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Teachers? text a for yes. text b for no to 622639. you can always go tower blog at ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment. we encourage you to do that. well bring you the results later on in the program. i am joined tonight by rhonda bromley, a spokesperson for the alpine school district in iet u utah and bill mcgee. he is a parent of four children in the alpine school district. great to have both of you with us tonight. i appreciate you contributing in the discussion, which is so very intense in this...

Pass rm, safe gun control in the state of new york. >> some governors just cant say it. this is a leadership moment for all people in elected office in this country. we are at a crossroads. which way do we turn? its no time to change the conversation and start picking on the first amendment and say, well, its the entertainment industry. the entertainment industry has been around for a long, long time. governor christie, its the guns. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonig...

Rifle. no one needs ten bullets to kill a deer. and too many innocent people have died already. end the madness now. pass rm, safe gun control in the state of new york. >> some governors just cant say it. this is a leadership moment for all people in elected office in this country. we are at a crossroads. which way do we turn? its no time to change the conversation and start picking on the first amendment and say, well, its the entertainment industry. the entertainment industry has been around f...

41. this should be a slam-dunk. in fact, you could easily make the argument that this is one of the best selections ever when it comes to qualifications for secretary of defense. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question are, the republicans opposing chuck hagel for partisan political reasons? text a for yes. text b for now to 622639. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. well bring you results later on in the show. joining me now is joe sestak, former t...

Need to speak up and be active. republicans are baiting president obama into a negotiation on entitlement reform. before he gives them what they want, he should listen to another republican. >> social security has nothing to do with the deficit. social security is totally funded by the payroll tax leveed on employer and employee. if you reduce the outgo of social security, that money would not go into the general fund to reduce the deficit. it would go into the social security trust fund. so soc...

American people either. democrats and progressives who want to maintain the big three need to speak up and be active. republicans are baiting president obama into a negotiation on entitlement reform. before he gives them what they want, he should listen to another republican. >> social security has nothing to do with the deficit. social security is totally funded by the payroll tax leveed on employer and employee. if you reduce the outgo of social security, that money would not go into the gener...

Fight on capitol hill. democrats and progressives, they know this fight. they did it well in the 2012 campaign. they fought hard during the fiscal cliff fight and won that. clearly. this is basically the start of a new campaign. if you dont stay focused, if we dont stay focused, if we dont make sure that everybody in this country knows exactly what the republicans are up to, who knows where were going to go. theyre after the big three. thats what they want. you can fight for the big three. but y...

Since 2001, the middle income tier has shrunk by 5%. the net worth of middle class families is down 28%. hold it right there. think about where have your health care costs gone in the last ten years. gasoline ten years ago was a buck 40 a gallon. where is it now? well over 3. would you like to have a buck 40 a gallon? the economy has changed a lot. whether there had been the bush tax cuts or not, this president would have been on the front lines saying we need to give relief to the middle class,...

On spending cuts president obama proposed $1.2 trillion, about equal to what he was asking in revenue. boehner passed draconian spending cuts in the house with no revenue component. on extended unemployment insurance, another check for the president. nada for boehner. on the debt limit president obama proposed a structure similar to what republican leader mitch mcconnell proposed last year. boehner wants to hold the nations full faith and credit hostage once again to attain even more spending cu...

Cuts could be modified in the first month or two of 2013. in fact, the defense department, the irs and other government agencies are planning no immediate changes because theyre anticipating some kind of deal. that leaves the unemployed, extended unemployment insurance will expire immediately if we go over the cliff. a deal later in january could theoretically restore extended benefits, the immediate damage will have already been done. for many people, this is all an interesting charade. but for...