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moammar gadhafis grip on libya appears to be ending. rebels say they control 80% of the libyan capital today, pockets of gadhafi fighters are holding out. they still control this hotel thats home base for foreign journalists. gadhafis whereabouts are unknown. his loyalists continue to defend his compound. rebels keep rolling with no major resistance. they pour into the street to celebrate after they have taken much of tripoli. >> we were outside the windows screaming. everyone realized...

An absolute reduction from last year. not even a reduction from the presidents baseline which was $40 billion more because we remain in a very dire economic situation. if you take it from the presidents baseline if you are saying have the democrat comes over to the republican side of the table, theyve actually reduced what their ask was by $70 billion. >> certainly. and so weve already moved a long way in the republicans direction. >> jonathan, are you still there? >> yes, i am. >> you know, i w...

December, even though the president had a good lame-duck question. we said he got some thing, dont ask, dont tell repealed, some stimulus money. why did he not at the moment he agreed to extend the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest in particular, why did he not at that point put some of these structural issues on the table so at least get paul ryan and the republican incoming leadership to concede some points about medicare, medicaid? then when the president theoretically had more a negotiating l...

New top income tax bracket, so an increase in income tax. thats not there now. there are other taxes from the senate bill to replace that that might or might not be more attractive to people? is that the zone where there might be people more willing to vote for the version who didnt vote for the house version before? >> thats exactly the zone. the big thing the blue dog said about the original version is it doesnt do enough on cost control. the senate bill has two more cost control measures. the...

That the best path forward is where they have the votes. i dont know if they quite know that yet. we are in a place now -- and you will remember this from when it went the first time -- where everybody gets hard line because this is where you maximize negotiating leverage and this is when you cut your deal. >> the senior member of the united states senate, robert byrd, is back in the news. he has a rule in reconciliation named after him, the byrd rule. republicans are talking about it a lot thes...

By signing on to them so trump sees him self as a master dealmaker and hes going hes fulfilling his campaign promise of going hard with his trade policy to try and get a what he sees as a more favorable circumstance for the united states and i suppose the question now really. is the strategy really working for him. well some global economist think or at least hope that this is part of a grander strategy that donald trump has in which hes hoping to really hit hard in order to have more negotiatin...

By signing on to them so trump sees him self as a master dealmaker and hes going hes fulfilling his campaign promise of going hard with his a trade policy to try and get a what he sees as a more favorable circumstance for the united states and i suppose the question now really. is the strategy actually working for him. well some global economist think or at least hope that this is part of a grander strategy that donald trump has in which hes hoping to really hit hard in order to have more negoti...

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About this is not only a peg to the minimum wage is that unions actually want to frees out. its discriminatory against the lower skilled workers. say john and i are competing for the same job. both require minimum skills. john, though, has worked for two years, and hes in a union. well, i tell you what. if im willing to work for $9 and the minimum wage is bumped to 15, well, youre going to look for john because john has a little bit more experience. so its actually discriminatory this minimum wa...