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Neighborhood now a ghost town. >> local residents and state officials raised heck about exxon forcing these residents back into a neighborhood that apparently nobody there deemed safe. exxon did reverse course. they said, okay, they no longer plan to cut off housing aid for those residents as of this weekend. they said they will continue to pay up though its not yet clear for how long. exxon said since the spill, they, quote, honor all valid claims. if you ask me, i think the "arkansas times" sh...

That politics have consequences and the consequences in texas right now is that 1.5 million poor people have not going to get free health insurance that theyre really entitled to and whats worse, all the people of texas are going to pay for this free health care through their federal taxes but because ideology is trumping all, the texas legislature supported by rick perry has said were not going to allow these 1.5 million individuals to get free health care through 2016 and then the state contri...

And the obama agenda has largely been stalled since then. and thats what were living with right now. so the real question for this coalition -- i mean, there are two questions. will it ever show up again? secondly, will it show up in those midterm elections when the legislative branch is chosen? >> probably not. i mean, history shows that they havent shown up. you had women in 2010 pretty much reverse course, and they backed obama greatly in 2008, backed republicans to a greater extent in 2010. ...

America, a huge step forward in the government gets out of the way. >>steve: heres why they will. the elections over. suddenly keystone looks okay. fracking not so bad. >> environmentalists are going to go crazy. they will oppose this big time with everything theyve got. the question is, will the president for the first time reverse course on a major policy issue? >>brian: those people who are progreen energy are not necessarily natural gas because it burns clean? >> america reduced its carbon e...

>> gregg: our trade deficit is down for four straight months and that means exports are growing. that is break for us. >> we have been importing less oil. >> gregg: consumer confidence is up, rising consumer demand. you see good signs for the u.s. economy? >> i think there are good signs but its hard to know. we have to look at january, a lot of that could be seasonal in terms of unemployment and we have to wait until after christmas to get a real sense of what is going to happen. >> gregg: empl...

Two decades, and really the most important issues in the world, nuclear proliferation and terrorism, but things have only gotten worse on both fronts so it really hasnt gotten us anywhere, and thats why im questioning the relationship with pakistan because in many ways it inhibits our ability to deal with these important issues because were trying to engage islamabad so it hasnt worked, and we need to sort of reverse course and try something that has the hope of actually achieving better results...

Weve been doing this for over the course of more than two decades on really the most important issues in the world, proliferation, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism. but things have only gotten worse on both fronts. so it really hasnt gotten us anywhere. and thats why im questioning our relationship with pakistan because in many ways it sort of inhibits our ability to deal with these important issues because were trying to engage with islamabad. so it hasnt worked. and we need to sort of reve...

Meddlesome style and some people said he had become much more mellow. who was the george steinbrenner that you knew? >> the one that we were used to was the leader of the yankees who was willing at a moments notice reverse course and fire a manager, as he did, you know, more than 20 times in 22 years. quite often that person being the volatile billy martin and this man who was restless and had that kind of football mentality of needing to win every single game when baseball teaches you those les...

Dont want to cut spending, so what gives? >> what gives is the market is going to say in the economys subpar performances, were going to get growth but not what brings unemployment back to 4 percent as we had a decade ago. so reality of events just as happened in the late 1970s when things just got worse and worse, the american people set enough, you see a good example of it in new jersey where the new governor there has proposed a dramatic spending cut, the legislature is up in arms about it bu...

Completely without oversight. why did the president reverse course on this chinese telecom zte? was it because of reports china was going to invest 500 million in a trump branded property? is u.s. policy basically for sale in indonesia or in the middle east or through jared kushner? there are a great many serious allegations of impropriety. and chris, all you need to know about the current gop congresss unwillingness, complete abdication of any oversight responsibility, you can tell from a singl...