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>> brian: i cant believe the time, 8:00 on the east coast. more illegal immigrants arrested for violent crimes. former president trump lays out his plan to take action. >> well begin to remove these criminals from our midst immediately, well do it immediately. do we have a choice? well not live like this. >> steve: more on that later. fox weather alert. heave waves across united states with 92 million people, many of you watching now, under sweltering heat warning. >> lawrence: los ang...

Syrian president or else. police have arrested a man for robbing supreme court justice stephen breyer with a machete. local is accused of stealing $1,200 at machete point from justice breyer. his wife and two friends while they were playing cards in their vacation home down there in the caribbean. and thats the news, gretch. >> from the g.o.p. candidates to president obama, it seems like everyone is invoking ronald reagan in the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election. listen to this. >> this ...

Cutting sharply, the discretionary spending. which is pretty devastating for the country. and that, i think we all agree on that point. >> no, were not. >> its the other way around. were not cutting discretionary spending. >> were not severely cutting discretionary spending, its being squeezed out over time. but its not a severe cut. >> as a share of rising population and a rising economy, its going down to levels that are unmanageably low. its going from right now, 3.1% of national income to be...

But were going to have a mad six-week scramble on dealing with the butch tark cuts, just like we did at the end of 2010 because theres no way either party has the stomach to actually deal with this looming issue, because by the way, they do nothing, tachs go up on everybody and by the way, it actually would bring down the long-term deficit discussion. but thats a whole another case, because nobody wants the middle class portion of the bush tax cuts to go up. but thats what were dealing with. whi...

Sleep. >> no, he didnt. >> s-6. >> its the table s-6. its how much were actually spending as a share of our national income. and the point is, its not quite when youre saying joe. if you take medicare in 2011 and compare it with medicare in 20020, as a share of gdp, what do you think happens? >> it may go up slightly. >> do you think its going up? >> yes. >> its 3.2% of gdp in 2011. 3.3% of gdp in 20020. there is no explosion of medicare spending. >> wait a minute, wait a minute. jeffrey, come o...

Mckinnon, to talk to about this. it seems to be, mark, the right candidate doing it really good resonate with the american people. i go back to the poll that we always show. 70% of tea party members tell pollsters, i just love this, get the government off my back. and yet, the biggest program, medicare, dont touch my medicare! and by the way, i use that for liberals, too. it is the most absurd world view that i dont want the federal government in my life, but give me medicare. >> i want what i w...

Something. and this is the point that joe likes to make and that pointly i dont disagree with, dr. sachs can disagree with, but essentially it is crowding out stuff. we can see this clearly, if you look at the latest budget that the president up and you look at the proposed changes in spending from last year to this year. youll see that the president is talking about an overall increase of almost exactly zero in total federal spending, 0.2%. but entitlements are going up 8%. because these are ma...

morning? >> reporter: good morning to you, kyra. the body of whitney houston flew back yesterday to new jersey. left the airport here in the los angeles area and is now back in new jersey. the latest is that the investigation, according to the beverly hills police department who came out yesterday and gave a press conference saying the investigation at the beverly hilton hotel is over and theyre saying it is not a criminal investigation, it is a death investigation. theyre saying that ...

>> congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. weve been through this before, remember? weve seen this movie. we dont need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. >> lets go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprisi...

Argument. residents of this area say thats what they want to see before they see any so-called comprehensive immigration reform. the fence behind me a few miles to the west and a few miles to east, that fence stops and the only thing that stops illegal immigrants and drug smugglers from coming across the border is rough terrain and an occasional border patrol agent. we spent the last couple of days with ranchers in this area still hurting over the death of one of their neighbors, rob krentz, kil...