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Would wonder who's the one that messed up our 401(k) plans? we have billionaire real estate mogul sam zell out of 1% central casting. >> the, quote, 1% are being pummeled because it's politically convenient to do so. the problem is the world and this country should not talk about envy of the 1%. they should talk about emulating the 1%. the 1% work harder. the 1% are much bigger factor in all forms of our society. >> let me tell you something about sam zell. he bought the "tribune" company in 2008 for $8.2 billion. it was widely regarded. i reported on it at the time as an unsustainable debt st...

Billion worth of activity to something that was worth $3 billion. greece is about the same as dallas. we have attached trillions of dollars of debt. we have allowed them to attach to themselves trillions of dollars in debt to an economy the size of dallas-ft. worth. then we believe that instead of acknowledging the total failure of that system into the debt structure and restructuring that debt the same way you're going to have to do in the mortgage market. you can't solve a mortgage problem with a $25 billion payoff to a few attorney generals so you can win 2012. not going to happen. anymore ...

>> we got together to say a big thank you to our staff that worked really, really hard. and i'm afraid it's nothing more exciting than the fact that we wanted to say thanks to people who put in a lot of work. >> gretchen, there's many of us still working on this. i know pat is part of it. we are working in a bipartisan way. we know we need to go big and look at our debt structure and many of us are working at it every single day. >> all right. that's good to hear and i started out by saying bipartisanship may be alive again with the two of you working on this. maybe we can tackle the debt toge...

john king, chief national correspondent and host of "jk usa" and sheila behr, former children of -- chairman of the fdic. before we talk about this i want to bring in christine romans to explain why this has been such an important deal in the united states. while i've been out here in cannes, the u.s. has been watching very closely what's going on here and what's been going on in athens, christine. >> there's a growing understanding that u.s. and europe are in it together. anything that is negative for greece and the eu, is not good for america. europe is america's number one trading...

This is another poll that they with did and goes to the big government issue, i think conservatives have made ground on this issue, it's reflected in this poll. 60 percent say that big government is a greater potential threat to the country's future. and brad, you know, a lot of what the president has in mind and that he's pushing through with some of these executive orders don't go to shrinking the government, that's for sure. >> absolutely no. and the 800-pound gorilla which has yet to surface in this campaign is going to be in june when the supreme court comes back and t strikes down omabac...