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Default that could trigger a global financial crisis, thats serious stuff, and no congress had talked in a serious way about defaulting on the government debt, and there is something kind of contemptuous about the institution and about the very notion of paying back your debt to say that youre just simply not going to pay it back. >> david corn and ryan grim, thank you tonight, and david, congratulations once again on your book. >> thank you. >> still ahead, why the new gop plan for romney goes ...

With us on the series. you can check out their reporting by washington bureau chief ryan grim at the huffington post. >>he on the d.r. show, a scandalous mega panel. day 2 of those infamous hearings. do we need more or do we need less government when it comesço solving americas problems? >> and something very special for you today. baseball history right here in our studio. fenway park about to turn 100 years old. and we have more than $1 million in memorabilia before it goes up for auction. w...

Those forecasts, to clients for a serious amount of money. david stockton is another one who left for macroeconomic advisers. thats three folks who have been in those meetings, take that information they know about in the most powerful federal bank in the world, then go and set up a company that specializes in forecasting what the economy is going to do which is related to what the fed is going to do, and they make a killing off of it. so they have that information because they were in those mee...

Which seems pretty popular when someone leaves or retires. and on a more serious note, and this is the significant thing we can talk about, we did learn that almost three dozen folks who were in on these meetings at the federal crisis have leftshis and taken with them information that is off limits for you and me. and now these federal workers are working in the financial sector for big banks and investment firms with more information than you and i are entitled to have to this day. ryan grim is...

With less than a week to go until the iowa caucuses, ron paul continues to poll at or near the top of the field. this despite having to defend some controversial newsletters from years ago. paul has said racism is what lies at the heart of americas drug laws and those laws are designed to work against blacks, hispanics and asians claiming doctors wanted a monopoly on drugs and set about establishing one by criminalizing drugs after 1914. ryan grim is washington bureau chief for the washington po...

Those of you who didnt know, ryan wrote that book. what do you think? are they going to get any traction? >> i think they are. when you think about the medical marijuana fight, its kind of a lot like the gay marriage fight. we are still having a few skirmishes on it, but its essentially over. opponents are sort of like the japanese soldiers who are in the pacific islands still fighting world war ii in the 1980s. maybe we ought toç drop leafle and say look, just leave the pot heads alone. the c...

We were up 7 or 8% after yesterdays gain of nearly 500 points. its not too surprising that the market would cool off particularly since tomorrow there is a big jobs report that will come out and tell us how basically the economy fared in terms of job creation in the month of november. one of the reasons the market was up so much yesterday is that an early report on payrolls was favorable, indicating that people in the private sector were out hiring in november. its a little bit of a watch, wait,...

Committee to come up with something smarter, something more acceptable to both parties. but what if the automatically triggered cuts are not so automatic after all? joining me now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for "huffington post" who wrote about this today. ryan, thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> ryan, the title of your piece today, "super committees, cuts, anything but automatic." what did we miss here? how did they sneak by us? how are they going to get around the au...

Whatever you want to call them. what they were supposed to cut. so, you know, basically we have a lot of theater right now. >> yeah, on january 1st, at that point, the bush rates expire and you would raise $4 trillion over 10 years without anybody legislating anything. were going to do a lot more on this. ryan grim of "the huffington post." thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you. coming up, you heard it here last night and the president heard it less than an hour later. the p...