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The salt deductions. in orange county at least 40% of taxpayers claim the tax break. meanwhile democratic congressman bill pasqual of new jersey announced they plan to fight to reinstate the full salt deductions. a group of senate democrats have announced a legal challenge of matt whittaker as acting attorney general. they have filed their lawsuit in washington, d.c. they argue the move by the president violates the constitution because whittaker has not been confirmed by the senate. the lawsuit marks the third legal action challenging whittaker's appointment in less than a week. last week s...

President. we're going it hear from speaker boehner. we know the talks today fell apart. how are they to process what's happening at this point? will there be a government shutdown? >> well, there's two things going on right now, tamron. one is to get the 2011 budget in focus. we've had several rounds of cuts. we hope we can extend the time. we certainly don't want to shut down -- >> congressman pascrell accept my apology. speaker boehner is in front of the podium. let's take it. >> those conversations will continue. we've made clear that we're fighting for the largest spending cuts possible. ...

We're not going to cut those things that we think are absolutely vital to the growth of the american economy and putting people back to work, and that means we've got to make some choices, and that is not just true for us. that's true for the republicans as well. nobody gets 100% of what they want, and we have more than met the republicans halfway at this point. okay? thank you very much, everybody. >> president obama in a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room following his meeting with house speaker john boehner and senator harry reid. you know, it's very interesting the presid...

No one is going to come save us. everyone of us owes more than $25,000 a year on interest on our national debt. we are going to spend more on interest than we spend on education, transportation, energy and several other degrees kregs nare reprograms. if interest rates rise, they are very low right now, they do exbe specht them to rise, we could be in even worse shape as far as what we owe on our interest. john boehner is allowing each lawmaker to be heard on efforts to cut spending owl in an attempt to make budget cuts. our next guest says when tightening our belts there are certain funds that...

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