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number one, its obvious. red is republican. you see a lot of red. dane county here, this is the key county for democrat, 8% of the population. democrats say their turnout operation worked well there. but tom barrett the democrat getting 60% and scott walker getting 40% right there. barrett needs to be up around 70% in this key county right there. lets come back to the map here a little bit. this is waukesha county. the key county for republicans in this state. 75%, scott walker got jus...

Money involved. while the conservatives have talked about $47 billion being the figure, youre really looking at as much as $264 billion compared to the plans being put forward by, by conservatives in terms of the tax rates at the high end. >> that means just to clarify, that is if we were to extend the bush, bush tax cuts. then if we implemented the buffett rule, there would be more revenue that were getting because there would be a much bigger difference at the high end, right? >> thats right. ...

But that question about mitt romneys tax returns are outstanding and we still dont know if hell release any other years. so gingrich trying to shut up about this, but the even wider context here is that mitt romney has yet to come up with a failable position on the housing crisis. because floridas housing crisis is really, really awful, and nevadas is even worse, and thats the next contest. and so far mitt romneys most notable statement on the record about the housing crisis is this one. >> as t...

of congress packed up and went on vacation. so now 4,000 faa workers are not being paid. tens of thousands of others involved in airport construction and maintenance are also off t job. and some $25 million are being lost every day in taxes because there is no one there to collect. that is more revenue lost in one hour than you will probably pay in your lifetime because congress members cannot reach an agreement agreement. weill tear into this developing dispute in just a moment, but h...

Those who are balancing their budgets. >> thank you for standing up to the ruling class, thank you for standing up to the liberal power brokers, the guardians of the status quo, and the royal triangle of greed. big government. big unions. and big bailed out businesses. bill: maryland congressman chris van hollen is ranking democrat on the house budget committee, how you doing, sir, and good morning. >> doing fine, how are you? >> bill: doing fine and thank you for coming back to "americas newsro...

They faced last month, before the combat mission was over. what were formerly combat brigades are advise and assist brigades. youve still got platoons and companies going out partnering with iraqi security force toss secure the neighborhood. thankfully the situation there is a great deal better than it was before the surge, violence is down over 90 percent, markets are open , iraqs security forces are far more confident -- competent, but weve still got about 20,000 troops on a daily basis in har...

Where all this money is going. there are some successes, some areas were aid has been quite effective, but at the macro level, clearly it failed to achieve any sort of sustainable development for the country. >> so, if a lot of money is going to ngos and the u.n., i mean, i have never understood in these countries, people drive around in brand new vehicles. i have never seen so many brand new, clean, gleaming white land rovers in my life in places like haiti and congo. are they spending a lot of...

Effective. but at the macro level, clearly it has failed to achieve any sort of sustainable development for the country. >> so if a lot of money is going to ngos and the u.n., in all these countries, people drive around in brand new vehicles. ive never seen so many gliming white new land rovers in my life than ive seen in places like haiti and congo. are they spending a lot of money? >> there is a lot of money. haiti is considered to be an unstable environment. you do have things spent on securi...

In haiti, i read the u.s. had trouble tracking aid it gave to haiti after a 2004 storm because some initial fact finding trip was ruled as too dangerous? >> that is right. tracking the money has been a huge challenge. everyone realizes that there needs to be account bill knit aid and that it is important to have zero tolerance policy for corruption. but as a practical matter, what you have in haiti is so much money coming in from different sources, private source, multilateral organization as we...

Focusing on the perpetrators identity and their politics. that does a disservice to everybody, but because this isa political issue. rate victims, assault victims dont care whether the perpetrators are liberals, conservatives, democrats, republicans. it transcends politics. our discussion is not just here at the table but the american conservatives, democrats, republicans. it transcends politics. our discussion is not just here at the table but the american discourse should reflect it. >> kimber...