminish others in the government. because if you have foreign officials knows its the white house that makes the decision. only the white house that they deal with, and there is a real tough balance there....

cliff. it refers to a series of automatic spending cuts and tax increases that will take effect in january. cbo estimates this will cause a significant recession next year. they are predicting 0.5% negative growth. that would be a recession by many measures. it had warned of negative growth next year but it is much deeper than that what they had one before. they are looking at 3% contraction of the economy if congress fails to act on the fiscal cliff. >> what actions might they take to...