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Live media pretty straight forward. what else can we do? we are begging. >> the demands were pretty much the same in all four of them. you can hear the pressure on these hostages as they repeated these demands. but every one of them gave clues to authorities about the situation inside that very tense room. >> and then the answer to this might be quite simple, but. sometimes its illusive, and that is that the media was asked not to air those during this incident. >> yeah, authorities want to have...

Back into the fight. would i have made the deal? i dont know. kant answer that because i dont know all the facts and i dont know what the other options are. theres one other very important point that needs to get out there. theres a reasonable legal argument that these five guys would have had to be released anyway within the next year under the law of war. they were being held in guantanamo as enemy combatants. under the law of wore when hostility ceased, enemy combatants have to be released. w...

Potential leak issue. what they would do is hold them aside because of everything that you could hold on to as a terrorist could prove to be a negotiating tool when it comes time to conducting an operation. whats odd though to us, i guess is, that there is no debris, have all of these ships out there looking. satellite imagery are and everything else. they is not found a floating seat cushion anywhere. and given the fact if it had plummeted the way altitude changes, plummeted in the ocean. it wo...

Everyone is happy, but, of course, the debt ceiling deadline still awaits and the president says hes not in the mood to negotiate. >> to repeat, the debt ceiling is raised to pay bills we have already approved. its not something which is a negotiating tool. its not lever language. >> now, lz, you heard the president, but republican congressman paul ryan says the republicans want something in exchange for raising the debt limit. now they have until february 7th, we should add. are we going to see...

Negotiating tool. its not leverage. its a responsibility of congress. its part of doing their job. i expect them to do their job. although im happy to talk to them about any of the issues they actually want to get done. so if congressman ryan is interested in tax reform, lets go. ive got some proposals on it. if he is interested in any issue out there, im willing to have a constructive conversation of the sort we just had in resolving the budget issues, but ive got to assume folks arent crazy en...

This was a bad recession. the financial sector, the housing sector, millions of americans lost their personal assets, their wealth. so its going to take time to recover. the question is are we going in the right direction versus, you know, being stuck in the past. we are moving in the right direction. we need more help from the private sector and i do believe with 44 months of consecutive job growth, the american people will begin to feel some of the strength of this economy. >> we could be in t...

Government. it raised some serious doubts in the minds of people around the world about our country. >> the presidents argument is he had to do something to end this practice of what he calls holding the government ransom and holding full faith and credit of the united states ransom. as someone that spent a lot of time in the oval office, do you think from a presidential point of view it sort of makes sense to maybe end this process of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool? >> if im weari...

Officer first. accused of being one of the key players in the attack. i heard he didnt see the assault. then we had later video surfacing where he punched out the back window of the suv. heather, where do the prosecutors go with that? >> they have charged him with gang assault, arthel. i think what will happen here when he testifies in front of the grand jury he will have to use the information he has as a negotiating tool to try to get immunity, the assault, the gang assault charge is a little ...

Example, they want to hold obama care, use that as a negotiating tool. so, i dont know that there is a lot. you know, i dont want to give people the sense that in this particular case, were just talking about this really narrow funding bill that just goes two months. and likewise, just getting congress to pass legislation to pay their bills when it comes to the debt ceiling. i dont know that theres a lot of negotiation for the president to do directly. hell continue to make the case to the ameri...

Mickey this is a very serious situation going on. moodys analytics chief told the budget senate committee this past tuesday, quoting him here, that shutting the government down for three or four weeks would do significant economic damage. what are you concerns about a partial government shutdown? >> the thing we can really do is just look back at whats happened at the past government shutdowns. al remind our viewers that the government has shut down 17 times in the last 38 years. so this isnt so...