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And the tone was set early. august 2011 debate whenhe candidates assembled on showed their issue on raising taxes. watch norquist's people go here. >> i'll ask a question to everyone on the stage. say you had a deal a real spending cuts deal, 10-1 as byron says -- speaker you're already shaking your head. who on this stage would walk away from that deal? raise your hand if you'll feel so strongly you'd walk away on the deal. >> time toat list of greatness, other highlights and low heights of the gop primary season. michael steele who never had a year like this always a success seriously and th...

>> thank you for having me. >> before we get to you, steve we have been talking about this road tested strategy, which worked very well for the president in 2011. it seems like he has realized to get things done in washington you have to get out, take it out to the folks in america, you have to use the bullypull pit and then be do the back room negotiations with the republicans and make them fight for it. >> i think that was the strategy for the white house from august 2011 on. you had the debt ceiling debacle, where his approval rating in the wake of that went down to an all-time low, startin...

>> absolutely. >> that's why they're questioning the timing now. also there's some new concerns that his girlfriend may have been given access to classified information. with more now in the unfolding zanl, here's abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: dave petraeus' secret affair may never have been discovered if not for the threatening e-mails his lover sent to jill kelly, wife of a tampa surgeon, a long supporter of the military. officials say she was not romantically involved with petraeus, but was a family friend of petraeus and his wife. officials say the anonymous e-mails to kelly were so d...

Have far more serious troubles and problems than originally thought. treasury officials say they expect the government will hit the debt limit, by the end of this year. the current debt stands at $16.16 trillion. with the ceiling at $16 $16.39 trillion. the last battle over raising the debt limit in august 2011 came down to the wire as you may remember. euro zone unemployment hit a record high of 11.6% in september with a total of 18 18.5 million people out of work. now back to the next to vote question tonight. which one of these bluish states is most likely to swing red this year? text sr1 t...

Today we want to talk about that trip to the brink and why it matters in this election. just a reminder, it all started back in july 2011, filled with members who pledged in their campaigns to not raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances and true to their word, they brought congress and the country to the edge of defaulting on our national debt for the first time in our nation's history and business leaders across the country. these key law making men agreed by wide margins and chambers by bipartisan support. and now 67 days will be back, and msnbc contributor and our resident congressio...