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Considered seriously by the president. jeff zeleny, i want you to stand by. lets bring in our panel and get some analysis. samantha vinograd, you used to work on the national security council during the obama administration. john bolton, very well known. hes a fox news contributor. hes a hardliner when it comes to north korea, when it comes to iran. im a little surprised, only a little surprised, because he was a major supporter of the war against iraq and back in 2003, and of course, the first ...

Short. we were close, but not quite there. on your other issues, this bill would have made what we call phase two much, much better. nevertheless, i think there are some things that the secretary of hhs can do to try and sort of stabilize things, but really we needed this bill to make it better. for instance, risk pools, we believe the smarter way to help people with preexisting conditions get affordable coverage while bringing down the health care costs for everybody else is through reinsurance...

Seven years and we came a little short. we were close but not quite there. on the other issues, this bill would have made, what we call phase two, much, much better. nevertheless, i think there are some things that the secretary of hhs can go to try to stabilize things. but really, we needed this bill to make it better. for instance, risk pools. we believe the smarter way to help people with pre-existing conditions get affordable coverage while bringing down the health care costs for everybody e...

Ambition. we were close. this bill would have made what we call phase 2 much better. nevertheless, theres some things that the secretary of hhs can do to try to stabilize things. really we needed this bill to make it better. for instance, risk pools. we believe the smarter way to help people with pre-existing conditions get affordable coverage while bringing down the healthcare costs for everybody else is through a reinsurance risk or risk sharing pools which this bill supplied for the states. t...

a meaningful handle on the deficits and the debt. now comes of course the federal reserve. we have ben bernanke here, which has used every tool in its box to keep credit flowing and interest rates low in the wake of the great recession. at 2:15 eastern, a little over an hour from now, the fed will tell us what if anything it plans to do in the wake of the downgrade, the debt snafu, the european debt snafu and the global stock freak-outs. in the meantime, i want to bring in richard ques...

we have breaking news youll be following and other stuffs. >> thanks so much. see you over the weekend as well. breaking news from studio 7. im fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. two explosions have rocked central oslo in the last hour wounding at least eight people. reports from norway say govrt buildings were targeted, one houses the prime ministers office and most of the windows were blown out. reuters reports a mangled car outside one building suggesting a possible car bo...

House is, weve raised up a little bit of our credit card debt and you just say, im not paying the bill. >> youre going to prioritize your mortgage payments and not pay anything else. people say we can pay the interest and well be fine. we have revenue to pay the interest, but were not going to have enough revenue to come in and pay a lot of our non-discretionary spending. >> mark is a friend of our show. mark, are there those who say raising the debt ceiling is not a policy tool but what do you ...

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To address it. the reason i say that is theres a disconnect here, a policy disconnect. north korea is able to advance its capability pretty quickly. that train moves pretty quick. the policy tool we have for stopping that has been mostly sanctions. it takes a long time. and while were waiting for more sanctions to be enforced, they keep working on their missiles. at some point the parties are going to have to come to the table but i think it may reenhance the bargaining situation. >> if you read...