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At a low rate of interest. here is problem. the rate of interest is going up. it's more expensive for america to borrow and we're at that tripping point where we're paying so much in interest on all of this debt that at some point people are going to say, you know, we're not going to lend you more money. for example, at the moment. we're paying 9 billion dollars a week in interest alone. and much of that's going overseas. by the election, it will be 10 billion dollars a week. >> clayton: more than every dollar we're taking in, owing more than the dollar is worth. interesting numbers as we take...

Excuse as to why the senate can't take it up. again, i don't blame the american people for the frustration. we are trying to go and find those opportunities for us to work together. >> chris: we talked about the -- on friday the house passed this extension of the payroll tax cut that so many of you opposed just a couple of months ago in december. you don't pay, you still don't in the bill that you had you still don't pay the $93 billion cost of extending the payroll tax cut. you pay for some of the other elements. just add the $93 billion to the deficit. a lot of your members doubt that it wil...

Excuse as to why the senate can't take it up. again, i don't blame the american people for the frustration. we are trying to go and find those opportunities for us to work together. >> chris: we talked about the -- on friday the house passed this extension of the payroll tax cut that so many of you opposed just a couple of months ago in december. you don't pay, you still don't in the bill that you had you still don't pay the $93 billion cost of extending the payroll tax cut. you pay for some of the other elements. just add the $93 billion to the deficit. a lot of your members doubt that it wil...

Washington, d.c. take it to the 11th hour. make everybody sweat it out. take it to the 11th hour. take it to chicken and come together at the last minute and do something. that's not what is happening. >> now it's going to the eighth hour. >> going backwards. >> the deadline is off a little bit. let's just cash in our chips now. we got to get home to the kids, babysitter is coming. >> just like the debt ceiling. they started out big. that t. was going to go big, big like a 5 trillion-dollar cut idea. last friday. we were down to 700 billion. >> the speaker's office the idea of not tackling med...

Thing that means the most? governor chris christie might carry the heaviest weight and then the second one is nikki haley. florida senator marco rubio is the third. raleigh, north carolina tops the bloomberg list of the best u.s. cities. and walton family is the richest on forbes 400 list. they are worth about $93 billion. that is saturday night's live takeoff on msnbc.com and "snl" returns tonight on msnbc. stay up for it. and lady antebellum "own the