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His or herself. when do you start defending yourself? >> she did defend herself. she made a statement last week and she did go meet with them. i think at this point, she should go about her business and answer questions. but she should let other people speak up for her. >> thank you, joan walsh. theres a lot more coming up in the next half hour of "the ed show." americans believe congress is broken. the only ones who disagree are mitch mcconnell and republicans in congress. >> harry reid mov...

0 and easy to consume. recent comments from david plouffe as well as lawmakers left the presidents strategy open to interpretation. progressives were concerned the social safety net programs were on the chopping block, but today democrats were unified in their approach. they are all on the same page. the president was reluctant to agree to a deal cutting medicare and medicaid benefits. president obama is seeking $1.6 trillion in additional revenue over ten years and $340 billion in health care s...

0 we need more members of congress to sound like that. if the president is trying to achieve solidarity on raising the top tax rate, these are the voices that can come through for them with that message in a big way. an owner of an automobile supply company says she supports the plan even if it means her own personal rates will go up. >> i would have higher tax rates, but more important and more crucial, the middle class would be spending about $3,000 more. >> harry reid kept the focus on the pr...

0 long-term viability of medicare and medicaid but those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff. democrats are prepared to discuss reforms to medicare and medicaid, but not right now. fox news tried to get budget committee chair member congressman chris van hollen to agree to the changes. van hollen stood firm. >> if you prolong the program, people are living longer, isnt that age outvoted? >> there are a lot better ways to have doing it? >> youre not willing to cha...

Fox has devoted countless hours of air time to the benghazi story booking guests to pedal the conspiracy theories. but today something rare happened. fox news invited journalist thomas ricks to share his thoughts about the whole thing. he reports the truth for a living. so needless to say his interview was cut short. >> senator john mccain said he would block any attempt to nominate susan rice to become secretary of state. shes currently the u.n. ambassador. he seems to be backing away from that...

Already being pushed on fox news. fox has devoted countless hours of air time to the benghazi skoir booking guests to pedal the conspiracy theories. but today something rare happened. fox news invited journalist thomas ricks to share his thoughts about the whole thing. he reports the truth for a living. so needless to say his interview was cut short. >> senator john mccain said he would block any attempt to nominate susan rice to become secretary of state. shes currently the u.n. ambassador. he ...

>> no. nobody does because nobody cared. we know that several hundred died, but there was never an official count done of security contractors in iraq. so when i see this focus on what was essentially a small fire fight, i have covered a lot of fire fights. its impossible to figure out what happens in them sometimes. and second, i think that the emphasis on benghazi has been political partly because fox was operating as a wing of the republican party. >> all right. tom ricks, thank you for joini...

Died in iraq? do you know? >> i dont. >> no. nobody does because nobody cared. we know that several hundred died, but there was never an official count done of security contractors in iraq. so when i see this focus on what was essentially a small fire fight, i have covered a lot of fire fights. its impossible to figure out what happens in them sometimes. and second, i think that the emphasis on benghazi has been political partly because fox was operate iing as a wing of the republican party. >> ...

0 at least i think he did. but it also seems like the white house is still considering another grand bargain. >> i think what we need to do is lets go for the big deal. lets go for something that we can say for a 10, 20-year period, our country is on the right path. the only way that gets done is for republicans to step out and get mercilessly criticized and that means democrats are going to have to do tough things that they will get criticized by their left. >> if this sounds familiar, it shoul...

members of the inner circle. so when asked how to stand up, people should listen to this guy. >> we want to engage in entitlement reform. medicare, medicaid, these are chief drivers of the deficit. theres other spending we have to cut. >> hold on a second. i think that we all know what the chief drivers of our deficit are and have been. our projected deficit has driven by the wars and the bush tax cuts. entitlement programs dont even compete with these costs. plouffe went on to pin the...