455 Billion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> and worked for him. oh, boy. >> helping unemployment right there. >> he said it was reckless, irresponsible and unpatriotic he said five years to fix it, broke that promise, defend it. >> i don't think that's the case at all. he doesn't have a willing partner to work with who is coming to the table with real ideas. the republican party is completely intellectually bankrupt right now and completely -- >> does the president sign the spending bill? >> the very few bills that come to his desk. >> not the very few -- go ahead. >> what's that? >> in 2008, and i agree, i am a republican, but i thi...

>> and worked for him. oh, boy. >> helping unemployment right there. >> he said it was reckless, irresponsible and unpatriotic he said five years to fix it, broke that promise, defend it. >> i don't think that's the case at all. he doesn't have a willing partner to work with who is coming to the table with real ideas. the republican party is completely intellectually bankrupt right now and completely -- >> does the president sign the spending bill? >> the very few bills that come to his desk. >> not the very few -- go ahead. >> what's that? >> in 2008, and i agree, i am a republican, but i thi...

>> well, with the highlight really of the morning has been testimony called by the defense of two pennsylvania state investigators who work order this case. one of them is now retired. the defense grilling them over their techniques in how they questioned alleged victims in this case. in particular, they concentrated on one, accuser number four. and the defense was suggesting to the jury that these investigators were in essence telling the victims what to say. encouraging them. tainting them by talking about what other victims alleged victims may have said. the defense attorney sayin...

Reagan was elected in a landslide. there's a greater truth that the t.a.r.p. bailout started with bush, but the problem with nancy's point is that barack obama doubled down on all of the bad policies. he doubled down on auto bailouts, he doubled down on t.a.r.p.. the deficit was 455 billion, not good when he took office, now it's 1.6 trillion. the stimulus plan was suppose today lower unemployment below 8%, it's still hovering around 9%. martha: you know, i think so much is going to come down to how people feel when they go in there and pull that lever in terms of whether or not the country's ...

You know, my friend uses this great example. salt was a strategic commodity for thousands of years, the only way to preserve food, the only way to preserve meat. it was a really big deal. countries went to war over salt mines. and with the coming of the electricity grid, that ended in a few years. frozen meat was not only cheaper but tasted better. so refrigeration destroyed salt's strategic role. we still use it, we put it on the sidewalks in the winter, eat it on corn on the cob, but nobody looks at the salt shaker when they go to the table and wonder if we're salt independent. >> let's just...