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Theyve decided they are not willing to negotiate. that is what we heard, from chuck schumer. they are not willing to negotiate. so they want to put john boehner in a box, he will not be allowed to be put into the a box. all the conservatives are trying to hang together now because we definitely want to come to a solution. martha: this is turns into a debate over which side is more divided if you havent figured that out and, a schumer spokesperson says about the whole thing, he was caught on a co...

A lot of backlash from our police and firemen, teachers, professors, and lead to a referendum, in which i worry that the entire bill will be thrown out. martha: let me ask you this, sir: it really goes back to the basic premise of whether or not public unions should have the right to collectively bargain, because they basically work for the taxpayer and they often give political contributions to, you know, a lot of people running for office, then they get these favors handed back to them. this h...

$3 million in union campaign contributions in 2010 alone. >> they know that their friends are going to take care of them. if we had a republican governor and republican house and republican senate, seriously looking at this issue objectively and saying where can we make more concessions, you would have union members in the streets. >> well now democrats are saying the big reason were not seeing protests here is because the republicans who are the minority are not going after collective bargainin...

People over the years. hes about 30 years old. in those years of captivity, theyve always been crnt yl. its so massive, its twice as large as the other orcas at sea world, its primarily used to splash the crowd and this is in defiance, somewhat, of what some federal regulators wanted. osha issued a citation saying that sea world exposed its trainer to danger by not adequately its trainers that are recommended, that trainers never again be exposed to tilikum but for the past year they have been, ...

To viewers, we have an audio delay which can be somewhat awkward. im going to move forward here. the first thing i want you to do is listen to a piece that bill hemmer did yesterday with john kasich and well get your reaction to that. lets play that now: >> i absolutely know its going to get done and what its going to do is just rebalance -- look, when you have private sector workers paying 23 percent for their health wear and city workers paying 9 percent, youve got to rebalance that, bill, tha...

Every female who has ever worked for walmart. martha: right. >> so youre talking about a case thats worth a few hundred thousand dollars if the six people are allowed to sue, versus a case thats worth between 3-$5 billion if the six people can sue in behalf of all females. in order for the six to represent all females, they would have to show that the pattern of discrimination against fee heals -- females was part of company policy, came from company management and was systematically enforced so...

Of these tax revenues coming in and that peoples incomes appear to be rising in some of these states and thatsle helping, so those two things appear to be a pretty decent for economic times. >> back to the original question, state revenues are going up because some states have raised their income taxes. martha: right. >> sales taxes have been raised. thats bringing in some more money. theres been an increase in personal income in many, many states, thats helping bring in more money, too. right o...

Is going to be in egypt. what is going to be the outcome in egypt. >> we still dont know the outcome in egypt and libya and the difference was the military was on the side of the protesters and not the government and libya, qaddafi has his forces, which are -- >> on the side -- >> slaughtering citizens in libya, that was not the case in egypt, you cannot conflate the two. >> we need a strategy for the entire region, not a one-off strategy. martha: that is the big question, gentlemen, thank you s...

There, smile! >> martha: something to be happy about. right? bill: for now! >> martha: we need that today because there is no end in sight in the libya situation as qaddafi forces once again are gaining ground in the battle against the rebels today, a lot of breaking news on this front that you need to know about. what about bahrain and syria, though, which are also percolating in a dangerous way? were going to take a closer look, well give you the very latest on the ground from those countries ...

>> reporter: the entire speech was one part national pep rally and part kabuki theater, and several points people interrupted his speech to say how wonderful the president was, clearly that was not spontaneous, something that appeared to be completely staged and one man i believe a gentleman in sunglasses yelled out that he was too great for the arab world and the arab world was not worthy of him and, there were attempts to address the prefe protesters needs and, there was none of that and he di...