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Prospects, they really thought they had a chance of making president obama a one-term president, and they made a really aggressive choice that year. they picked florida. tampa, florida. yes, tampa is best known as the death metal capital of america. tampa is also a major city in a major swing state. a pure tossup state with the diverse voting population, where any edge of any county could make the difference in the whole national election. here was a chance for a week long 3-d campaign ad in the middle of a critical background. offense, not playing it safe. they rolled out the biggest republic...

Gregg: a new study putting the federal debt into perspective. our nation is currently $17 trillion in the hole and count. there you see the debt clock and the harvard study on federal spending says if the debt was equally divide among american workers their share would be $106,000 each. the report find that food stamp use has surged 77% during the recession. the social security benefits are on track to be slashed 23% in less than 20 years. charles payne joining us now. you look at these numbers and it's frightening, it's discouraging. it's depressing. >> i don't know how many people watching t...

Reform and all of those things. this president likes his government super sized. this budget will never balance. and i think the president wants taxpayers to pay more so that washington can spend more >> what i read is he is asking for million in new spending. does that go anywhere? >> i don't think it does. last time he had a budget, not even any of the democrats voted for it. his policies make it harder to get back to work. >> $17.4 trillion is the debt clock. that is ridiculous. in three years from now, you will be $19 trillion? how is that acceptable to anybody? trying balance a book in wa...

Have happened, americans have shown they want the united states to pay their bills. >> and they want it tied to spending cuts. >> brad had a fact wrong. the deficit has been cut in half under obama. >> no, it has not. >> we are talking about the debt ceiling. if republicans want to keep going through this same show of having a debt ceiling showdown on a political issue they lose on over and over again, do it. >> the american people lose. the american people lose and the democrats continue to spend money we don't have. >> one at a time. go ahead, steve. >> republicans tried to have an actual re...

Intelligence on the ground. technical intelligence is great but there is that very, very important element of the american or the spy who can really get there on the ground to find out what is going on and it is so critical, that reporting is so critical to our national security in libya or any place else. jenna: this report says a lot of things and places a lot of blame but it doesn't say who is essentially accountable for this of course that will be an area of debate probably for the weeks and months ahead. peter, great to see you as always. >> good to be with you, jenna. jon: the first accr...