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as americans point out, americans are getting impatient about how the government is handling the economy and should they slash spending to get things moving. bill: stuart, so much can be perception about how you feel about your own sense of worry, in this case, money, job, and the perception does not appear to be changing. >> look, i have never seen such concern about debt and the decifit in all the years that ive been covering the american economy. thirty-five years, never seen anythi...

developments coming out of the g-20 summit. whats been accomplished there in toronto, your hometown? >> well, fred, it is my hometown. in fact in a few minutes youll hear from jean mazur who is out in the streets where protests are continuing and hundreds of arrests take place. all the way down. you might be able to see the cn tower by lake ontario. thats where the world leaders and finance ministers are meeting. theyll wrap it up in a few hours. the g-8 and the g-20 were back-to-back ...

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The least substantive but most entertaining criticism of the elaiena kagan nomination. that is happening on the right. nobody really thinks the right will stop this nomination, but the wildly thrown and missed punches coming from the right have been very fun to watch. for example, republican senator john cornyn of texas says hes super concerned that shes never been a judge before. that of course means shes totally unqualified for the supreme court. she wont even know how to put on the robe. corn...

>> do you think that the meiers nomination showed that it would be almost impossible for someone to serve on the supreme court now if they havent been a judge before? >> i dont think that should be the case. one reason i felt so strongly about harriet miers qualifications is i thought she would fill some very important gaps in the supreme court. because right now you have people who have been federal judges, circuit judges, most of their lives, and what you see is a lack of grounding and reality...

u.s. waters for obvious reasons, inspects foreign-flagged rigs a little differently. >> how many wells do they drill in the marshall islands? >> not -- i dont know of the deep water horizon obviously never drilled -- its whats called a flag of convenience in the sense that the marshall islands -- theyre flagged under the marshall islands, they meet the standards that the marshall islands registry proposes. a classification society goes onboard on behalf of the marshall islands registry...

Republican party, an energetic battle over philosophy. >> jon cornyn, he says that once you leave the party, you cant come back. >> absolutely true. lets remember that you know, charlie crist was potentially a front-runner for the vice presidential nomination of your party not that long ago and now, he never can come back. >> im in new hampshire and -- not gone, i havent gotten a lot of invitations except for contributions. this difference between me and charlie crist, i dont think crist has dee...

Fight for health care and immigration. what is the other side for wall street. i dont know why anybody would want to defend their characters we saw on television so vividly. that arrogant bunch. >> mitch mcconnell was in manhattan a few weeks ago to meet with jon cornyn and thats by and large been their benefactor. wall streets been their benefactor. mcconnells obstructionism has worked for 16 months politically in terms of the polls and all that. it aint working on this one. he thought it did a...

put the pin down. step away from the clipboard. what their signatures meant? were that the pot-supporting californians just registered for the republican party. in one stroke, people went from easing pot laws to joining forces with john boehner. whiplash. according to the orange county register, since march, 99 written complaints were filed by voters who were registered as republicans without their consent. they lied, misrepresented themselves and some pretended they were students coll...

that would shut the leak. theyve tried that now since sunday and what they thought was going to be a 24 to 36 hour operation is now stretched into thursday and involves eight robotic submersibles and they still cant get it done. i was at the leak site on tuesday. the seas are so choppy that they are not going to do those controlled burns. its too dangerous. and not only can you not burn the oil, but as they try to bring the booms around and send the skimmer, the oil keeps going over th...