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Nuclear device, it is end game. so the question is are we going to invest massively in layering layeringed -- layered missile defense. and here in hawaii -- it is an army ballistic missile short range and just successfully shot down a test missile over alaska. so we've simply got to get energized and get on with it. and the north koreans now have tested an icbm with the range to cover all of the continental united states. and they've tested one successful thermo nuclear device. so this isn't a hawaii problem. this is a u.s. national defense problem. >> from a national security perspective, jer...

Here we are up against another deadline, march 1. same thing happened with raising tax before the end of the year. the republicans acquiesced to the president. if you're the president, you're thinking, i'll just play that game again and i'll pin the republicans down and they'll have to do this because i'll just tell the american people that the republicans just are against tax hikes, which is not really the whole story. but will it be that the president will actually have to take accountability on this one because it was his idea and will he actually have to be the one that budgets this time t...

republicans already sniping about a democratic choice for the congressional super committee. democrats have named senators patty murray, max baucus, and john kerry to the debt panel. and republicans are complaining that murray shouldn't get a seat because she's too political. she's in charge of fund raising for democratic senate candidates. and 12 lawmakers are supposed to be named to the committee by tuesday. they're there to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late november. 10,000 extra police officers kept a lid on the violence in london last night. but rioting and loo...