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Raised it when we got there. >> well, it's certainly become now a risky way of running things because we now have people elected to office who don't even understand it. we'll have a lot more of this as the story goes on. bob, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. mitt romney makes it official. he's announced the formation of his presidential exploratory committee this morning via twitter. and glenn beck attacks another cable news host for crying. guess who. that attack against the kettle by the pot is tonight's rewrite.

We'll have a lot more of this as the story goes on. bob, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. mitt romney makes it official. he's announced the formation of his presidential exploratory committee this morning via twitter. and glenn beck attacks another cable news host for crying. guess who. that attack against the kettle by the pot is tonight's rewrite. [ male announcer ] millions of men 45 and older

Of the american government's relationship to debt. >> that was the first entry in what has now become the television debate about the debt ceiling, one that we've never seen before, bob. it's never been really covered by tv before. and the point about the filibuster, we've always found enough responsible votes in the house of representatives and in the senate to vote for it and get it passed. no one has ever filibustered it. we do have senators now who according to "the new york times", are thinking about filibustering it, which is the one way we could see -- it's one of the ways we could see ...

President on the center on budget priorities, bob greenstan. thanks for being here. >> good to be here. >> i want to drill down inside the debt ceiling here, about exactly what is at stake. and i want to begin, actually, by running a tape of something i said on election night after rand paul was elected to the united states senate. >> if he, and he is, as a single united states senator, empowered, empowered to prevent us from raising the debt ceiling, because it must be raised on a date certain at a particular time on the clock, or the united states government goes into default. if he filibust...

Washington thing, roll over, increase the debt limit without addressing the underlying problems. >> speaker boehner is far more aware of the risks associated with not raising the debt ceiling than american people. according to an nbc/"wall street journal" poll, only 16% of americans believe we should raise the debt ceiling. 46% say the government should not. when respondents were told the arguments for and against including that not raising the debt ceiling would result in the u.s. government actualidefaults debt payments, support doubled to 32%, but the percent who said we should not raise it...