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And the police are not, you know, it sounds like the city commission had their hands tied. >> well, we feel we came to the 10.8 reduction and we just couldn't come to an agreement with the city on that. >> let me ask you this. if the city came back to you now and said -- with another offer or the same offer, would you take it? >> with the same offer of? what we had at the table? yeah. >> because the city says you wanted a wage increase while the others had taken a decrease. all right. don with the bay city police officer. sir, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> thank you very mu...

So is this a lose-lose situation for the president? >> it's a tough position to be in, no question, lyn. you, in a sense, have a schizophrenic situation here which is people are concerned about the deficit and they're concerned about government spending. and, yet, they think, well, maybe we should be spending money to create some jobs. so most people, you know, they want to see action. but they're not sure what to do about it. and this is -- this is tough for a president. ronald reagan sought when unemployment was 10.8% in 1982 and the democrats picked up 26 house seats that year. that lasted ...

Anderson cooper, 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. dana, the bill is going to cost $33 billion. republicans have blocked a vote several times. it looks like it's probably going to pass tomorrow. don't you think we should extend unemployment benefits? i mean, who needs it more? >> i want to preface this by saying i don't know any republican who is against unemployment benefits. i think what the argument is here is what you just said. extending them. 99 weeks now. how far are we going to extend these? when people talk about having compassion for those who fell up on hard times. i know. i was raised b...

At the top of the hour, larry. >> larry: thanks. anderson cooper, 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. dana, the bill is going to cost $33 billion. republicans have blocked a vote several times. it looks like it's probably going to pass tomorrow. don't you think we should extend unemployment benefits? i mean, who needs it more? >> i want to preface this by saying i don't know any republican who is against unemployment benefits. i think what the argument is here is what you just said. extending them. 99 weeks now. how far are we going to extend these? when people talk about having compassion for those ...

This is what jumped out at me. to 2012. now it says the lowest it believes it will go in the presidential election year, 7.1%. if you're the president of the united states, boy, you hope the fed is dead wrong. >> right. you know what? you also think back to ronald reagan. in the midterm elections, reagan lost 26 seats in the house. unemployment was up. this is in '82. to 10.8%. when he was re-elected, unemployment was just over 7%. so if you're barack obama and you're not thinking about the congress, that's a whole other story, thinking about yourself, well, that might be low enough. >> right....