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Give to it colorado? >> for more, lets turn to joan walsh, editor at large salon. i just wrote down a comment. "impossible to think of doing anything else." my goodness have they had a change of heart, these republican governors. what do you make of it? >> well, first of all, i just want to say thats great news about wendy, ed. >> thank you, joan. >> you know, theyve had a change of heart, and its a good thing for the people of arizona. there are only a few of them. but its interesting, ed, beca...

>> for more, lets turn to joan walsh, editor at large salon. i just wrote down a comment. impossible to think of doing anything else. my goodness have they had a change of heart, these republican governors. what do you make of it? >> well, first of all, i just want to say thats great news about wendy, ed. >> thank you, joan. >> you know, theyve had a change of heart, and its a good thing for the people of arizona. there are only a few of them. but its interesting, ed, because it happens to be su...

Got defined up higher and higher. so as a result, parts of the fiscal cliff deal did help the working and the working poor, and what it did is to preserve a vast majority of the bush tax cuts, and that is not permanent and it is going to be a cornerstone of obamas legacy that he protected the tax legacy that his predecessor passed. >> and your point is about airlines. the government cracked down, and we got safer airlines. i talked to two businessmen in new orleans at the new orleans association...

Talk about obviously the unemploy unemployed whose benefits are going away. >> absolutely. the biggest -- the most dangerous thing, the fiscal cliff is the unemployment insurance. if we go over for a month we can sort of trick everything else. we can -- the irs can do some tricks to make it so you dont feel tax increases quickly. we can do tricks to make it so we dont lay off people at pentagon, we can furlough them. theres no trick with unemployment insurance. if we go over the cliff and dont d...

Welcome back to msnbcs continuing coverage of the fiscal cliff deadline. im chris jansing. for millions of out of work americans, the cliff has come early. the final emergency unemployment compensation has been given out for the year. without an extension, those participating in the program wont get any more assistance. and nearly a million more will be unable to collect any federal unemployment benefits in the first quarter of 2013. no deal also means no extensions on tax credits for the workin...

Is just that. its a holiday. theyre not supposed to last forever. you have unemployment is better. things are, comparatively speaking, better then they were when they first passed this so its time to let this go. youll have democrats worried that the payroll tax fund social security. theyre worried about compromising the integrity of social security. and its just something that folks arent talking about. this is something, as much as i agree that there are lots of parts of the so-called fiscal c...

Discretionary. would you be okay with the sequester not being part of the deal with that sequester taking place? >> its been very clear that theres too many pieces on the table for them all to get resolved in the next couple of days so i would -- i would expect that there might be a bump in this sequester but i dont think there will be a big restructuring detailed restructuring that will be figured out later on. but ill tell you that unemployment is a huge, immediate impact. in my home state of ...

For just rational people to go along with that. and of course under no circumstances can a lot of people understand $250,000. the president kicked it up to $400,000. and boehner said go to the devil, it should be a million dollars. and so we hope at some point the presidents going to realize that hes not dealing with people that are sincerely dealing with him and get back to what he campaigned for. >> well, are the republicans at all concerned that the nation must look on them protecting the int...

The president kicked it up to $400,000. and boehner said go to the devil, it should be a million dollars. and so we hope at some point the presidents going to realize that hes not dealing with people that are sincerely dealing with him and get back to what he campaigned for. >> well, are the republicans at all concerned that the nation must look on them protecting the interests of the super wealthy and those with deep pockets and big spending, protecting them at all costs, especially at the risk...

$400,000. and boehner said go to the devil, it should be a million dollars. and so we hope at some point the presidents going to realize that hes not dealing with people that are sincerely dealing with him and get back to what he campaigned for. >> well, are the republicans at all concerned that the nation must look on them protecting the interests of the super wealthy and those with deep pockets and big spending, protecting them at all costs, especially at the risk of hurting the working poor a...