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Cutting the debt. you, i assume, are not doing all this as an intellectual exercise. you would actually like to get reform accomplished. theres the question of how much damage newt gingrich has done, former speaker of the house, presidential candidate. he was in iowa and was confronted by a voter, and i want to play a portion of that and get your response to it. >> what you just did to paul ryan is unforgivable. >> i didnt do anything to paul ryan. >> yes, you did. you undercut him and his allie...

And weve seen nothing of the like from the president and the senate democrats. >> heres the problem. according to our polling, nearly eight in ten americans do not want to cut spending for medicare, even in the name of cutting the debt. you, i assume, are not doing all this as an intellectual exercise. you would actually like to get reform accomplished. theres the question of how much damage newt gingrich has done, former speaker of the house, presidential candidate. he was in iowa and was confr...

We need to do our share. thats where democrats will be coming from. we totally agree there need to be cuts. how and where we do it is where there is a disagreement. >> will that $200,000 cut be something you will agree to? >> im not a policy maker, but to karens point and everyones point if people are doing better than the average person out there they should be able to pay more in taxes. no question about it. >> youre saying we have to. we owe a lot of money. we have to change the way we have o...

And its also the most slow-moving. you can turn technology on a dime and look at new targets. to turn human intelligence on a dime is very difficult because youve got to develop sources. that i think is whats going on now. >> and so that would give you some pause as a policy maker to make quick decisions, when your information is perhaps especially at the beginning not so reliable. >> well, i mean, lifes hard. its never -- intelligence is never perfect. theres always judgment involved. and thats...

Yesterday for stephanie osullivan, the cia leader who will be promoted up if shes confirmed to be the number two intelligence figure in the united states. she was questioned hard by ron wid widen, dianne feinstein. let me play a little bit for you. >> the question i asked was when did the intelligence community first alert the president and policy-maker that is protesters were likely to threaten president mubaraks hold on power. >> we have warned of instability. we didnt know what the triggering...

Tax cuts were just a twinkle in some republican policy makers eye during the clinton administration, people making more than a million bucks a year were doing just fine. and remember how fine rich people were doing in the go-go 90s? i dont think i knew any personally, but they appeared to be doing very well. yesterday a nonpartisan analysis requested by the house ways and means committee indicated that the republican plan to extend the bush tax cuts in full to everybody, even the richest america...

Need those tax cuts to stay in order to stay afloat in this fragile economy. democrats in the white house have said they plan to keep all of the bush tax cuts in place, except for those in the top tax bracket, for who the u.s. income tax rate would rise from 35% to 39.5%. whats the horrible, terrible impact of that going to be? "taxpayers with income of more than $1 million for 2011 would still receive on average a tax cut of about $6,300 compared to what they would have paid in rates in effect ...

Surround themselves with staffs that has expertise. i dont think its relevant whether or not justice scalia knows what a text message is. what is important and relevant is that in congress, were updating the laws to meet the technology that were capable of utilizing today so that we can ensure when the supreme court does have to rule, that the law is applicable to the facts and thats what i think is important, but, you know, any policy maker or a justice on the supreme court isnt going to know e...

Left. deutsche is favored, after he raised $1.5 million and dominated the air. >> i support president obama agenda. >> reporter: conservative businessman and two-time nominee ed lynch raised $100,000 in the democratic area. >> america is broke, washington is broken and the government cant fix it. >> reporter: there is a no party candidate who has little cash and little interest. democrats are outnumbering republicans two to one. independent and smaller parties total 25%. district has one of the ...

Left. deutsche is favored, after he raised $1.5 million and dominated the air. >> i support president obama agenda. >> reporter: conservative businessman and two-time nominee ed lynch raised $100,000 in the democratic area. >> america is broke, washington is broken and the government cant fix it. >> reporter: there is a no party candidate who has little cash and little interest. democrats are outnumbering republicans two to one. independent and smaller parties total 25%. district has one of the ...