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Policy issue that really divides the country. republican sources say look, theres no question that is an issue but also say that spending cuts is still a big problem. and, of course, that for them is an issue that they are -- conservatives are pressing them very hard to stand their ground on. >> as a longtime watcher of washington politics, im struck by some of the body language in negotiation like this where it is really tense. you dont always see the republican specific and democratic majority...

Were on a path, a slow path but a path nevertheless to get to the $61 billion in reductions of this years spending that house republicans were able to send over to us. so i think it should pass and will pass. the second issue is related to policy. these are always controversial. there are people that want policy riders on appropriation bills, people that want them off. it will be worked out in a negotiating process to get a solution to the funding of this years budget. weve got a lot bigger fina...

Include $6 billion in cuts, so were on a path, slow path but a path, nevertheless, to get to the $61 billion in reductions of this years spending. house republicans were able to send over to us. so i think it should pass, and will pass. the second issue is related to policy. these are always controversial. there are people that wants policy riders on appropriation bills, people who want them off and this will be worked out in some kind of negotiating process as we go forward, trying to get an ul...

Some accusations you did that to box abbas in a corner and sort of hurt the negotiating process. any accuracy to that? what was the logic behind the release of the documents and whats happened since then? >> we saw the documents some time before we released them. we studied them very, very carefully, we verified them, made sure they were factually correct. we carried out all of the journalism on those documents. and we were absolutely confident with the verification of those documents. we had as...

>> we are independently of one another. we share a resource, we share a picture, and we obviously reach out to the experience when theyre covering stories. we have benefit from that experience. but ultimately, the bottom line is theyre reaching out to an arabic speaking population, which is based across the middle east and north african region. and we are reaching out to an english-speaking audience, which is global. that truly means that our editorial agenda will be distinct from our sister cha...

>> it would have been easier. thats not the point. collective bargaining is good for if government. i was able toeduce the cost in philadelphia and harrisburg by changing unemployment benefits and getting harrisburg for the first time to pay into their health care plan. i was able to do that through the collective bargaining process. republicans are acting as if collective bargaining means you can never make changes for the better, never save money or change work rules. thats not true. what gove...

Government if they cant get cuts in that budget, yes, they do, but you have to seem serious as part of the negotiating process. i do know the republicans believe the atmospherics were different now than last time when the government shut down, that people do want cuts in spending, but as you mentioned theres a lot of things that hit home to people when the government shuts down. social security checks keep coming for a while. in fact, in the last shutdown they werent disrupted, but, you know, th...

They know contribute 3% of salary. but we did that there the negotiating process. thats why what the governor and republican senators are trying to do is so wrong. unions have had excesses, but lets make it clear. for public employees and private employees, unions have given them rights they never would have had other ways. theyve made them middle class. >> im just following along and its fascinating everything that you were able to do, but im looking ats the proposed cuts not targeting private ...

Tamed. the alternative is higher taxes. until the middle class is picked clean and the u.s. economy is no longer competitive, unquote. talking points believes thats basically true that union wages and benefits have now reached the point where governments cant afford to operate and even some private concerns cant make a profit. right now there are 22 right-to-work states in america. places like texas and florida where the unions do not control the negotiating process. the fair thing to do in wisc...

The alternative is higher taxes. until the middle class is picked clean and the u.s. economy is no longer competitive, unquote. talking points believes thats basically true that union wages and benefits have now reached the point where governments cant afford to operate and even some private concerns cant make a profit. right now there are 22 right-to-work states in america. places like texas and florida where the unions do not control the negotiating process. the fair thing to do in wisconsin w...