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They don't cut entitlements as much as possible, they want to start putting up people to challenge them in the primaries. tucker, how do you think this might change things? >> i hope they stay true to their word. medicare and medicaid have grown more than 75 percent in the last ten years. the adult play here is to look at the debt. if you're an investor, thinking about investing in the united states, your singular concern, your main concern, is the debt level. it's too big. the country is broke. and so if you're going to entice people to invest in this, in the country, and you care about the l...

And he's got this idea he calls the big society. which is that we're all in together and have to work together. this is his big political idea. it's not really working as a political message. he's got to get that working next year to deal with that idea that he's thatcher. >> let me put it in perspective. things aren't that much worse. draw a comparison for us. how much are things worse here than in the united states? >> i think things are petr. the big uk problem was we had a very big deficit in 2009, 2010, but our debt level is a little lower than the u.s. is and also our debt was alonger. s...

Because nobody wants to vote for the debt level. a lot of senate democrats are concerned because they think it can hurt them. nobody expects at the end of the day boehner or republicans can actually use, consequences are too severe rattling the markets and world economy if they think, hey, wait a minute, these guys will inch close to the cliff. it's a game of chicken but nobody thinks either side is sincere. a poll we put up earlier, donald trump now tied for the lead according to one cnn poll. none of the contenders have announced they will run. up there hat 19%. mitt romney caught our eye ...

Terms of your safety and it goes from level one ald goes up to seven. and as you go up in each category, the debt level raises ten fold. level five, where we were at before, that was on par with the three mile incident of 1979. now they say fukushima is up there with 1986. what kind of consequences are there as a result of this? level 5, according to this scale, they call it an accident with wider consequences. several deaths can occur at a level 5 and severe damage to the reactor core. i'll advance this for you. taking you to a six, they consider this a serious accident with a significant rel...

>> this time of year we often see these hurnlg temperature swings driven by a jet stream moving from the winter mode to the summer mode. the battle between the warm and the cold is what's helping to fuel these severe storms. >> reporter: forecasters wash the danger is not over yet. a strong front is expected to move across the next section of the country over the next couple days, bringing potential for dangerous weather to about 40 million people across 20 states. francis coe, nbc news. the government may have averted a shutdown. baugh new battle is brewing, one that president obama hopes h...