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If you were to take every cents that everybody that makes more than a million dollars make, it's $726 billion which isn't even enough to close the deficit. the argument i make to her is you can't tax your way out of this problem. you have to cut spending. she says you know, we can tax a lot more than we are now and that the spending that needs to be cut is in different areas, but she certainly supports, for instance, in entitlements. she said you can cut -- there's a lot of waste in the system. a lot of excess money is going to the providers. she said you shouldn't raise the eligibility age fo...

A guarantee. there are other things in the discussion that i think the american people made fully aware understand what it means in their are daily lives. >> chris: you keep talking about raising taxes and talk about making the wealthy -- let me ask the question first. let me ask the question. you keep talking about making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. >> right. >> chris: the top 1% pay 37% of all federal income taxes. the top 5% pay 59 about percent of all federal taxes. if you took the total income of everyone making more than a million dollars a year and taxed it all at 100% th...

A guarantee. there are other things in the discussion that i think the american people made fully aware understand what it means in their are daily lives. >> chris: you keep talking about raising taxes and talk about making the wealthy -- let me ask the question first. let me ask the question. you keep talking about making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. >> right. >> chris: the top 1% pay 37% of all federal income taxes. the top 5% pay 59 about percent of all federal taxes. if you took the total income of everyone making more than a million dollars a year and taxed it all at 100% th...

>> shepard: she says the iranians kept her in solitary confinement for two weeks but never physically tortured her: if you are gay and want to fight for your country, you can't be open about it. the gay part that is it's the law in america. senate republicans blocked the legislation that would have changed that. it would have repealed don't ask, don't tell. democrats attached a provision on the defense spending bill $726 billion to fund the wars. they hoped the minority would be hesitant to vote against that bill. they weren't. every senate republican voted no. shannon bream live on capitol hi...

These people are worth negotiating with. they're reasonable. they can come around. if senator reid will just budge a little bit and come to an agreement on a reasonable way to proceed, we could potentially get the votes. so far he's not been willing to do that. now let's bring in nationally syndicated radio talk show host michael smerconish. we thought we would see this vote at 2:30. we understand it's been pushed back to 3:30. luke russert believes there may be a deal in the works here. what do you make of what's going on hat this point in the debate? >> let me piggy back on something you h...