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Increase taxes on wealthier individuals in order to cut benefits for wealthier people doesnt make a lo the of sense. so its an example of where the administration could say to democrats, you know what, this one makes sense. its in my budget. im going to give you political cover on it. lets make progress together. it doesnt solve the whole debt problem but it begins to take us down the road towards not leaving our kids and grandkids this unconscienable debt. what if we made progress on something,...

To the sage of omaha and have a conversation with mr. buffett, who really understands finance and obviously the good doctor doesnt have a clue what national, international finances are all about. he is absolutely dead wrong. this is a major crisis. if the united states were to default, it is a default crisis of unknown proportions, because never in the history of this country has the united states not been able to pay. and, by the way, these are debts, these are obligations that are racked up by...

Put to george w. bush, look at his budgeting process. the war is off budget, medicare, the tax cuts, all of those things, but you can make the case, and i said this to a georgetown university class just last year, you can make the case that george w. bush was one of the best conservative presidents the country had in terms of generational push. he put two people on the supreme court that delivered citizens united to us that were dealing with to this very day in this election cycle. the bushes ha...

Think, is in large part just gone. you talk about -- people dont talk about the war in the news media. >> even more dangerous, i dont think the american people have a clue about the real cost of the war because we do so much off-budget, its incredible the cost of the war. >> the emergency supplements, as if it was a constant shock every six months were at a war we have no plans to get out of. the obama administration has changed that. current administration is cognizant of the ideas that i write...

To fork out another $5.5 billion to stay afloat because we tell you you have to fund your retirement and pension for the next 75 years just to make sure you guys know what the hell youre doing. what business in america gets nailed like this by the congress? now, keep in mind what was happening in 2006? well, we had the wars going on, and they were off-budget, werent they? you see, the republicans, they didnt want to pay for the wars, but they wanted to stick it to the postal service positive mak...

To stay afloat because we tell you you have to fund your retirement and pension for the next 75 years just to make sure you guys know what the hell youre doing. what business in america gets nailed like this by the congress? now, keep in mind what was happening in 2006? well, we had the wars going on, and they were off-budget, werent they? you see, the republicans, they didnt want to pay for the wars, but they wanted to stick it to the postal service positive make sure their funded 75 years out ...

Hill. there are a lot of questions. >> reporter: kathleen satisfactory bill just testified before a house commission and made an admission that has contributed to republican outrage. today as the u.s. senate prepares for two big votes on the continuing resolution, the short term stopgap measure to fund the government for the west rest of the year they are angry about those numbers too. the president and democrats have said that they would propose a $6.5 billion butt to current evidence as a coun...

Likely is gitmo for 50 grand and is that the scenario that is developing. >> i think so and that is exactly the right question. and i think when you see them, there is so little political will on behalf of lawmakers to back the administrations initial plan, you have to wonderer how long the administration is going to stand by its plans and in an election year ask democrats to stand up and support this when clearly the country thinks it is unpopular and majority of the country thinks it is unsafe...

Bill: you mentioned belize, and there are certain parts of that country, it is pretty tough going and other parts, it is -- caribbean resort-like and are you prepared for what you might see in parts of port-au-prince? and what is your expectation? >> bill, i dont think there is really any way that anybody can totally prepare themselves for what to experience when you get there. i think you have an idea in your head of what you see, on the headlines, and, you read in the papers, but, really, you ...

Program and an interesting report by neil barosky it is. and congressman issa, good to have you with us, welcome. >> thanks for having me on more before we have to look at those large dollars, off budget and the fact they are not effective but they are being spent. martha: we played a little bit of what he had to say and i want to look at one piece of an interview that he did, on fox business network and lets play that and get your thoughts on it. >> you had experience with the columbian drug lo...