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Popular. a lot of the decisions in terms of getting our budget under control may not be popular, but i think the reason that allen and erskine took on this assignment is because they were convinced i was sear about it and i will stand with them as they come up with the recommendations. thank you very much, everybody. all right, the president of the united states right there. members of his debt commission, the commission on fiscal responsibility and reform, first formal meeting today, 10:00 a....

Budget, congress is going to have to make some really tough choices to bring it down. the tpresidents policymakers have a tough task ahead of them. coming up with more than $500 billion in new revenue or spending cuts to reduce the annual deficit to 3% of the gross domestic product. were going to break all that out in just a second here. we are joined now bycnnmoney.com. she has written a fascinating piece on this still at cnnmoney.com. lets start here. before we get to the solutions to the mo...

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Lets turn now to the ongoing crisis in haiti. humanitarian flights of people critically hurt in the earthquake will resume tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern. the flights had been temporarily suspended out of concern that the sheer volume of injured haitians would overwhelm u.s. facilities. a white house spokesman now says the administration has been reassured there is adequate capacity in the u.s. health care system to accommodate the injured haitians. the suspension of the medevac flight...

$1.5 trillion to the debt over years. what about all that talk? is this republicans saying never mind. >> those are the facts that are ignoring this is growing the economy skbloo how do you know that. >> look at history -- if you look at history. >> you look at history that hasnt been the case. >> go back to the reagan tax cuts eight of the next ten years government revenue was higher after the tax cuts than it was the years the taxes were cut. you had millions -- $15 million jobs per capita hig...

Is this republicans saying nevermind? >> no, those are the facts ignoring that this is going to grow the economy. >> how do you know that? you look at history, that hasnt been the case. >> you go back to the reagan tax cuts. government revenue was higher after the tax cuts than it was the year that the taxes were cut. you had 15 million jobs created per capita. >> the debt was way higher. >> that was not a revenue problem. >> its a money problem. >> we can control the spending if you keep republ...

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>> yesterday eric shinseki resigned and that did not come as a big surprise to anybody. the first thing is the replacement and interim sloan gibson. good idea? >> somebody needed to move in. sloan is a good man and he will at least in the interim period start the process that needs to be done. there is a lot of confidence that needs to be restored in the department of veterans affairs and i think he can get that started and i talked to him after the president made the announcement and he would t...

Have conversations with adults on my show about the notion of education funding. and ive had folks push back and say, we spend more than anyone else, we spend tons of money on education. how could it possibly be a money problem? how would you respond to that? >> well, obviously, its not their main priority, even if they do spend a lot of money, they might not spend enough, or they might be taking money from it. for instance, our governor, he took about $1 billion from public education statewide ...

Judge. the jury is not involved in that process whatsoever. now, we should tell you that there is a possibility of an appeal here. we understand that that would not come until after the sentencing. his defense team not releasing any form of an official statement today after the verdict indicating whether or not they would, in fact, go that route in this case, shep. >> shepard: casey stegall on scene. hes reported, dr. murray could face four years behind bars. how much time will he actually serve...