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Did such a thing. but, this is temporary. there is many, many more steps to take and jan brewer and other governors who are protecting their citizens, protecting the nation as a whole were very, very thankful that they willing to go tow to tow and go all the way to the supreme court if need be and get this thing resolved. >> chris: let's turn to the bush tax cuts which are also becoming a big issue. the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. the obama white house is saying end the tax cuts and these are the tax cuts for the top 2% of all households in america. you can save $678 billion and if won't hu...

Small business income and 25% of our work force. that is going to be their plan in september to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> chris: let me talk with you, congressman boehner. you say and senator mcconnell says the answer is to extend the bush tax cuts. let's take a look at the cost here. extending just the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost $678 billion over ten years. extending all the tax cuts would cost $2.9 trillion. that will explode the deficit and president obama says today that for all of the talk about you guys as deficit hogs if you buck him when it comes to some of ...

Your floor. seriously, if i was to ask my audience for people to raise their hand if their can look at your name, just write it down, cenk uygar, is it? look there, sit there with it. raise your hand if you're at home right now if you can say it on the first attempt. i can do it. you don't count. i'm done. go ahead. >> so, the republican party keeps saying, hey, you know what, we care a lot about the defici deficits, we don't want to do deficit spending. that's not true. what they care a lot about is protecting the rich. for example, they want to do a $678 billion giveaway for the top 2% of th...

Clyburn let me jump in. i want to ask exactly about the issue, there is, congressman pence, a big vote, perhaps that week coming up on whether to extend unemployment benefits, and republicans say it must be paid for here, is the president's response: >> president barack obama: we have no problems spending money on tax breaks for folks at the top who don't need them and didn't even ask for them and object to helping folks laid off in this recession who really do need help. >> chris: congressman pence why is it extending unemployment benefits has to be paid for, accord to republicans, but extend...

Fox. it was swing and a miss time. >> how are you going to pay the $678 billion just on the tax cuts for people over -- making more than $200,000 a year? >> chris, you should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes. surely, congress has the authority and it would be right to, if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy, not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those costs. you do need to offset the cost of increased spending, and that's what republicans object to. but you should never have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on americans. >> got that?...