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Comes out and says i want less money for police departments but theyre pointing out, folks, that crime is down. help us understand, hance nichols, is there a good sense of how this money is going to be spent if youre trying to make the case to the average american taxpayer this is why we need it and heres what its going to go for, whats the answer? >> readiness. in one word thats the answer from the pentagon. they feel they have serious readiness problems, not enough combat brigades. theyre actu...

Disappointed. that we havent found a new partner to find common ground. bill: you had 21 republican governors seven years ago, now you have 31. you have a republican majority in the house and senate. by this measure have the policies of this administration failed? >> if you take a look at what happened over the course of last year, we made a lot of progress. working with a republican majority in congress we reformed the no child left behind bill to make sure our kids arent being tested too much....

Sequester levels and i mean it cuts everything from w.i.c. to subsidies for amtrak, to health care for veterans. it hurts not only the very, very poor, but the middle class as well. it raises taxes on the average american by $2,000 and lowers taxes on the very wealthy by $200,000. so we dont expect him to walk back from that. but, he has seemed to be interested in having a conversation about ending poverty and we certainly agree on that. so we see this as a tremendous opportunity to talk to a po...

That was just loud. brian shakt man, in the show, we have interesting followups on the kenyan mall shooting courtesy of the new york city police department. we want to begin in washington, d.c. a budget deal has been reached between the senate and the house negotiators. so the called cease-fire on capitol hill buys lawmakers time to address the nations larger fiscal issues such as the tax code, health care and social security. paul ryan and patty murray brokered the deal which raises military an...

Divorced from it in his re-election. he wasnt running on that brand, on sarah palin. >> and i hate to bring reality to the table, but the fact of the matter is the republicans, a, didnt shut the government down. this was the democrats who decided, we want more money -- everything that sarah palin just said is exactly right. we are borrowing money -- >> the debt ceiling is not about money -- >> we are borrowing money. oh, okay. so -- the deficit -- come on, ron. the deficit has been shrinking >> ...

We articulate an agenda that isnt just reliant on pointing to the crazy guy next door and saying, im not that guy. >> this is how i was feeling at the point we were celebrating re-opening the government. i was like, excuse me, now were having a celebration that people are going to return to work and were going to return to sequester levels. and the notion that we cant even push past that, because they arent still driving the debate at the moment. >> and thats a complete shift, you know, at seton...

Deficit and easing the sequester. theres a deal to be made if both sides will approach it with willingness to engage in give and take. >> im curious how optimisticing that lawmakers will do the same because youre saying give and take, both sides have to give a little. >> well, remember, first of all, lets start with the things we agree on. we agree with a lot of the presidents entitlement reforms. we dont think we should have to pay for areas we agree by doing things like raising taxes. we dont ...

To get the extra revenue. i dont think either one those are the appropriate solutions. the presidents put enough entitlement reform on the table himself that we could find the savings on the nondiscretionary side and take care of a lot of those cuts. there are some revenue measures that the two sides might be able to agree on. so again, theres enough elements out there to avoid that, but if all else fails, what will happen is exactly what you outlined, well have government at sequester levels an...

Cant negotiate with people when their terms are completely unreasonable, and i think that republicans underestimated help. they thought he was going to cave or give up his position and he held firm and i think thats why we came to the conclusion that we did that is satisfactory for most democrats and i will say again, the sequester levels that democrats approve is nothing that anyone is happy about, but they understand the word compromise and that was their compromise and they werent going to do...

Relationship or maybe the lack of relationship he has with the president, i thought, was very telling. you know, weve heard about in this quite a bit in some places that have reported it, but to hear actually somebody say it, i think, is another thing. >> well, i think they should be saying it more often. you know, this was a very interesting interview that you had with boustany, bill. he was essentially saying that he thought that the democratic and republican leadership in the senate and the h...