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Taxes and regulations and that is bad publicity. and that is the trayvon martin fallout, in the core of the stand your ground laws, 26 states have them still, partly due to alecs influence. when alec got caught in that, that in turn caused a problem. >> this is a key part in how theyre intending to win corporations back, do you think the sort of restructuring theyre describing could allow them to be anonymous. >> it is partly the anonymity. now, if you get two people in the room, one is the stat...

Im martha maccallum. its also an important day as we remember 50 years since the assassination of john f. kennedy. there is a live look at the eternal flame at the arlington national cemetery. a significant day in the life of our nation and well remember it. bill: top republican leaders are furious. they say this is an effort to distract americans from the obamacare debacle. >> millions of americans are hurting because of a law washington democrats forced upon them. what do they do about it? coo...

Things done here on capitol hill when you talk about the budget, the debt, and other major topics, and people are wondering what the impact will be as we deal with those topics in the coming months. the nuclear option is known for that because it essentially blows up the place as it is known to operate. this comes as the senate is working on the nomination of janet yellen to lead the feds. he nomination paced out so she is on the path to being confirmed by the overall senate. today a leading rep...

And you know, they just broke the senate rules in order to exercise the power grab. so i would sum it up it is a sad day in the history of the senate and after today, advise and consent probably means to them 100 means 100 percent consent. it is how common the rejection of nominees is in the past. it will be an eye-opener for you. nthanks, mitch. in my view, this is most important and most dangerous restructuring of senate rules since thomas jefferson wrote them in the beginning of our country. ...

Broke the senate rules in order to exercise the power grab. so i would sum it up by saying its a sad day in the history of the senate. after today, advise and consent probably means to them 100% consent. senator dander will give you the statistics on how common a rejection of nominees has been in the past because i think it will be an eye opener for you. lamar? >> thanks, mitch. in my view, this is the most important and most dangerous restructuring of senate rules since jefferson wrote them at ...

Senate. >> in my view, this is the most important and most dangerous restructuring of senate rules since thomas jefferson wrote them. >> well, todays move comes after senate republicans blocked three consecutive nominees to the d.c. circuit court of appeals. the second most important court in the country after the supreme court. let me bring in now connecticut senator richard blumenthal. sir, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> the president speaking a short time ago, reacting to t...

Fed pouring all this cheap money into the market, but if they ever do the right thing and turn those spigots off, the markets going to come crashing back down. >> how far down do you think it would come crashing, back to where we started the year at, 13,000? >> we will go a lot lower than that if the fed moves away the monetary props. the problem for the economy is what the fed is doing to goose the stock market and the housing market is actually hurting the real economy. its preventing it from ...

>> utter devastation when our people first got there. the streets are full of debris, the ships are gone, the harbors have been damaged, people have lost their homes. the airport is damaged. it is utter devastation and people are really desperate. and what we are doing as the world food program is, we are on one side bringing food relief to the world, but were also the logistics arms of the united nations, so we help support the whole international community in their aid effort. were working ver...

Will help in structuring aid this time? >> yeah, i think to me, the most vivid memory of the tsunami, which we see the pictures, is nowadays, you see how houses have been swept away, and often the only thing thats left are the kitchen floors, the tiles. nothing else is there. where families, you know, had spent their days together, now everything is gone. and i think that is to me the horrible memory of when i look and compare. i think weve learned huge lessons of how we coordinate, how we opera...

Everything in this kind of situation. when nature strikes like this, the world really has to come together and i think thats what is happening now. >> i know you were involved personally with some of the relief efforts after the tsunami. when you look at the scale, and specifically at the type of devastation this is, are there lessons learned from the experience of the tsunami that will help in structuring aid this time? >> yeah, i think to me, the most vivid memory of the tsunami, which we see ...