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It. social security should be under attack. harry reid said weeks ago there is no serious problem with social security. >> social security and the deficit should not be in one sentence. now, this country's not broke. we're a rich country. what is broke and bankrupt is so much of the debate inside washington. you just had two good democrats on. they see the problems. but until we've reset the debate and president obama must take leadership and not legitimize this republican narrative, that government spending is tanking the economy, we need more government spending to boost job creation and we ...

The up swing right now, ed. i think if you look at where the election was during the primary where prosser was up by 55% and kloppenberg only had 25%, and over that time we fought him to a standstill where before everyone knew who prosser was. he was an 11-year incumbent speaker of the assembly where kloppenberg was a complete unknown. we fought him to a standstill where it was within 1% and may end up winning. >> it should be pointed out that a number of democrats won on the local level as well as far as city elections and county elections. good to have you with us tonight. wisconsin state se...

Security. we need to rebuild our social contract. we need to tax too much of what we have, financial speculation, concentration of wealth, and we need to invest in too little of what we have -- education, infrastructure, more security for the working poor, the middle class. >> he's got the trend with him. it would seem he could easily make the case to the american people that their economic plan is working. job creation is going in the right place. and this is with the financial sector sitting on all these assets and not getting a whole heck of a lot of help. >> the last i heard $1.9 trillion....

14. where does that stand? >> well, i think they have given up on quite a few of them and are focusing on just three of them right now. those are against senator dave hansen up in green bay, very good guy, comes from a union background, state senator wurch down in kenosha, again, very good salt of the earth guy they're going after and then state senator halpern up in the north woods. they're going after them. i think they're focusing on them just because they don't want to be on defense defending their eight republicans. if they're on defense the entire time they'll lose. >> in the wake of thi...

All of the money spent on the military in every country in the world. in 2010 the world spent $1.6 trillion on military expenditures. here, you see, countries with relatively equal amounts of spending. germany, saudi arabia, russia, france, they're all pretty close aren't they? all between 2.5% to 4%. let's see the next highest percentage. well, it's china at just over 7%. and china is the second largest spender in the world when it comes to military activity and hardware. and of course this section, there it is, the big one, that represents you and me. america. we're number one. handing out $...