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Governments as a threat after 9/11 and financial crisis of 2007 worsened. two traumas where the country looked to uncle sam for security. >> there's clear evidence americans in times of crisis want to believe in their government and do tend to have more fatith in their government to do the right thing. >> siting big labor as the nation's biggest threat, 5%, record low. that hasn't cracked double digits since 1995. analysts say that reflects the broader decline of organized order in american life in recent decades. senate is trying to wrap up the preholiday work with a contentious debate over...

Third round. it was 2011 and 2012 and what happened, if we can kind of slow this down for a moment, in 2011 the first debt ceiling negotiation, boehner swept the table. he got all win, $2.4 trillion in spending cuts. obama essentially got nothing. in the second round in 2012, obama swept the table and got $625 billion in new revenue, and there were just minuscule, almost unmeasurable spending cuts. so you have an environment that is winner take all. first round it's boehner. second round, it's obama. and they're in this face-off where they don't sit down and say like other people do in negotia...

>> that is where my relationship began in las vegas during the caucuses prior to the last federal election. tell me what you know. >> yeah, they're all looking for you out here. this bit about the budget deficit is something out there many politicians in washington feel like voters have a hard time with and may not want to grapple with. but this new interactive survey problems that's wrong. this was done by a group called the program for public consultation at the university of maryland. they took a computer program, they had more than 2,000 people all over the country including here in nevada...

Of this, others are guilty of it is a large portion of the tests we order every day aren't for patients. they're for doctors. and the reason they're there is because we are risk averse to the tort system and extortion system that's out there today in health care. and there are a lot of ways to fix that, but i just went through last night. if you add up what tomson reuters, which looked at all the studies that have been done, they say between $625 billion and $850 billion of health care dollars a year are wasted. so it seems to me if cost is the number one thing that's keeping people from getti...

Is because we are risk-averse to the tort system and extortion system that's out there today in health care. and there are a lot of ways to fix that, but i just went through last night, if you add up what tomson roit respect, who looked at all the studies that have been done and combined them in, they say between $625 billion, and $850 billion a year of health care dollars are wasted, so it seems to me if cost is the number one thing that's keeping people from getting care, then the efforts of us as we go after cost ought to be to go to those areas where the cost is wasted. and there's a philo...