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Limits at a particular bank over the holidays. >> people who especially are waiting last-minute to buy the holiday gifts to go to the atm are going to the atm and saying uh-oh. >> thats me. just came from there. absolutely. uh-oh indeed. absolutely. so frankly, im not even done. lets be candid. ultimately, theyre going to have to figure out a way to safeguard this data, but the loser in this is the consumer. the consumer is going to be hit with spending limits. they may have their credit damaged...

65 senators participated this year. senators had to keep their gifts under $15 and, of course, in complete secrecy until the party on tuesday night. the gift giving reached across party lines with republican senator orrin hatch of utah presenting massachusetts senator elizabeth warren with doughnuts and coffee from the massachusetts-based dunkin donuts. hes supposed to give her something from utah. they reached across continental lines as arizona senator jeff flake gave hawaii senator a fake rat...

Republican side running scared, wolf. theyre running scared because theyre going to be primaried from the right. and youve got senators like hab senator graham, senator enzi, for example, even perhaps the leader of the republicans, mitch mcconnell although he hasnt declared one way or another, hes being primaried. theyre worried that this deal is not purely conservative enough because it does lift some of those automatic spending limits. and so its an easier vote for them to vote against it righ...

That chris christie was a lobbyist for the securities industry association when bernie madoff was the head of it. vetters worked at it he worked for bernie madoff trying to keep financial fraud out of the new jersey state consumer protection law. they had stuff about his brother in an s.e.c. settlement. they saw stuff about spending patterns that the federal inspector general had investigated him for that he had gone around the country and violated spending limits. much of that was in the public...

Sentiments. bill: whoa, whoa. >> hate speech. bill: no, listen were not throwing stuff out there to be low throwing out out there for sake of a debate. i want facts. where has the tea party -- >> when they say things, when they say things like obamas plan is white slavery. that is racist. that has been done at several protests. ive seen signs. it has mass media, go back to kenya. >> or when the tea party talks about president obama being an articulate black man. oh wait, that was democrats who s...

But theyre supposed to go back up again a year later. you could move some of that spending from a year later forward. in the aggregate, the spending would be the same, but the democrats would get a little more right now. thats going to create a lot of heartburn for the republicans, particularly mitch mcconnell from kentucky. >> facing a tough re-election. >> if you can finesse that some way, youve got a deal. >> let me ask you in the time we have left, is there a deal before thursday or not? >> ...

Election so businesses can invest and hire. the democrats would get that. with regard to the sequester, it is true that the spending levels are supposed to go down in january. but theyre supposed to go back up again a year later. you could move some of that spending from a year later forward. in the aggregate, the spending would be the same, but the democrats would get a little more right now. thats going to create a lot of heartburn for the republicans, particularly mitch mcconnell from kentuck...

Invest and hire. the democrats would get that. with regard to the sequester it is true that the spending levels are supposed to go down in january. but theyre supposed to go back up again a year later. you could move some of that spending from a year later forward. in the aggregate, the spending would be the same, but the democrats would get a little more right now. thats going to create a lot of heartburn for the republicans, particularly mitch mcconnell from kentucky. >> facing a tough re-elec...

Democrats to say were going to bust our spending limits, were going to do nothing about a bill -- obamacare -- that is costing us jobs and undermines peoples access to health care? that is not reasonable. >>brian: senator, it is going to be a fascinating week. were up against a deadline. every day is important. senator pat toomy, thanks so much for coming in and thanks for being in our new living room. you look very comfortable there. straight ahead, kids, are you too embarrassed to ask your par...

With the debt ceiling. a number of congressional republicans they wanted to impose conditions for raising the governments $16 trillion debt limit. some have insisted on spending limits. just when the treasury-secretary says, christy ill start with you. its simple. why not? >> heather, i dont know, this seems to be the opposite. we went through exactly this argument two years ago and republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling. it led to the unprecedented step of united states losing our aaa cr...