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Insiders say d.c. is a hot mess. >> washington is dysfunctional, but in a dysfunctional way. members of congress and administration agree on too much. we agree on spending money we dont have, we agree on not oversighting the programs. we agree on continuing to spend money on programs that dont work. basically we agree on too much. >> senator richard blumenthal is a democrat from the state of connecticut. nice to have you with us. do you agree with senator coburn, dysfunctional in a dysfunctional...

Eyeing 2014, but you also have some senators like levin, who is not going to seek reelection. i think again there is this sense that there are enough republicans, enough democrats who want to put some skin in the game, who have in the past agreed to entitlement reforms, agreed to a fiddling with the tax code. i think you have enough. i think the sort of template is not only 2011, but also the fiscal cliff. you had some republicans break from party orthodoxy there, because they had a lot of press...

Afraid of. nuclear energy kill us. at the same time it powers our cities. we must adopt this technology throughout society to improve the way we give health care, we educate our children, that we get through town when theres a lot of traffic but at the same time we need to be very vigilant that we can actually see that we are in control of the data, that we are its master. the idea of precrime from "minority report" is a true problem we will face in which we have predictions making -- algorithms...

Gave the education secretary four pinochios for the phony claim. jim, the media has been pushing the doom and gloom theme all week. we heard about, lets see, obamageddon and barack-alypse. and friday came and went and the world is still turning. >> actually i think the white house had the template of the 1995-96 shutdown with gingrich and president clinton back then and they might have kind of gotten ahead of their skis in terms of pushing out arne duncan education secretary, and janet napolitan...

Template to live ones life. sometimes in difficult circumstances, hes asking all of us in the church and in particularly these cardinals, who now have an extremely, heavy burden, laid on them. to understand, like the gospel story of peter, walking on the water, across to the boat of jesus, peter walking from the boat to jesus, excuse me that you can do impossible things if you keep your eyes on the lord. once you start looking around, once you start looking at all of those waves, you start to si...

Mixing cuts in ord toer to avoid shutdown has been president obamas mantra. if they dont compromise on those issues are the republicans going to lose ground as the deadline nears? >> i dont think its going to be about losing ground. the bipartisan national debt commission laid out a very good template. it says we needed $2 of spending cuts for every dollar of closure of tax expenditures. i think thats the model. we need $4 trillion, debt reduction over the next decade to have sustainable debt to...

Additional 155df personnel and related equipment and facility upgrades $736 million. we are going to have periodic reviews by these teams i started, the defense state inner agency security assessment teams. we will start a high post review by the secretary, which has not happened before. we are going to strengthen the mutual security agreements between the state department and other government agencies when they are not co-located -fpblt we had a very good relationship with the annex in benghazi...

Brothers. and the question is will the republicans cut those strings and do what is right for the american people. will they say were in here to help -- to promote the common welfare. >> were going to talk more about this later on in this broadcast. but i want your take on this. what can be done on immigration reform? tell me where the republicans are going to move on this issue. >> well, i tell you. they -- i think were going to move forward, because i know people like luis gutierrez and others...

>> were going to talk more about this later on in this broadcast. but i want your take on this. what can be done on immigration reform? tell me where the republicans are going to move on this issue. >> well, i tell you. they -- i think were going to move forward, because i know people like luis gutierrez and others are absolutely committed. he tells me that theyre working as they can in a cooperative way. but, you know, he is hopeful. and if he is hopeful, im hopeful. >> historical importance of...

The president suggested at the first inauguration was to bring a certain arts and cultural insensitivity and expression to his presidency. as you have watched the first term, what has it felt like to you as it occur snd. >> its been thrilling. the inauguration was a template. different poetry, aretha franklin. the diversity of forms in which american excellence expresses itself. we have seen the wonderful concerts they have done at the white house. the paul simon singing stevie wonder songs, ton...