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Economic, humanitarian and intelligence, contingent upon them cooperating with us in this effort. the pakistani nukes get in the hands of the islamists, if tehran gets the nuclear weapon they are trying to build, we are in trouble if we dont have the bases on either side of iran. >> sean: if we are not in trouble, israel will be in trouble first. this concerns me about the rift if you will,, that has existed with our relationship with israel since president obama took office. >> it ought to be c...

Issues including one that came up late in the game, they wanted to ease restrictions on mountaintop mining. so kind of a curious thing there. >> you and certainly the president and a lot of democrats have talk about how a shutdown would be so consequential and detrimental to the economic recovery. so my question to you is, why do democrats not support what republicans have offered in the house to continue funding the government for one week so that the sides can continue to negotiate? >> well, t...

Numbers. you cant do it. so why do republicans get distracted by these side issues? thats not where americans live. mike barnicle has said it for the past year and a half. its jobs, jobs, jobs and i agree with chuck. any time they get off of that, they should be sued for political malpractice. >> the door is open for them. thanks, chuck. well see you later. >> thank you. >> still ahead, overnight breaking news, a massive attack in iraq as u.s. troops begin to pull out. the very latest after the ...

More clarity on the issue? does that give them a little more, where if theyre not in washington, theyre not as hypersectionive to all the criticism? or are they getting all these frantic phone calls from camps around the country? look, i guess this does have the feel of something, are we really going to be just talking about it in september and october? and by the way, if we are, isnt that bad news for republicans, because were not talking about the economy? >> yeah. >> if the republicans are ta...

Are more interested in their own lives and the future of the country than they are in these side issues. but these kinds of things tend to follow the clinton and theyre very practiced at dealing with them. im sure as karen suggests, they know how to deal with this. >> sam isnt there sort of a danger in being too practiced or polished in this particular moment? >> yes and no. i think its easy to deflect when youre capable of deflecting. the danger that i can see is that an information void will e...

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Uphold or overturn president obamas order? >> hey, tripp, its christie campbell. im going to go ahead -- these questions should be specific to the topic of this call. but were happy to follow up, again offline. >> that conference call was about the economy and obviously people were asking about immigration and holder. but it seems there is a distraction here from the central message of the economy. >> yeah, and, of course, today mitt romney is going to be speaking at nalao, the national associat...

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Where do you stand on this? >> look. running the federal government one week at a time is incredibly wasteful. you cannot make contractual commitments that make any sense on that basis, you cannot run a major enterprise, you cannot run the defense department. can you not run health and human services. you cannot run the major agencies of the federal government on a one-week basis. this is too big an enterprise. it is hugely wasteful. at some point its got to stop. but, if you say to me, look, on...