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Others. they heard a lot of discontent from democratic senators about the white house, specifically about president obama, familiar complaint from congressional democrats that hes above the fray, that theres not a consistent message. schumer was supposed to be the message guy. well get all senate democrats on a consistent theme. theyve been all over the map, in fact, on what the strategy should be regarding republican proposed budget cuts. they feel theyre not getting the air cover from presiden...

Malloy is facing a tough sell in his effort to raise taxes. hes crisscrossing the state talking about the shared sacrifice. lets go to willie and politico. >> we look at the playbook. we go to editor in chief, mr. john harris. he tapped schumer to be his right-hand man. two months in, i guess theyre running into a little trouble, arent they? >> its turned out to be a much harder assignment for senator schumer than a lost us expected. this came to the surface yesterday. there was a lunch with d...

Appalling and abysmal and a sad reflection on the people that the electorate has set up to do their business. so weve got to make a stand. theres a confrontation thats coming as far as the budget for fiscal year 2011 and the sooner we get to it, the better. >> we have to look at the extension. steny hoyer says if we dont get an agreement at least in principle to start drawing it up by the end of this week, theres no way were going to reach the deadline on any type of agreement by the 18th. which...

But the math is true. harry reid doesnt have enough membership in the senate to block or fundamentally change the house version of the bill. so the reality is that the democrats can either vote on the house version or allow a government shutdown. >> gregg: a couple of days ago senator chuck schumer took a swipe at the 87 freshmen republicans, kind of scolding them, suggesting theyre too young to remember the 1995 shut down that hurt the gop. but i got to tell you, i took a look at a recent gallu...

Former speaker pelosi come out and say if theres going to be a shutdown it will be the republicans fault and schumer followed suit, then what you had, interestingly, yesterday was senator reid floated the idea of maybe what we want is a short term continuing resolution to keep things going while we keep talking. to me it signaled it was either the white house or harry reid who realized its actually the democrats that might end up with the blame when it comes to this government shutdown. bill: so...

Capitol hill to keep the health care law intact. carl cameron live in our washington bureau across from the capitol with the latest. the democrats swore this vote would never happen. whats changed? >> hi, jon. well, nothing has really changed but the republican minority is using procedural rules to bring up the health care appeal as amendment to completely unrelated bill. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell introduced as amendment to the f.a.a. authorization currently being debated on the s...

Next? >> speaking of things that will haunt us for generations, snooki. >> oh, my gosh. i know. >> yesterday we got paparazzi video. she ran into her united states senator. >> oh, dear. >> at the airport in d.c. >> did she recognize him? >> ill show you what happens when snooki and schumer bump into each other. ho meowners , rates have been going up, but you can still refinance to a fixed rate as low as 4.5% at lendingtree.com, where customers save an average of $293 a month. call lendingtree to...

Ammunition clips like the one used to fire 31 bullets in the tucson massacre. earlier today senator frank lautenberg introduced the same bill in the senate with nine co-sponsors, senators boxer, durbin, feinstein, franken, kerry, levin, menendez, reid and schumer. joining me now congresswoman mccarthy. congresswoman mccarthy, is there any indication whether the president will address this issue in his speech? if they are going to nod your way they sometimes let you know late in the afternoon to ...

The size of government has doubled in the last ten years. that may be true, but what i wish someone would point out to senator tom coburn is if thats the case, then someone explain to me how under the last ten years barack obama was only president two of them and george bush doubled the size of government because i dont understand why after 9:00 p.m. tonight they will run around and bash but before that its a rodney king moment. >> is this a load of crap? >> everyone has to remember their manner...

Schumer sharing an armrest with oklahoma conservative senator tom coburn. >> and i think if coburn and schumer can sit next to each other, then probably just about everybody can. >> reporter: the southwest soul mates, arizonas john mccain and new mexicos tom udall. cutest couple might go to south dakota republican john thune and kirstin gillibrand. its taken on a prom feel as we saw with senators hutchison and conrad. on "this week with christiane amanpour." 6 >> kay, im available. >> have you p...