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Going legalize sports begtd but it hasn't happened because there is federal conflicts. superbowl weekend last year in vegas, $93 million was bet. millions were bet. >> eric: there is a federal law that prohibits the ice of marijuana? >> there is. >> why doesn't washington say we're going to allow in it our states? >> true, but the justice department is cracking down continues to hold raids. opponent who smoked it himself and joked, yeah, i inhaled, that was the point. he is cracking down on some of these states. >> eric: so why wouldn't the states with sports betting. >> think that is what new...

As an american express cardmember you can expect some help. but what you might not expect, is you can get all this with a prepaid card. spends like cash. feels like membership. a note on yet another shooting inside a place of learning. two people were shot this afternoon at the stevens institute of business and arts in st. louis. the details are developing, but one person reportedly a financial aid visce adviser, wa found in a stairwell. the suspect and male student then shot himself as police responded. both men are in critical condition. this latest episode of violence comes at the same mo...

And that's sort of the way things are in washington right now. you know -- >> but it's always the president's fault. he's the one who is cold. he's the one who doesn't socialize. he's the one who doesn't give them phone calls. he's the problem, never them. >> well, listen, they have accepted very few of his invitations like this. as you know. but i think there's something else that people really don't want to talk about. part of the political disconnect comes from the fact that a lot of these folk on the right just don't like this president. and we can talk about maybe some of the racial impli...

Said enough. >> in the end it's a threat they can't sustain. no one is going to defall. no one is going to allow the united states to not pay its bills. >> joining us now from washington is david corn, d.c. bureau chief for "mother jones" magazine and jared bernstein is a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities. good afternoon to both of you. jared, if president obama were the one holding the debt ceiling hostage, right as the housing, auto, and retail sectors seem to be rebounding, wouldn't the house republicans be calling the president's tactics those of a socialist who w...

Washington. >> i don't think they're calculus on this stuff is as rational as your question suggests, of course. but, again, if you actually get out of this beltway, and i try to do it as much as possible, and talk to people, the question i consistently get is why doesn't washington really care about the problems that we face? and when you mention recent housing numbers hupp up 7%, retp 5% over the past year -- >> chrysler mentioning a record sales number. >> it's an economy that is slowly improving. by the way, too slowly in my estimation and if anything you'd want your congress to be figurin...