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Well that settles that. he and newt gingrich held a debate on saturday night and here are the highlights. it is cute how newt just lie there's and lets him lick his ear. that's the wrong tape. can we see the real one? >> before we leave the immediate -- the medicare discussion, define benefit plan or premium support. >> define -- you go first. >> that was the greatest moment in a great debate. >> new allegations specific and sure have you gloria allred there, but is this the damaging -- is this the shoe

Three leaders in the room having to look at each other and having to hash this out. everybody has got to put skin in the game, david. i gave on things i wanted. obviously the senate, democrat senate president in my state and speaker gave on things they wanted and we came to a compromise that didn't violate our principles. that's the key. there has to be a way to find principled outcome where people are also compromising. what the specifics will be are up to the president, the speaker and senator reid. they need to get in the room and finish this off. >> the president himself has a certain lead...

Facts. the facts are, the money is not there. >> governor christy wants union workers to agree to contribute more to their benefit plan. arthel? >> arthel: all right. thank you very much. >> rick: well, coming up, criticism is building against the obama administration for refusing to call wednesday's deadly attack on u.s. airmen in germany terrorism. >> we are looking into the individual who shot our service members. we are looking into his relationship with others. i don't know that we've made a judgment yet on whether it was someone acting alone or somebody acting in concert with others. >> ...

Our state government we take good care of our public sector employees. have a good benefit plan. we have got some of our own challenges in terms of the solvency of our pension system that i'm working on to have some shared sacrifice with our public employees. we are working our way through that but i think he is simply looking at what can i do to make my state more competitive as well as how can i balance my budget? that's a decision for the people of wisconsin. i can just tell you it's a great selling point when i recruit businesses to say i'm a right-to-work state. we don't have collective b...

It's a 401(k) essentially, a defined contribution plan rather than a defined benefit plan. believe me, we have looked at this every which way. but the unions in michigan were partners in identifying ways to cut. they actually, i mean, they bargained hard. don't get me wrong. but they also gave over 700, about $750 million in concessions. they were representing people on the ground who could see where waste was. and so at the bargaining table, we took in their ideas and implemented them and that's why we were able to achieve such great savings. >> governor, do you think the union representative...