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I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy isis. This will require military, cyberand financial warfare as i laid out on my speech on Defeting Radical Islamic Terrorism several weeks ago. Instead of an apology tour, Which You Saw president obama give over and over again, i will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the cold war. On the democratic sid...

Today the membership page for the caucus is defunct. they havent met since july of 2012. will this make it easier for the president to get things done with the republicans with the weakening of the tea party? >> i think with or without the tea party hes got a better shot. the tea party oshriginated in 20 when folks talked about the toxic rhetoric. nobody has time for that anymore. that is not a policy or position. with or without the tea party that rhetoric is not going to work. >> you know, rya...

>> fox news alert, a new political firestorm is brewing in washington over a white house decision to cancel tours of the peoples house. brand new hour hereof "america live," welcome everyone, im megyn kelly. the administration announced the move saying it was designed to save money in the wake of the automatic budget changes that took effect last friday. and republican quickly reacting to the decision. in a tit for tat, an amendment to the house spending, to suspend funding for golf trips unless...

Christie, praising president obamas response to the storm. >> im the not going to worry-- chris did what he thought was best for the state and i lost the campaign. >> and romney says he has ideas to help the g.o.p. ap figuring out a way to get the word out to minority voters that republican policies can make their life better, harris. >> harris: also in that interview governor romney says the sequester peter just mentioned is a rare opportunity. as you probably know, the automatic budget cuts of...

It will be a slow unraveling that gives some air as we get to the end of the month to deal with the continuing resolution. i think there is some discussion, i think there is not a bad discussion, to take the appropriations that have been done already for 2013, tighten them up a little bit more. bring those forward and another continuing resolution, make that part of the closer for the 2013 budget. get that off the table because as you know, we do a cr, a continuing resolution well be funding thi...

The same talking points that the president presented a precise, specific, detailed plan to solve the sequester problem in a balanced fashion. but the president has never laid out such a measure. so we really dont know. i think the president has been content to this point in raising these concerns about the impact of the sequester. he was happy to have secretary of transportation ray lahood go out and say 5,000 air traffic controllers are going to have to be furloughed. the interior secretary sal...

Decision apparently by the administration, actually, its not by the administration. thats an important point. its actually by the department of homeland security to start releasing detained illegal immigrants. the move said to be in anticipation of looming federal budget cuts, more than 300 illegals in arizona have already been let go, and governor jan brewer there is not happy. >> this is just unexplainable, unbelievable, and its appalling. the bottom line is that what about the respect for the...

Alaska senator, mark begich. so, senator, are you the one? can you make this bridge happen, a compromise between both sides? >> i dont know if i can be the one but ill tell you there are folks like myself and i think that article really laid it out, the new guys dont look at past traditions or who said what to who 10 years ago or 15 years ago and still holding grudges were about trying to get stuff done. there is lot of chatter behind the scenes with folks on both sides. obviously a group of us ...

Its a dangerous and reckless policy to release potentially violent criminal offenders into the general population. jenna: we need more information on this, obviously, how many, who exactly is being released. we had karl rove join us at the top of the hour, and he said something that republicans should consider doing is giving the power to the president in sequestration to have some ownership to the cuts and how theyre made. right now as we just talked about the white house says, well, we dont ha...

"new york times" columnist paul krugman is not a fan of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester, and apparently bill clinton agrees. >> the debt problem canting solved right now by conventional austerity measures, and thats why paul krugman is right when he keeps talking about all these -- everybody thats tried austerity in a time of no growth has wound up cutting revenues even more than they cut spending because you just get into the downward spiral and drag the country back into reces...