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The situation. our influence is limited. you know, even the money that we provide, the $1.3 billion in military aid, i believe that was the level that was set more than 30 years ago when we first started spending it, and it's never been adjusted for inflation. it's not worth what it was. it's laut a lot of its value. when you compare it to the more than $10 billion egypt is getting now from regional allies like saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, it's just not -- we're not the biggest player at the card table i guess you might say. so we have some long-time relationships there. particul...

>> do you feel responsibility as a business owner here for the community in a way that you wouldn't if maybe you opened your bar in chicago? >> very possibly. when people talk politics and how they feel about things, i always say i'm a is social capitalist because i want the freedom to run any business i want, but i need to take care of the community that allows my business to thrive. >> the concept here wasn't to make a lot of money. it's a lifestyle thing. i love what i'm doing. i love the interaction with people and things like that. i make enough money to live on. i'm happy. i have the lif...

Make is lower that is spent since 1955. >> bill: there is more money coming in to the feds than ever before. >> that is not the issue. you are complaining about people paying too much in taxes. we are paying less in taxes than we paid in decades. >> bill: because there is more individual taxes. you are doing as you always do, sleight of hand. i will pay for a little card table and you go out in front of fox news on sixth avenue and three things and take all the tourists money. >> i believe you are ignoring the percentage. >> bill: there is more taxes on everything. that is for people pay more ...

But, robert, isn't this the republican rampage against government, not through the ballot box because, of course, they lost the presidential election, but through the excuse of the sequester? >> look, i think in some ways it is. there are certainly programs that you enumerated there that they would be happy to watch any federal funding squeezed off of. i do think if you again look at their rhetoric from last fall around what's going to happen to military readiness and national security, they were holding their hands up and waving them furiously just a few months ago that we couldn't possibly l...

No matter where you live, you have surely seen and heard what happened in new england over the weekend. here is a "rachel maddow show" related sample. this is the home of massachusetts native and show producer. his folks still live there. as you can see there that is the top of the mail box. and oh, my stars, that is a stop sign, not a child-sized hip-length stop sign, a real life stop sign and the snow goes almost all the way to the top, just outside of boston yesterday. now this is summerville, massachusetts, before the roads were plowed, the sidewalks shovelled. while there was still a driv...