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So it is pretty fraught for him to get too far into it. >> charles? >> let me see say that seeing tomko burn tells me how much we are going to miss him. he has the best hair whisker compensation in all of washington and it will be missed. look, i think obamas problem with obamacare that it is a disaster. i suspect what he will do is do a couple of antidotes there are people who have been helped, and he will find them and make it sound as if thats emblematic of the country it is not and i think i...

The appropriations and budget committees. representative ryan, thank you for joining me on this saturday morning. >> great to be with you. >> may i get your reaction, sir, of this phone call between the president and iranian positive. >> sure. positive first step. you can see by the recent reporting that its a very ditch issue in iran. its also a very difficult issue here. but i think its positive. i think we just continue to move forward, have these kinds of conversations. and im glad the presi...

Finance, by us. by taxpayeçz ì(lc% >> thats a striking scene for me. tim russert obviously a giant. i was sitting there, i was a guest. i was struck by everyone just throwing business cards around and working it. it was about them. i think that made the larger point, both placing us in hestry history and the character we are talking about. >> in 2008, barack obama planned to change the culture of washington. to what degree have he and the team around him fallen subject to the rules of this tow...

The commanders name and it has never become public. the irs reports its punishing two staffers who went to a conference that cost taxpayers more than 4 million bucks. officials say it has to do with a party in a private suite where somebody apparently broke the rules about giving out free food. the source says the two staffers are now on leave and may end up loading their jobs. the inspector general says the anaheim get away was one of more than 200 conferences that cost us taxpayers $50 million...

Earlier this year, tomko burn and jim imhoff voted against the package in hurricane sandy. he said this wont change his attitude, that it should be matched by spending offsets, that is, by cutting money from something else. many lawmakers disagree, including democratic senator mary landrieu from louisiana, a state who has seen its share of storms. same with tom coburn from oklahoma. coburn and his colleagues may not have to vote a funding bill this time around. they have more than $11 billion in...

Im the nerd. i just follow the numbers and this doesnt add up. meanwhile, with the cuts brewing, the speaker is suing. >> we should not have to move a third bill before the senate get offs their ass and begins to do something. >> one senator is trying to do that. republican tomko burn is outlining 1.4 billion bucks in savings. its a start. like the $179,000 position for the agriculture department government employee assistance division, and the $81,000 position offered for a staff assistant at t...

He know him. is he somebody who served this country is w veil valor. >> he ran into stubborn resistance over the weekend from senate republicans like lynndie graham and tomko burn. >> there would be little republican support. there will be very few votes at the end of the day. >> i cannot vote for chuck hagel. >> why? >> simply because of the positions that he has taken and some of the statements that he has taken. >> meanwhile, epa administer lisa jacksons decision to step down also has many do...

Compare our debt to gdp ratios, ezra, but when you make a equal comparison to us, to the countries of europe and around the world, we are actually at about 120% debt to gdp right now. and of course, that is internal and external, but external debt, we areover 100 now, we are in much worse shape than we recognize, im willing to do it incrementally, im willing to do it all at one time. what i want to do is solve the problem for the future of the country and if we do sdmarks the more we do of it, t...

He comes from a long line of dare devils in his family. >> its in his blood. >> meanwhile, your tax dollars hard at work. as always, senator tomko burn likes to comb through the budget and figure out where billions of your tanks pair dollars are being wasted he found a couple of winners this year says the senator. >> these are sort of jaw-dropping when you think that our taxpayer dollars are going to things like this. blue diamond growers. in 2009, they had $709 million of taxpayer money receive...

Center stage at the g-8 summit today. the meeting bringing together the worlds top leaders. president obama hosted them for a dinner at camp david last night. the main topic of conversation, diplomatic issues, especially concerning iran. among other things. they agreed the iranian government needs to disclose more. about its nuclear ambitions. same old story. president obama will hold a press conference from camp david later on this morning. so stay tuned. we will give you live coverage for that...