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They say austerity. this has gotten conflated with the republicans' position. you should reduce the deficit but not by cutting defense and absolutely not in any way by raising taxes. if it requires raising taxes even a dollar, then better not to reduce the deficit at all. better possibly even to default on the debt which brings all the terrible consequences of a debt crisis all at once artificially. something they don't typically believe that further government action to help out the economy probably isn't merited. if you think of these academics who have become associated with austerity, they...

Worried and there's hank johnson making the case. really, we can address helium, but nothing else? that paradigm, that dynamic to me seems to be the dynamic in washington. we shouldn't fight back against the sequester by fixing the stuff that bothers people the most, the sequester it's has to go because the idea of budget cutting our way to success has got to go. do you think there's an overalls austerity thesis driving politics right now? >> i don't think so so in this way. i think two things have cot gone con flated. the way most people describe it. the idea is if you reduce the deficit quic...

Obama team in the white house and their political team have been good to me for me years. i've worked with them early in the primaries in the last election. they have never pressured me to do anything. they have done nothing but encourage me. in this case i did talk with campaign officials, but they didn't force me to do anything. they had a good conversations with me. after having conversations with them especially after hearing the president's remarks on this issue where he was not condemning all of private equity. he was not condemning any particular firms. he was focusing in on a guy who i...

Obama team in the white house and their political team have been good to me for me years. i've worked with them early in the primaries in the last election. they have never pressured me to do anything. they have done nothing but encourage me. in this case i did talk with campaign officials, but they didn't force me to do anything. they had a good conversations with me. after having conversations with them especially after hearing the president's remarks on this issue where he was not condemning all of private equity. he was not condemning any particular firms. he was focusing in on a guy who i...

And when i saw that clip, people ask why i call my book "victory "victory "victory?" that was only 1961. >> at the very moment that new york was passing his its historic marriage legislation, the cardinal from new york chose to go to seattle to deal with the conference of bishops conference on the issue of clergy abuse. so even with the catholic church, it seems the issue of abuse by persons in positions of authority than they are with marriage of same-sex couples. and, so -- >> and those with hr two other things i should say that were con flated from the beginning, the con flags of either ped...