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>> yes. so what the debt ceiling is all about. basically congress has not done and congress and president has not done anything. i am not talking about anything. over the next 75 years, 70% of deficit spending is going to come from medicare programs alone, social security and medicare are the biggest part of the debt. the reason they are known as third rail of politics because if you touch them you are committing political suicide. george bush tried it and he was shut down. no lawmakers want to ...

About medicaid, medicare, what other-- >> im talking about, a lot of the aspects, i think, that not only medicare and medicaid, im talking about looking at obamacare, im talking about looking at potential tort reform that might take some of the high lawsuits out of the equation. >> take the sting out of malpractice. >> yes, with still protecting people. i think the pharmaceutical companies, i mean, you know, my daughter went to the hospital and she was there for 40 minutes to see if she had a ki...

Trumps tragaj mahal casino, an police didnt put out a description. here is why they held back. >> he had a very distinct jacket and it was so distinct that we were trying to keep the description of that jacket within law enforcement circles because it was our best lead. >> reporter: it was their best lead and then yesterday they spotted a man wearing the jacket and he also had the victims cell phone on him, they arrested him even though by the way that train wasnt coming down the tracks. the thi...

Has to be thanking her lucky stars she has her life. whats her condition? >> reporter: bumps and bruises, and he went after her neck and she tried to zip up her jacket and, hit her head when he threw her off the bench, but missed the third rail and able to get up on the other side and as we said, luckily, no train was coming. >> megyn: its like you have to think, i hate to say it, especially as a woman by yourself, about whether you should sit there alone in, you know, in underground station wit...

Of second amendment rights tightened up the meaning for suitable for sporting purposes so as to exclude from importing into the u.s. you could own it in the u.s. if you somehow got it. if youre a dealer here, couldnt bring it. if youre a seller in another country, couldnt sell it in the u.s. and guns determined to have purposes other than sporting. this is an example of an area of governmental authority where the president has discretion. president obama, and that was 1968 statute from the lbj y...

These areas where the big money is thats going to cripple us over the next 10 to 20 years. >> thats because its not politically popular in either base. lets remember both parties demagogued med compaicare in th decade, and because of it they conditioned their own political bases that is more of a third rail in american politics than social security. look what the the president -- the president made the -- nancy pelosi said -- the president made the decision it is easier to change politically and...

For action. not just a commission or a report or a debate or a national debate. there seems to be a stronger desire for lets find some concrete steps maybe that we can take right away. even if they make only a slight difference. maybe that will effect it it i also wonder if the politics of this might change. we are seen, you know, over the last few decades, gallup has shown support for gun control has fallen off pretty dramatically. you wonder if in the wake of this past election the democratic ...

And the unions are upset because the state wants to change things? i mean that is outrage just. they are that class will be bigger january 1st, 2013 when obamacare kicks in. that will become the new third rail of american politics. anybody who wants it stop it will be thrown out of office. ronald reagan will be seen as a villain if he ran in 2016. alisyn: talk about the government jobs that you just mentioned because there have been 621,000 government jobs created in just the past five months. b...

Raising income rates on everyone, and if he can blame that on republicans, this might be the way to get na started. >> im going to have to disagree on the politics of what james says, dan. i think the president cant let that alternative minimum tax hit because the pressure from his own party and from senators up for reelection in 2014, the democrats, would be enormous. >> i kind of agree, james, i think that would be an achilles heel for the democrats, the third rail as we say, they dont want to...

Over the cliff and some want to see that happen because then the crisis will generate the kind of bipartisan agreement we need but that is irresponsible. >>neil: it is looking more likely. then who picks up the pieces? >>guest: the country suffers. i dont think anyone gains politically. you know that almost everyone here in both parties will tell you if you talk to them privately, this ends with entitlement reform. not cutting programs like medicare but slowing down the growth in the programs be...