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Will be. two top vote getters will move on to a general election. theres a lot of weird scenarios that come up when youve got lots of candidates on the same ballot. you can someone with 17%, 18%, being the next congress person. >> jane harman a force for cent trifts democratic policies. you lose another centrist democrat as part of the caucus. >> absolutely. >> as well as someone who has been a strong voice on foreign poll policy. >> the centrists, jane harman of the blue dogs. this is a group t...

Politics involved in judgeships? >> you know, john, i dont think thats undue cynicism. i think these are mixed political and legal judgments. and there is no point in pretending otherwise, and i think to look at the political profile, to look at the previous decisions of the judges who decide these cases is entirely appropriate and very revealing. and we have a united states supreme court that is essentially divided 4-4, liberals and conservatives, with anthony kennedy in the middle. and i think...

>> bill: is there any way that republican senators or some independent senators can get an up or down vote on obamacare? can they go around harry reid? >> there are a lot of ways that you in the senate as long as germane to the matter discussed before the senate. they have been pouring water on this. i said in my column on this, democrats have been pouring water on this idea of having to vote with the hope of two things. minimize defections from their own ranks in the house and senate and trying...

Trying to do far more than that, thats when you begin to lose people here. we are going to spend over a hundred billion dollars again this year in afghanistan, all of the problems weve talked about. the patience of the american public, i think, is running out on this. there are better ways of dealing in the longer term with al qaeda and the taliban having a long-term on the ground boots ground commitment in that country. >> before we get to financial reform, real quick, has the wikileaks documen...

The complaint from republicans is no promise here. this will add to the deficit. why was it important then to make sure it was paid for then but not now? >> this is a responsible way to do it. my job is to help make sure we can borrow to finance the obligations congress gives us. its a prudent, responsible way given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing america, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed and the support for small business. we want to d...

The complaint from republicans is no promise here. this will add to the deficit. why was it important then to make sure it was paid for then but not now? >> this is a responsible way to do it. my job is to help make sure we can borrow to finance the obligations congress gives us. its a prudent, responsible way given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing america, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed and the support for small business. we want to d...

Private companies. >> you talked about extending benefits to the unemployed. when the president did that back in november of last year he trumpeted the fact it was paid for and wouldnt add to the deficit. the complaint from republicans this time, no such promise here. this will add to the deficit. why was it important then to make sure it was paid for then but not now? >> this is a responsible way to do it. my job is to help make sure we can borrow to finance the obligations congress gives us. i...

Nationally. they really want to continue this. they said it has been voted on six times since 2008 and a continuation of the past and something to be done to help the nations unemployed. this will add to the already ballooning federal deficit. senator scott brown from massachusetts had an idea to take money from unspent stimulus fund money to do this and that was voted down and at the end of the day democrats will frame it as a victory and getting them, their jobless benefits that they so rightf...

Very quick 15 minutes after. democrats have 15 votes because republicans from maine have joined on to this legislation and approved it and why is it so important? well, it will bring jobless benefits to 2.5 million americans who have not had it since june 2nd and pay them retroactively meaning they will go back to june 2nd and have unemployment benefits through november. president obama talked about playing politics with these. its interesting, since june of 2008, these have been passed six time...

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