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police firing tear gas to try to discourage occupy oakland. the police say they cracked down after the protesters threw paint and rocks at them. at the same time this was going on, atlanta police moved in on the wall street protesters camped in a downtown park. there were more than 100 arrests last night combined in both oakland and atlanta. and rescuers pulled two more people out of collapsed buildings in eastern turkey today. the number of people killed in sundays powerful earthqua...

Necessary. thats impossible to estimate, but will surely add to the cost which brought some "i told you so" from republicans. >> the healthcare bill is now expected to cost $115 billion more than the administration said it would. wiping out every saving they claim it would produce. >> reporter: the first cost was $938 billion for mandatory spending to reduce the deficit by $143 billion, though it included some unrelated savings in student loan programs. though that will not change, the discretio...

>> time nor now for our hits and misses of the weekment dan, first you. >> on tuesday president obama signed the legislation allowing the department of education to take over the student loan programs and on tuesday when they went into the departments website they got an error message because the website was down suggesting that the government is too big to work. now, youve got to worry, if the chinese can hack into the pentagons most secret weapons programs, how hard is it going to be for an mi...

>> time nor now for our hits and misses of the weekment dan, first you. >> on tuesday president obama signed the legislation allowing the department of education to take over the student loan programs and on tuesday when they went into the departments website they got an error message because the website was down suggesting that the government is too big to work. now, youve got to worry, if the chinese can hack into the pentagons most secret weapons programs, how hard is it going to be for an mi...

To your question was an answer about the process and what took place on capitol hill, didnt get to the merits of what the issue was with the student loan programs. the bottom line is that i think that the way the system was before, and i think of americans would agree, is that the banks gave these loans out on the backs of american students, and this now by removing the middle man will streamline the process and get the loans to where they need to get. so i dont think anyone is shedding any tear...

Put the legislation together, exempted themselves at least as we understand it. sean, the fact is, the bill is passed. what we are doing here today is somewhat of a sideshow. although it does include new power grab to take over the student loan programs. put 2,000 small businesses out of business and probe ably 30,000 people lose their jobs so the government can take it over and use heavy interest rates to help pay for health care bill. this has been the most dishonest and corrupt process ive se...

Youre -- >> we gave you both. so i dont want to hear whining you cant figure this out. [ laughter ] >> see, youre not answering me. >> youre asking me -- one other thing, theyve embedded the student loan programs, the pell program, in the middle of it. >> neil: i knew that was going to be in there. im going to go back to you again and again. thank you very much, god knows what else is in there. >> student loan thing is in there. >> neil: whats really behind the president delaying the trip? becau...

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Final hours and the threat of a slowing economy and higher taxes on middle income folks to try and get this leverage for bigger tax breaks for wealthy people. the more you provide tax breaks to folks at the top, the more the overall burden of dealing with our deficit, which we have to do over a long period of time, the more that burden will fall on the middle class, the more it will fall on seniors, the more it will mean less opportunities for our kids to go to college through student loan progr...