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Citizenship, you say path to citizenship, a lot of people hear -- youre hearing this full blown, all this amnesty, so we got to define the terms. >> amnesty is what ronald reagan was for when he signed the act in 1986. >> a lot has changed in the last 20 some years. we didnt address border security and control. >> george w. bush did not. he cut funding. >> either did bill clinton. and neither did bill clinton. this is the -- >> barack obama has more people, more federal personnel on the border t...

Entitlement reform is through a process where the senate and house ge get together. >> chris: but repeal of healthcare, i got to say it seems to me like the house republicans are running scared on their own plan. >> they already passed it. asmara said, they own it. it is their vote. they cant say we didnt make that vote. they already made the vote. you have to admit at some stage, political rial thait you you cant do it. >> chris: let me ask it a different way. are the house republican leaders t...

Entitlement reform is through a process where the senate and house ge get together. >> chris: but repeal of healthcare, i got to say it seems to me like the house republicans are running scared on their own plan. >> they already passed it. asmara said, they own it. it is their vote. they cant say we didnt make that vote. they already made the vote. you have to admit at some stage, political rial thait you you cant do it. >> chris: let me ask it a different way. are the house republican leaders t...

Is true the process where the senate and house get together through reconciliation... >> chris: the repeal of health care, i mean, i have to say, it seems to me like house republicans are running scared. >> as mara said, they own it and it is their vote and not as if -- they made the vote and the question is you have to admit at some stage, political reality, that you cant pass it and what do you do? you will have to say, all right. what can we get out of negotiation. >> chris: let me skit a dif...

Somebody like coburn talking about bringing in more revenue to the federal government, hes not going to take that step unit democrats meet him halfway. and go after these entitlement programs. thats something that in american politics has always been the third rail. you touch it, you die. it appears both sides realize now medicare, medicaid, social security will be touched. and thats happened in britain with the retirement age going up to 66, right? >> from my vantage point, britain is about a y...

That are being electrocuted? >> you definitely should not try to grab them. im glad it worked out the way that it did. i cant say that i was smart in this sort of situation. but it did definitely work out. >> well, it looks like you saved the guys life. so hats off to you, jeremy clifton. >> i think it says more about when a guy like me who is just an average guy does something like this, i think it says something about us all. that at the end of the day, we respect and we do care about each oth...

Reprieve. a pentagon investigation clearing him of any wrongdoing of an alleged drunken episode in paris where he freely criticized the u.s. it cost him as job as top commander in afghanistan. >> thank you. amazing rescue at an atlanta area subway station. take a look. the man in the red shirt lying flat on his back is being repeatedly shocked by the electric current from the third rail. he couldnt get up until that man, a complete stranger risked his own life and pulled him out into safety befo...

Right said dont do it. >> when you were looking down at this guy, you could see he was being shocked, right? some little electrical charges. >> yeah, well, he was shaking and convulsing and when he gets shocked in the video, you cant see it on that but theres sparks and he has black marks on him as well that might be burns or at least thats what i thought at the time. so i didnt know what was going on. >> well, when you -- you found out fast because as soon as you put your hand down there, what ...

Very, very important services. so i think that the debate is what we really need to focus on, as this thing moves forward, as we get past the 2011 budget, moving into the 2012 budget, to look at social security, medicare and medicaid, and other programs that right now are more of a drain than they are creating the kind of stability that i think the american people would want. >> well, on that, though, in terms of the politics here, moving into as you say the 2012 budget and 2012, which is a pres...

Have settled on medicare, social security, medicaid, privatizing medicare, is that going to be their issue? health reform was their big issue last year. is this it for the next year? >> well, i think to a certain degree it is, yeah. i think they are going to want to engage appropriately on this subject. you know, this third rail politics mindset only allows us to kick the can further down the road to whistle past the grave stop and all of those wonderful sayings and not deal with the problem. if...