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Polarizati polarization, was there things that cropped up that said i'm out of here? >> it was a disappointment of 38 votes on the simpson-bowles budget alternative. there are a lot of things we fought about in my 18 years, nothing new. it's a partisan place. but when things like the highway bill, i mean, talking about building a road, gets bogged down, the farm bill that sort of blew up as we were leaving town yesterday and the student loan interest rate reduction, i mean, and, you know, the speaker's a friend of mine and he took to the floor and said do we have to fight about everything, tha...

About 4.5 million people come across the border. you have left office, 7 million people across the border. why couldn't you secure it? >> the economy got better. it's a long better. we had a fence, you know, in san diego. it worked. >> why didn't you put it all the way through? >> for one thing, back then, even the texas republicans didn't want it. >> you could have done it by executive order. >> i don't know if i could have or not. >> eric: dana is going mm-hmm. i'll get to you in a second. bob, bill clinton sounds like he was tough on immigration, but everything i heard since, including when...

That's been bogged down, absolute dysfunction. this morning, they did pass the tax cut holiday, that includes the unemployment benefit. but also they did the novel concept this morning of funding the entire united states government. listen to arizona senator john mccain and his comments on the senate floor about that. >> here we are again. a bill, 1,221 pages long, not one member of this committee has read it. 1,221 pages representing $915 billion of the taxpayer's money and here we are not with an amendment -- we do have minutes, we have 15 minutes. school buses, repository, $100

Battle with the administration going forward. so a lot of people are raising rates. so they are bumping in anticipation of what's coming down the road. we have more increases possibly. here is the thing. this is where the with it house made a huge mistake. the notion that insurance companies have to take 80% of the premiums and apply that to healthcare costs. here is the problem. healthcare costs continue to go up. in fact if we poured millions of people into a system that's already bogged down, can you imagine how much healthcare costs will go up. i have got to tell you i think healthcare cos...

Made it very clear that they believe gadhafi has to be gone but the u.s. and the allies aren't going to do that. no boots on the ground, no direct involvement. is that the way to go? does gadhafi have to go and if so how? >> you ask a very good question. this is based upon the drilling that -- and the terrible loss of life that americans have experienced with iraq and afghanistan. members of congress have watched these wars go on and on. boots on the ground and the idea of regime change that we would make a commitment to would be a bogged down situation but there is a plan. frankly we had good...